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John Kay
Thomas Muir of Huntershill, 1838
Portrait, engraving on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2011
François Bonneville
Thomas Muir, 1800
Portrait, copper-line engraving on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2015
Ian Darling AO
Jon (Jon Muir), 2008
Portrait, inkjet print on paper
Gift of the artist 2010
Thomas Muir
Biography
Thomas Muir (1765-1799), lawyer, political activist and political convict, began studies at the University of Glasgow at the age of twelve.
2 portraits in the collection
an unknown artist, Thomas Wharton
Thomas Sutcliffe Mort and his wife Theresa, c. 1847
Portrait, daguerreotype in a pinchbeck case
Purchased 2001
Judy Cassab AO CBE
Daniel Thomas, 1987
Portrait, oil on canvas
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Mr Peter Kampfner 2013
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program
Henry Mundy
Major Thomas Lord, c. 1840
Portrait, oil on canvas
Purchased 2015
Montalbetti + Campbell
Andy Thomas, 2002
Portrait, inkjet print on paper
Commissioned with funds provided by L Gordon Darling AC CMG 2002
an unknown artist
Thomas Woolner, c. 1865
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by L Gordon Darling AC CMG 2009
Batchelder & O'Neill
Reverend Thomas Buddle, 1863
Portrait, carte de visite photograph
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2010
James Faed, W Wilding after John Watson Gordon
General Sir Thomas Makdougall Brisbane, 1850 (published)
Portrait, mezzotint on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by Ross A Field 2008
John Kay
Thomas White, midshipman, c. 1838
Portrait, etching on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2015
an unknown artist
Thomas and John Clarke, bushrangers, photographed in Braidwood Gaol, 1867
Portrait, albumen silver photograph on laid down on a section cut from a nineteenth century album page
Purchased 2019
Frederick Bromley after Robert Frain
Sir Thomas Makdougall Brisbane, 1842
Portrait, mezzotint on paper
Purchased with funds provided by Ross A Field 2008
Bernd Heinrich
Thomas Keneally, 1987
Portrait, oil on canvas
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of L Gordon Darling AC CMG 2005
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program
Carlo Pellegrini, Vincent Brooks, Day & Son, Vanity Fair Magazine
Round the World (Thomas Brassey), 1877
Portrait, chromolithograph on paper
Purchased 2015