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John Connell
Biography
John Connell (c. 1759–1849), free settler, merchant and landowner, came to New South Wales aboard the Earl Cornwallis, which arrived in Sydney in June 1801.
1 portrait in the collection
Joshua Ross
Biography
Joshua Ross (b. 1981) excelled at athletics as a child, but didn't take up sprinting in earnest until 2000, inspired by watching the Sydney Olympics on television.
1 portrait in the collection
Ross Watson
Biography
Ross Watson specialises in interpolating representations of lithe semi-naked men into copies of paintings by masters such as Vermeer, Ter Borsch, David and Bronzino.
2 portraits in the collection
Ross Wilson
Biography
Ross Wilson (b. 1947), musician and producer, started playing in bands as a schoolboy, fronting the Pink Finks and the Party Machine in the late 1960s.
3 portraits in the collection
Ross Honeysett
Biography
Ross Honeysett (b. 1953) is a professional photographer who began his career in London and Paris, shooting for fashion magazines Vogue, Tatler, Glamour and Elle.
2 portraits in the collection
Robert Ross
Biography
Robert Ross (1792–1862), clergyman, studied medicine in his native Edinburgh before being ordained into the Church of Scotland in 1818.
1 portrait in the collection
Ross Edwards
Biography
Ross Edwards (b. 1943), composer, became determined upon a life of composition as a child.
1 portrait in the collection
Thomas Heathfield Carrick
Biography
Thomas Heathfield Carrick, miniature painter, grew up in Carlisle, where he trained and traded as a chemist, painting miniatures in his spare time.
1 portrait in the collection
Emily Fairfax
Biography
Emily Ross (née Fairfax) (1832-1871) was the eldest child of newspaper publisher John Fairfax - who founded the Fairfax news dynasty in Sydney in 1841 - and his wife Sarah.
1 portrait in the collection
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
Robert Kermode
Biography
Robert Quayle Kermode (1812-1870), politician, was born on the Isle of Man and educated at Castletown.
1 portrait in the collection
Ern McQuillan Senior
Biography
Ern McQuillan (Senior) (1905-1988), boxing trainer, was born in Newtown, Sydney, and worked there all his life.
1 portrait in the collection
Sir William Northam CBE
Biography
Sir William Northam CBE (1905-1988), yachtsman, won the gold medal in the 5.5 m class event at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics.
1 portrait in the collection
Sir Ian McLennan KBE
Biography
Sir Ian McLennan KBE (1909-1998) was chairman of BHP from 1971 to 1977.
1 portrait in the collection
Stan Coster
Biography
Stan Coster (1930-1997) was one of Australian country music's greatest songwriters.
1 portrait in the collection
Sahlan Hayes
Biography
Born in the United Kingdom, Sahlan Hayes lived with his family in the USA, New Zealand and the United Kingdom before settling in Australia.
9 portraits in the collection