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Punch, wife of Cullabaa, Broken Bay tribe, 1836
William Fernyhough
Portrait, lithograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Dr Robert Edwards AO 1999
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program
G. H. Dancey
Biography
George Henry Dancey began his career as a stained glass designer in the UK and Australia, but ended it as the chief cartoonist for Melbourne Punch over 23 years to 1919..
1 portrait in the collection
Nicholas Chevalier
Biography
Nicholas Chevalier (1828-1902) was a Russian-born artist who came to the Victorian goldfields in 1855 and stayed in the colony as a cartoonist for Punch.
1 portrait in the collection
Brains trust
About Face article
Eminent doctors and scientists have for more than a century consistently caused our nation to punch far above her weight.
W.A. Bowring
Biography
Walter Bowring, born and educated in Auckland, contributed cartoons to the New Zealand observer and The weekly press, exhibited with the Canterbury Society of Arts and studied with Orpen and John in London, where he contributed to Punch, before arriving in Sydney in 1925.
3 portraits in the collection
S Calvert
Biography
Samuel Calvert studied in his native London with his father, engraver Edward Calvert, before emigrating to Australia in 1848.
1 portrait in the collection
Arthur Horner
Biography
Arthur Horner was born in Malvern, Victoria, and attended Sydney High School and the National Art School.
1 portrait in the collection
Percy Spence
Biography
Percy Spence, born in Balmain, grew up in Fiji and began art classes in Sydney in about 1888.
1 portrait in the collection
Phil May
Biography
Phil May (1864–1903), cartoonist, was born in Leeds and educated there before his family’s financial circumstances saw him leave school and start work at age thirteen.
1 portrait in the collection
Phil (Phil May), 1895
Sir Leslie Ward, Vincent Brooks, Day & Son, Vanity Fair Magazine
Portrait, chromolithograph on paper
Gift of Mr Ronald Walker 2001
Mungo MacCallum
Biography
Mungo MacCallum (1941–2020) was one of Australia's best-known political journalists.
1 portrait in the collection
Morris Lurie
Biography
Morris Lurie (b. 1938) is a Melbourne-based author of fiction. Born to Jewish parents who had fled Poland before World War 2, he studied architecture and worked in advertising before turning to writing full-time.
1 portrait in the collection
The Sculling Match at Sydney for the Championship of the World, 1877
an unknown artist, The Australasian Sketcher
Portrait, wood engraving on paper
Purchased 2015
Ayman Kaake
Vox pops
This photo is a self portrait. So this is me. So you can see the eye resemblance. So, and this photo is inspired by my friends, my workplace.
Self portrait, c. 1930
Percy Leason
Portrait, oil on composition board
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Anton Cook 2009
Will Dyson
Biography
Will (William Henry) Dyson, cartoonist, caricaturist, writer and draughtsman, was born in Alfredtown, near Ballarat, and studied for a short time in Melbourne, where he worked closely with his older brother Ambrose.
11 portraits in the collection