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Charles Fox after Sir Thomas Lawrence
Alexander MacLeay, c. 1845
Portrait, engraving on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2009
Alexander Macleay
Biography
Alexander McLeay (aka Macleay) (1767-1848), public servant and entomologist, acquired an interest in insects while working as a clerk in London.
1 portrait in the collection
William Macleod after Freeman Brothers
William Macleay, 1885
Portrait, lithograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2014
Tsering Hannaford
Stephanie Alexander AO, 2023
Portrait, oil on canvas
Commissioned with funds provided by Marilyn Darling AC 2023
Robert Hannaford AM
Alexander Maurice Ramsay, 1978
Portrait, oil on composition board
Gift of Janet, Andrew, Kathryn and Eleanor Ramsay, daughters and son of Alexander Maurice Ramsay and Amy Jane Ramsay 2010. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Graham Thorley
Alexander 'Jock' Sturrock, 1962
Portrait, oil on canvas
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 1999
Sir William Dargie CBE
D.A.S. Campbell (David Alexander Stewart Campbell), 1963
Portrait, oil on canvas
Gift of Dr Mary Newlinds and Sheena Simpson in memory of their father, D.A.S. Campbell, 2014
William Daniell after George Dance
Alexander Dalrymple, 1809
Portrait, soft ground etching on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by the Liangis family 2012
Sir Leslie Ward, Vincent Brooks, Day & Son, Vanity Fair Magazine
First Conservative Whip (Sir Alexander Fuller-Acland-Hood Bart MP), 1903
Portrait, chromolithograph on paper
Gift of Ronald Walker 2002
Sir William John Macleay
Biography
Sir William John Macleay (1820-1891), pastoralist, politician, collector and promoter of science, had just begun to study medicine in his native Scotland when family circumstances dictated his migration to New South Wales.
1 portrait in the collection
Tom Roberts
Sketch portrait of Sir Alex Onslow, 1896
Portrait, oil on canvas
Purchased with funds provided by L Gordon Darling AC CMG 2006
Alexander Fox and Co
Mr and Mrs Case, 1864
Portrait, albumen photograph on carte de visite
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2010
Sir Leslie Ward, Vincent Brooks, Day & Son, Vanity Fair Magazine
a Traveller (2nd Baron Lamington), 1892
Portrait, chromolithograph on paper
Purchased 2015
Hong Fu
Alex Miller, novelist, 2022
Portrait, oil on canvas
Gift of the artist 2022
Rick Amor
Alex Miller, 1992
Portrait, pencil on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2005
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program
Rick Amor
Alex Miller, 1992
Portrait, pencil on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2005
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program