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W. B. Gould
Biography
Liverpool-born William Buelow Gould (1803-1853) had worked as a draftsman for the London printmaker, Rudolph Ackermann, and as a painter for a Staffordshire pottery before being transported to Van Diemen’s Land for theft in 1827.
1 portrait in the collection
John Gould
Biography
John Gould (1804–1881) is known as the ‘father of Australian ornithology’ for his Birds of Australia, published in seven volumes between 1840 and 1848.
1 portrait in the collection
Shane Gould
Biography
Born the year that Dawn Fraser won her first Olympic Gold medal, Shane Gould (b.1956) in her very brief international career, became one of the world’s greatest female swimmers.
William Evans
Biography
The draftsman and engraver William Evans reproduced many of Sir William Beechey’s portraits including that of King George..
3 portraits in the collection
William Mora
Biography
William Mora (1953–2023), art dealer and gallerist, was the eldest son of artist Mirka Mora and restauranteur and gallery owner Georges Mora.
1 portrait in the collection
William Robertson Jnr
Biography
William Robertson junior studied at Oxford University and is said to have been the first Australian to row in an Oxford eight, his team victorious in the Boat Race of 1861.
5 portraits in the collection
William Fernyhough
Biography
William Henry Fernyhough (1809-1849) was a sketcher, silhouette artist, lithographer and draughtsman who immigrated to Sydney in 1836.
13 portraits in the collection
William Lanne
Biography
William Lanne (1834-1869), also known as King Billy or William Laney, is said to have been Truganini's third partner.
3 portraits in the collection
William Nicholas
Biography
William Nicholas was born near London and is believed to have trained with English printmaker A.M Huffam.
2 portraits in the collection
Sir William Beechey
Biography
Sir William Beechey, portrait painter and pupil of Johann Zoffany, was greatly influenced by Sir Joshua Reynolds.
1 portrait in the collection
William Johnson
Biography
William Johnson was a commercial photographer who operated a studio on the corner of Pitt and Market Streets in Sydney from the 1890s to the 1920s.
4 portraits in the collection
William Ridley
Biography
William Ridley, stipple engraver, worked as an illustrator for a variety of magazines.
5 portraits in the collection
William Buckley
Biography
William Buckley (1780-1856), known as 'the wild white man', was transported for life in 1802 for receiving stolen cloth.
1 portrait in the collection
William Hodges
Biography
William Hodges (1744-1797) trained from an early age at William Shipley's drawing school at Castle Court in the Strand, and was afterward apprenticed to a landscape painter.
3 portraits in the collection
William Dickinson
Biography
William Dickinson (1746-1823) was a London-born draughtsman, engraver and print publisher.
1 portrait in the collection
William Walford
Biography
Francis William Barnard Walford (1821–1896), businessman and landowner, was born in Hobart, the son of Barnard Walford (1801–1846), a publican and victualler; and the grandson of Barnard Walford senior (c.
1 portrait in the collection