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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
Thomas Woolner
Biography
Thomas Woolner, sculptor, studied first with the brothers Henry and William Behnes, painter and sculptor respectively, and later at the Royal Academy, at which he was to become professor of sculpture in his fifties.
5 portraits in the collection
Thomas Woolner
Charles Joseph La Trobe, 1853
Portrait, cast bronze relief medallion
Purchased 2006
Thomas Woolner
Phillip Parker King, 1854
Portrait, cast plaster
Purchased 2000
Thomas Woolner
William Charles Wentworth, 1854
Portrait, cast bronze relief medallion
Gift of the Simpson family in memory of Caroline Simpson OAM 2008. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
an unknown artist, Thomas Wharton
Thomas Sutcliffe Mort and his wife Theresa, c. 1847
Portrait, daguerreotype in a pinchbeck case
Purchased 2001
Thomas Woolner
Sir Charles Nicholson, 1854
Portrait, cast bronze relief medallion
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased through the Foundation Acquisitions Fund 2015
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
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