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Ludwig Becker
Biography
Ludwig Becker (1808-1861), was an artist, naturalist and explorer. He was born in Germany and trained as an artist there, and after arriving in Tasmania in 1851 he settled in Melbourne.
1 portrait in the collection
Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig Leichhardt
Biography
Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig Leichhardt (1813-c. 1848) went to school and university in Germany but the range of his interests was such that he never actually graduated (he was later called Dr Leichhardt in recognition of his broad scholarship).
1 portrait in the collection
Mark Lang
Biography
Mark Lang has worked as a photographer for twenty-five years and specialises in large format panoramic photographs of Australian landscapes.
2 portraits in the collection
John Thomas "Jack" Lang
Biography
John Thomas Lang (1876–1975) served two terms as premier of New South Wales in the 1920s and 1930s.
5 portraits in the collection
Captain Francis Edward de Groot
Biography
Francis Edward de Groot (1888-1969) was born in Dublin and came to Australia in 1910.
1 portrait in the collection
François Jacques Dequevauvillier
Biography
François Jacques Dequevauviller was the son of the French engraver Nicolas-Barthelemy François Dequevauviller (1745–1807).
1 portrait in the collection
Hon. Sir John Forrest GCMG
Biography
Sir John Forrest (1847-1918), explorer and politician, trained as a surveyor and led an 1869 expedition in search of Ludwig Leichhardt.
2 portraits in the collection
William Morris Hughes
Biography
William Morris Hughes (1862-1952) was Labor and National Party Prime Minister of Australia from 1915 to 1923.
4 portraits in the collection
George Finey
Biography
George Finey, one of Australia's best-known cartoonists, was born in Auckland and was selling drawings to local newspapers by the time he was 14.
1 portrait in the collection
Klaus Friedeberger
Biography
Klaus Friedeberger (1922-2019) fled Germany for England at the age of sixteen, and the next year found himself on the Dunera bound for internment in Australia.
3 portraits in the collection
Frederick E. Du Faur
Biography
Frederick Eccleston du Faur (1832–1915), environmentalist, public servant and arts patron, came to Australia from his native London in 1853.
1 portrait in the collection
William Strutt
Biography
William Strutt arrived in Melbourne in 1850 having undertaken his training in art in Paris in the late 1830s.
1 portrait in the collection
Gordon Powell AM KCSJ
Biography
Gordon Powell AM KCSJ (1911-2005) Presbyterian minister, broadcaster and writer, is regarded as one of the most influential Australian Presbyterians.
1 portrait in the collection