© National Portrait Gallery 2024
King Edward Terrace, Parkes
Canberra, ACT 2600, Australia
Phone +61 2 6102 7000
ABN: 54 74 277 1196
Aborigines at Oyster Cove, Tasmania, 1858 (printed 1890s)
Francis Nixon
Portrait, glass plate negative
Purchased 2011
Flora and Fauna, Giara: White Cockatoo
Luther Cora
Image
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker OM
Biography
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker OM GCSI CB MD FRS (1817-1911), botanist, explorer and medical doctor, visited Australia as a member of James Clark Ross's Antarctic expedition of 1839 to 1843.
2 portraits in the collection
Joseph Dalton Hooker, c. 1880s
an unknown artist
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by L Gordon Darling AC CMG 2009
William Jackson Hooker
Biography
William Jackson Hooker (1785–1865), botanist, was the first Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in which capacity he had significant influence on the study of Australian flora.
1 portrait in the collection
Téa-Anna Parvathy Murrin – Australian cultural identity
Franca Turrin
Image
Mr. Zee
Luke Ray
Image
The Quarry
Tajette O'Halloran
Image
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
Glenn Murcutt
In their own words
In their own words
Recorded 2017
Frances Perry
Biography
Frances Perry (1815-1892) met Charles Perry through her brother, a student at Cambridge, and after they married, the couple lived at St Paul’s Cambridge, where he was vicar, for six years.
1 portrait in the collection
Prince Charles Edward Stuart
Louis Gabriel Blanchet
Image
Baron Ferdinand von Mueller, c. 1890
Charles Troedel after Robert Wendel
Portrait, lithograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2013
John Wolseley
Biography
John Wolseley was born in Somerset, England in 1938 and moved to Australia in 1976.
3 portraits in the collection
Sir Joseph Banks, c. 1788
John Raphael Smith after Sir Benjamin West
Portrait, mezzotint on paper
Purchased 2010
Ryan Presley: Paradise won
Current exhibition
Marri Ngarr artist Ryan Presley's site-specific commission Paradise won is prominently positioned at the Gallery’s entrance. This ambitious new work invites conversations about the ongoing legacies of colonisation and celebrates First Nations survival and autonomy.