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![Dowling family portrait [Selina, Jane, Leura and Elizabeth (Bessie) Dowling]](/files/5/b/7/3/i16148-sl.jpg "Dowling family portrait [Selina, Jane, Leura and Elizabeth (Bessie) Dowling]")
![Dowling family portrait [Selina, Jane, Leura and Elizabeth (Bessie) Dowling]](/files/5/b/7/3/i16148-ths.jpg "Dowling family portrait [Selina, Jane, Leura and Elizabeth (Bessie) Dowling]")
Dowling family portrait [Selina, Jane, Leura and Elizabeth (Bessie) Dowling], c. 1862
an unknown artist
Portrait, ambrotype
Gift of Malcolm Robertson in memory of William Thomas Robertson 2018. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
![Maria Dowling and her children Leura, Bessie, Selina, Jane, Jack, Ben and Joe Dowling [Selina Dowling, Jane Dowling, Maria Jane Dowling (née Ware), John Ware Dowling, Joseph Dowling, Benjamin Dowling, Elizabeth (Bessie) Dowling, Leura Dowling]](/files/a/0/3/f/i16150-sl.jpg "Maria Dowling and her children Leura, Bessie, Selina, Jane, Jack, Ben and Joe Dowling [Selina Dowling, Jane Dowling, Maria Jane Dowling (née Ware), John Ware Dowling, Joseph Dowling, Benjamin Dowling, Elizabeth (Bessie) Dowling, Leura Dowling]")
![Maria Dowling and her children Leura, Bessie, Selina, Jane, Jack, Ben and Joe Dowling [Selina Dowling, Jane Dowling, Maria Jane Dowling (née Ware), John Ware Dowling, Joseph Dowling, Benjamin Dowling, Elizabeth (Bessie) Dowling, Leura Dowling]](/files/a/0/3/f/i16150-ths.jpg "Maria Dowling and her children Leura, Bessie, Selina, Jane, Jack, Ben and Joe Dowling [Selina Dowling, Jane Dowling, Maria Jane Dowling (née Ware), John Ware Dowling, Joseph Dowling, Benjamin Dowling, Elizabeth (Bessie) Dowling, Leura Dowling]")
Maria Dowling and her children Leura, Bessie, Selina, Jane, Jack, Ben and Joe Dowling [Selina Dowling, Jane Dowling, Maria Jane Dowling (née Ware), John Ware Dowling, Joseph Dowling, Benjamin Dowling, Elizabeth (Bessie) Dowling, Leura Dowling], c. 1859
an unknown artist
Portrait, ambrotype, hand coloured
Gift of Malcolm Robertson in memory of William Thomas Robertson 2018. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Maria Jane Dowling, c. 1862
an unknown artist
Portrait, ambrotype
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Malcolm Robertson in memory of William Thomas Robertson 2018
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program
An evening at Yarra Cottage, Port Stephens, 1857
Maria Brownrigg
Portrait, watercolour and collage on paper
Purchased 2017
Mary Ware, c. 1854
Robert Dowling
Portrait, oil on canvas on board
Purchased with funds provided by Mary Isabel Murphy and Rosalind Blair Murphy 2014
Leura Dowling, c. 1861
an unknown artist
Portrait, ambrotype
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Malcolm Robertson in memory of William Thomas Robertson 2018
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program
Jack Thompson, 2013
Dr Julie Dowling
Portrait, synthetic polymer paint and red ochre on canvas
Purchased 2015
Richard Walley, 2015
Dr Julie Dowling
Portrait, synthetic polymer paint and red ochre on canvas
Commissioned with funds provided by Neil Archibald and Alan R. Dodge AM, Brandon and Angela Munro, Dr Walter Ong and Graeme Marshall 2015
Adela Russell Walker, 1864
William P. Dowling
Portrait, albumen print photograph, carte de visite format on paper on card
Purchased 2022
Jeremiah Ware, c. 1854
Robert Dowling
Portrait, oil on board
Purchased with funds provided by Mary Isabel Murphy and Rosalind Blair Murphy 2014
The Hon. Sir James Dowling, c. 1860
Henry Samuel Sadd
Portrait, mezzotint on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2012
Maria Windeyer, c. 1860s
an unknown artist
Portrait, albumen photograph, hand coloured
Gift of Joanna Russell Maher (née Windeyer) 2018
Maria Polly Cutmore, 2021
Jessica Hromas
Portrait, pigment print on Hahnemühle photorag metallic paper
Purchased 2022
Maria, 1986 (printed 2013)
Michael Riley
Portrait, inkjet print on paper
Purchased 2013
![A Prima Donna [Maria Palmieri]](/files/3/5/d/7/i13472-sl.jpg "A Prima Donna [Maria Palmieri]")
![A Prima Donna [Maria Palmieri]](/files/3/5/d/7/i13472-ths.jpg "A Prima Donna [Maria Palmieri]")
A Prima Donna [Maria Palmieri], 1874
Tom Durkin, The Weekly Times
Portrait, lithograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2018
Maria Windeyer, c. 1865-1868
Freeman Brothers after Edwin Dalton
Portrait, albumen paper carte de visite on brown paper studio folder
Gift of J.B. Windeyer 2018