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Charles Rodius
Biography
Charles Rodius (aka Rhodius) was born in Germany and went to England sometime before 1829, when he was convicted of stealing a reticule and transported to NSW for seven years.
4 portraits in the collection
Self portrait, c. 1849
Charles Rodius
Portrait, pastel with ink wash on paper
Purchased 2009
Bungaree, Chief of the Broken Bay Tribe, N S Wales, c. 1830
Charles Rodius
Portrait, lithograph on paper
Purchased 2018
Dr Ludwig Leichhardt, 1846
Charles Rodius
Portrait, lithograph on paper
Purchased 2004
Fine and dandy
Magazine article by Joanna Gilmour, 2010
Whether the result of misadventure or misdemeanour, many accomplished artists were transported to Australia where they ultimately left a positive mark on the history of art in this country.
John Knatchbull, Murderer of Mrs Ellen Jamieson, 1844
Charles Rodius, Hiberian Printing Office
Portrait, lithograph on paper
Gift of Leo Schofield AM 2005. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Elegance in exile
Portrait drawings from colonial Australia
Previous exhibition, 2012
Elegance in exile is an exhibition surveying the work of Richard Read senior, Thomas Bock, Thomas Griffiths Wainewright and Charles Rodius: four artists who, though exiled to Australia as convicts, created many of the most significant and elegant portraits of the colonial period.
Sir Charles Kingsford Smith and Captain Charles Ulm, 1961
Sir William Dargie CBE
Portrait, oil on canvas
Gift of the Sydney Airports Corporation 2001
The Wonder Years
Magazine article by Sarah Hill, 2001
Sarah Hill introduces the portrait busts of Sir Charles Kingsford Smith and Captain Charles Ulm by Enid Fleming.
Charles Ulm
Biography
Charles Ulm (1898-1934) began work as a clerk in a stockbroking office after he left school, but enlisted under a false identity in the 1st Battalion of the AIF just before his 16th birthday.
2 portraits in the collection
Charles Teo AM
Biography
Charles Teo AM (b. 1957) is a neurosurgeon. Born in Sydney, where he attended Scots College and graduated in medicine and surgery from the University of New South Wales, he worked for some years at the Children’s Medical Center, Dallas, Texas and was Associate Professor of Neurosurgery at the University of Arkansas.
1 portrait in the collection
Jack Charles
Biography
Jack Charles (1943–2022) was a revered Wiradjuri, Boon Warrung, Dja Dja Wurrung, Woiwurrung and Yorta Yorta Elder, activist, actor, musician and artist.
1 portrait in the collection
Charles Turner
Biography
Charles Turner (1773-1851), engraver, was born in Oxfordshire and moved to London at the end of the 1780s.
2 portraits in the collection
Jack Charles
In their own words
In their own words
Recorded 2022
Charles Kean
Biography
Charles Kean (1811-1868), actor, threw in his Eton education when his mother was deserted by his penniless father, the tragedian Edmund Kean.
1 portrait in the collection
Charles Hewitt
Biography
Born in Lincolnshire, Charles Hewitt (1837–1912) had begun working in Melbourne by 1860 and was one of the founding members of the Photographic Society of Victoria.
3 portraits in the collection