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an unknown artist after Georg Emil Hansen
Princess Alexandra of Denmark (later Queen Alexandra), c. 1862
Portrait, albumen paper carte de visite on card
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2020
Charles Wheeler
Princess Elizabeth Alexandra Mary (future Queen Elizabeth II), 1942-1943
Portrait, coloured chalk on artist board
Purchased 2019
an unknown artist
Set of 129 Royal Christmas Cards and three miscellaneous items, 1951-2001
Portrait, offset print (tipped in), letter press (greeting), pen and ink (signature), embossed (royal emblem) on cardboard
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Patricia Tryon Macdonald 2005
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program
John Elliott
Rolf de Heer, Adelaide, SA, 2004
Portrait, type C photograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2005
Ah Xian
Dr John Yu, 2004
Portrait, glazed ceramic
Commissioned with funds provided by Marilyn Darling AC 2004
Bryan Westwood
James Oswald Fairfax, c. 1991
Portrait, oil on canvas
Gift of John Fairfax Holdings Ltd 2002. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
John Longstaff
J.C. Williamson, c. 1913
Portrait, oil on canvas
Gift of the family of Aimée Viola Horsley, daughter of J.C. Williamson 2009. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Ah Xian
Untitled (preparatory study for sculpture of Dr John Yu), 2003
Portrait, pencil and white chalk on paper
Commissioned with funds provided by Marilyn Darling AC 2004
W & D Downey
Lillie Langtry, c. 1885
Portrait, carte de visite photograph on card
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Malcolm Robertson in memory of William Thomas Robertson 2018. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Getting a head
Magazine article by Alexandra Roginski, 2015
Alexandra Roginski gets a feel for phrenology’s fundamentals.
Sibly irresistible
Magazine article by Alexandra Roginski, 2019
Alexandra Roginski reveals a forceful feminist figure in the colonial period’s slippery science, phrenology.
Ned Kelly and death masks
'Judge a person by their cover'
Portrait story
Alexandra Roginski explains the history behind the pseudo-science of phrenology.
Judge a person by their cover
Death masks and phrenology
General content
Alexandra Roginski explains the history behind the pseudo-science of phrenology, popular in the nineteenth century.
James Fairfax AO
Biography
James Oswald Fairfax AC (1933-2017) was the eldest son of Sir Warwick Fairfax.
1 portrait in the collection
Rolf de Heer
Biography
Rolf de Heer (b. 1951) was born in Heemskerk, Holland, and migrated to Australia with his family in 1959.
1 portrait in the collection
John Yu AC
Biography
Dr John Yu (b.1934), retired paediatrician and hospital administrator, was born in Nanking, China and moved to Australia with his parents when he was three years old.
3 portraits in the collection