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Sir Samuel Walter Griffith
Biography
Sir Samuel Walter Griffith (1845-1920), chief justice and premier, was born in Wales and came to Australia aged eight with his minister father and family.A top student, at the University of Sydney Griffith excelled at classics and mathematics; the Mort scholarship enabled him to travel to Europe.
2 portraits in the collection
William Griffith
Biography
William Griffith (c. 1808-1870) emigrated to Australia around 1840 and moved to Parramatta with his wife, Susan, whom he had married ten days after landing in Sydney.
1 portrait in the collection
Moses Griffith
Biography
Moses Griffith, topographer, draftsman, watercolourist and engraver, spent his life in the service of Thomas Pennant, antiquarian and amateur naturalist; although engaged as a servant, he was employed by Pennant as a full time artist from 1771.
1 portrait in the collection
Frances Samuel
Biography
Frances Samuel (1818-c. 1898) was a member of one of early Sydney's most significant Jewish settler families.
1 portrait in the collection
Samuel Woolf
Biography
Samuel Johnson Woolf, American painter, lithographer and illustrator, was born in New York City and named after the English essayist Samuel Johnson.
1 portrait in the collection
Sir Samuel Wilson
Biography
Sir Samuel Wilson was elected to the British House of Commons in 1886.
1 portrait in the collection
Samuel Bellin
Biography
Samuel Bellin, printmaker and engraver, trained in England under James Basire the Younger before travelling to Rome, where he honed his drafting skills and made the acquaintance of JMW Turner and other artists.
2 portraits in the collection
Samuel Shelley
Biography
Samuel Shelley entered the Royal Academy Schools as a seventeen year-old in 1774 and exhibited at the Academy regularly from this time until 1804.
2 portraits in the collection
Samuel Metford
Biography
Samuel Metford was born in Glastonbury, into a Quaker family. In England he came to specialise in full-length silhouette likenesses, cut from black paper and embellished with gold and white paint.
1 portrait in the collection
Samuel Wood
Biography
Samuel 'Sammy' Woods (1867-1931), cricketer, is one of only five men to have played Tests for both Australia and England.
1 portrait in the collection
Hon. Saul Samuel
Biography
The Hon Sir Saul Samuel Bart KCMG CB (1820-1900), merchant, politician, company director and landowner, was the first Jewish legislator in New South Wales and the first Jew to become a minister of the Crown.
1 portrait in the collection
Henry Samuel Sadd
Biography
Henry Sadd was born in London and exhibited engravings there before emigrating to the USA some time around 1840.
8 portraits in the collection
John Lucas
Biography
John Lucas started his career as an apprentice to the engraver Samuel William Reynolds.
1 portrait in the collection
Nigel Brennan
Biography
Nigel Brennan studied photography at Griffith University and works primarily in photo-documentary.
1 portrait in the collection
Peter O'Shaughnessy OAM
Biography
Peter O'Shaughnessy (1923-2013), actor and producer, has produced many Australian plays and acted the major Shakespearian tragic roles both in Australia and overseas.
1 portrait in the collection
Stan Grant
Biography
Stan Grant (b. 1963), a proud Wiradjuri man born in Griffith, New South Wales, grew up wanting to be a journalist.
1 portrait in the collection