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Baron Ferdinand Jakob Heinrich von Mueller
Biography
Sir Ferdinand Jakob Heinrich von Mueller KCMG (1825–1896), botanist, trained in pharmacy and botany in his native Germany before emigrating to Adelaide in 1847.
1 portrait in the collection
Ferdinand Jean Joubert
Biography
Ferdinand Jean Joubert was a photographer and engraver. Born in Paris, Joubert studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and began working as an engraver around 1830.
1 portrait in the collection
Frederick Schoenfeld
Biography
Frederick Schoenfeld was born in Switzerland and came to Australia in 1858 as a trained lthographer.Between 1859 and 1862 he worked as illustator and lithographer for publications prepared by the National Museum of Victoria.
1 portrait in the collection
Ernest Giles
Biography
Ernest Giles (1835-1897), explorer, came to Australia at the age of fifteen, settling in Adelaide.
1 portrait in the collection
William Henry Harvey
Biography
William Henry Harvey (1811-1866), botanist, formed a boyhood passion for natural history which was encouraged at Ballitore School, County Kildare.
1 portrait in the collection
Anna F. Walker
Biography
Anna Frances Walker (1830–1913), botanical artist and collector, was one of the thirteen children of Thomas Walker, a high-ranking colonial public servant, and his wife Anna Elizabeth, the daughter of merchant and landowner John Blaxland.
1 portrait in the collection
William Dakin
Biography
William Dakin (1883-1950), zoologist, studied in his native England and, as an Exhibition scholar, in Kiel, Germany.
1 portrait in the collection
Pansy Montague
Biography
Pansy Montague, ‘La Milo’ (c. 1885-unknown) appeared as a chorus girl and actress in Melbourne from about 1898, and in 1901 understudied Nellie Stewart in Sydney.
10 portraits in the collection
Robert Brown
Biography
Robert Brown (1773–1858) is considered ‘the father of Australian botany’.
2 portraits in the collection