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Max Dupain OBE
Colin Wills, c. 1940s
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Gift of Danina Dupain Anderson 2021. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
an unknown artist
Horace Spencer Wills and Cedric Spencer Wills, c. 1859
Portrait, 1/2 plate ambrotype with applied colour in a double elliptical brass matt inside a leather case (without lid)
Gift of T S Wills Cooke 2014. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Colin Wills
Biography
Colin Wills (1906–1965), journalist and author, was born in Toowoomba, Queensland and grew up in Sydney.
1 portrait in the collection
an unknown artist
Tom Wills, c. 1857 (printed c. 1905-1910)
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on grey paper on card
Gift of T S Wills Cooke 2014. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
an unknown artist
Thomas Wentworth Wills, c. 1859
Portrait, 1/2 plate ambrotype with applied colour in a double elliptical brass matt in a leather case
Gift of T S Wills Cooke 2014. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
an unknown artist
Horatio Spencer Wills, c. 1855
Portrait, 1/6 plate daguerreotype with applied colour in a brass matt in leather case
Gift of T S Wills Cooke 2014. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
an unknown artist
Emily Spencer Wills, c. 1855
Portrait, 1/6 plate daguerreotype with applied colour in al brass matt (without original leather case)
Gift of T S Wills Cooke 2014. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
De Gruchy & Leigh
William John Wills, c. 1861
Portrait, lithograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2009
Wilmot & Key
Egbert Spencer Wills, c. 1870
Portrait, carte de visite photograph, hand coloured on card
Gift of T S Wills Cooke 2014. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Wilmot & Key
Horatio Spencer Wills, c. 1870
Portrait, carte de visite photograph
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of T S Wills Cooke 2014
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program
Henry Samuel Sadd, Fergusson & Mitchell, Melbourne after Thomas Adams Hill
William John Wills, 2nd in command of the Victorian Expedition, 1860-1861
Portrait, mezzotint on paper
Purchased with funds provided by Ross A Field 2007
Douglass Baglin
Colin Preece, 1968
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2005
Stuart Campbell
Colin Friels, n.d.
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the Estate of Stuart Campbell 2012
Thomas Foster Chuck
The Burke and Wills Monument, 1869
Portrait, albumen paper photograph on carte de visite
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2001
Judy Cassab AO CBE
Sir Colin Syme, 1970
Portrait, oil on canvas laid on composition board
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of BHP Billiton 2003
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program
David Moore
Colin Madigan and Robert Hughes, Canberra, 1982 (printed 2000)
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
The series 'David Moore: From Face to Face' was acquired as a gift of the artist and with financial assistance from Timothy Fairfax AC and L Gordon Darling AC CMG 2001