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Adrian Feint
Biography
Adrian Feint (1894-1971) studied at the Sydney Art School with Julian Ashton after having served in the AIF in France and Belgium in World War I, during which he was praised for gallantry.
1 portrait in the collection
Adrian Lawlor
Biography
Adrian Lawlor, critic and artist, came to Australia from his native England at the age of about twenty.
2 portraits in the collection
Adrian Rawlins
Biography
Adrian Rawlins (1939-2001), poet, performer and promoter, grew up in a Jewish household in Caulfield and St Kilda.
1 portrait in the collection
Lord Adrian Louis Hope
Biography
Lord Adrian Louis Hope was Governor Victoria at the Constitutional Convention, Sydney 1891.
1 portrait in the collection
Rt Hon John Adrian Louis Hope KT GCMG GCVO PC
Biography
Rt Hon John Adrian Louis Hope KT GCMG GCVO PC, 7th Earl of Hopetoun (1860–1908) was the first governor general of Australia.
3 portraits in the collection
Samantha Cook
Biography
Samantha Cook is a Nyikina woman from the north-west Kimberley region of Western Australia who is based between Los Angeles and Australia.
1 portrait in the collection
Thomas Cook
Biography
Thomas Cook produced portraits for the Gentleman's Magazine and frontispieces for book publishers, as well as a number of single plates in different genres for Boydell.
1 portrait in the collection
Captain James Cook RN
Biography
James Cook (1728-1779), maritime explorer, surveyed and claimed the east coast of Australia on the first of his three great voyages of discovery in the Pacific.
12 portraits in the collection
Captain James King
Biography
James King (c. 1750-1784), naval officer, was born in Lancashire and educated at Clitheroe Grammar School before entering the navy in 1762.
1 portrait in the collection
Lawrence Daws
Biography
When John Webber R.A. (c. 1752-1793), the son of a Swiss sculptor, living in London, submitted his work to the Royal Academy Schools, one of the first to admire his paintings was Dr Daniel Solander, the Swedish naturalist who had accompanied Cook and Banks on the first voyage.
1 portrait in the collection
John Webber
Biography
When John Webber R.A. (c. 1752-1793), the son of a Swiss sculptor, living in London, submitted his work to the Royal Academy Schools, one of the first to admire his paintings was Dr Daniel Solander, the Swedish naturalist who had accompanied Cook and Banks on the first voyage.
5 portraits in the collection
Omai
Biography
Omai (Mai) (c. 1750-1778), the first Polynesian to visit Britain, was a young man of middling social standing who volunteered to sail from Huahine to England with Captain Furneaux on the Adventure (the ship accompanying James Cook's Resolution on Cook's second voyage of discovery (1772-1775).
2 portraits in the collection
Daniel Solander
Biography
Daniel Solander (1733-1782), naturalist, was a student of Carl Linnaeus, the Swede who devised and systemised the classification of plants and animals used today.
3 portraits in the collection
Terence Bogue
Biography
Terence Bogue specialises in the photography of art and craft for artists, galleries and museums.
1 portrait in the collection
Thomas Forster Knox
Biography
The Knox's third son, Thomas Forster Knox (1849-1919) followed his father and older brother into business, and became prominent in the Commercial Banking Company of Sydney.
1 portrait in the collection
Jacob Nash
Biography
Jacob Nash (born 1982) is a Daly River artist and designer and was Head of Design at Bangarra Dance Theatre between 2010 and 2023, working on over 20 productions.
2 portraits in the collection