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Wylie
Biography
Wylie (c. 1824–unknown) is thought to have been born near King George’s Sound in south-west Western Australia, which would make him a Noongar man.
1 portrait in the collection
Wylie, 1840-1841
Robert Neill
Portrait, steel engraving with later hand-colouring on paper
Purchased 2018
Sir Henry Wylie Norman
Biography
Sir Henry Wylie Norman (1826–1904), governor and army officer, was born in London, the son of a merchant who conducted his business chiefly in India and the Caribbean.
1 portrait in the collection
Chelsea Hospital (Sir Henry Wylie Norman), 1903
Sir Leslie Ward, Vincent Brooks, Day & Son, Vanity Fair Magazine
Portrait, chromolithograph on paper
Purchased 2015
Shigeo Sawada, c. 1915
Kan Studios
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Gift of Ron Wylie 2007
Edward John Eyre
Biography
Edward John Eyre (1815-1901), explorer and administrator, emigrated to New South Wales from England when he was 17.
3 portraits in the collection
Ellie Cole, 2016 (printed 2021)
Peter Brew-Bevan
Portrait, inkjet print on paper
Purchased with funds provided by the Annual Appeal for Contemporary Australian Photography 2021
Edward John Eyre, Late Governor of Jamaica, 1867
John Brown after H Hering
Portrait, engraving on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by Karen McLeod Adair and Anthony Adair 2003
Robert Neill
Biography
Robert Neill arrived in Van Diemen’s Land from Edinburgh in 1820 with his free-settler parents and two siblings.
1 portrait in the collection
Portrait Story
Magazine article by Ellie Cole AM, 2022
For me, swimming was particularly special because it was the only sport that I could participate in as a kid where I could take my prosthetic leg off, jump in the water, and I could be the same as all the other kids.
Edward John Eyre, 1867
Julia Margaret Cameron
Portrait, albumen silver photograph on paper
Presented by Sir Roy Strong and the late Dr Julia Trevelyan Oman in memory of their friendship with Gordon Darling and Marilyn Darling 2006
Like wow
Magazine article by Joanna Gilmour, 2009
Joanna Gilmour explores the life of female Australian surfing legend Isabel Letham.
Time and light
In Gallery Seven
Previous exhibition, 2023
This sample of 56 photographs takes in some of the smallest photographs we own and some of the largest, some of the earliest and some of the most recent, as well as multiple photographic processes from daguerreotypes to digital media.
Heartfelt
Magazine article by Dr Sarah Engledow, 2009
The portrait of Janet and Horace Keats with the spirit of the poet Christopher Brennan is brought to life by artist Dora Toovey.
Portrait Donors
Listed by year
Honour board