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David Foster OAM
Biography
David Foster OAM (b. 1957), champion axeman, is the most successful competitor in the history of the sport of woodchopping.
1 portrait in the collection
David Foster
'What the tree saw'
Portrait story
World champion woodcutter David Foster and artist Jacqui Stockdale.
What the tree saw: David Foster, 2018
Jacqui Stockdale
Portrait, inkjet print and oil on canvas, mounted with inset axe pendant
Commissioned with funds provided by the Sid and Fiona Myer Family Foundation 2018
Thomas Foster Chuck and Son
Biography
Thomas Foster Chuck (c. 1826-1898) specialised in photographing well-known colonists, many of whom featured amongst the 700 photographs in his huge mosaic The Explorers and Early Colonists of Victoria.
1 portrait in the collection
Thomas Foster Chuck
Biography
Thomas Foster Chuck (1826-1898), photographer and entrepreneur, was born in London and arrived in Victoria in 1861.
4 portraits in the collection
The Explorers & Early Colonists of Victoria, 1872
Thomas Foster Chuck
Portrait, composite albumen photograph on paper
Purchased 2018
Bishop James Moore, c. 1888-1889
Thomas Foster Chuck
Portrait, carte de visite photograph
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2010
Dr James Moorhouse, 1878-1879
Thomas Foster Chuck and Son
Portrait, carte de visite photograph
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2010
Sir Edward Eyre Williams, 1872
Thomas Foster Chuck
Portrait, albumen silver photograph, hand coloured on paper
Gift of Ross and Judy O'Connell 2016
A Politician. "He is a Terror to Dummies' [Sir William Foster Stawell, Chief Justice of Victoria], 1873
Tom Durkin, The Weekly Times
Portrait, lithograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2018
The Burke and Wills Monument, 1869
Thomas Foster Chuck
Portrait, albumen paper photograph on carte de visite
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2001
Painting mates
Magazine article by Michael Desmond, 2011
Michael Desmond discusses Fred Williams' portraits of friends, artist Clifton Pugh, David Aspden and writer Stephen Murray-Smith, and the stylistic connections between his portraits and landscapes.
David Potts reflected in a magazine page, c. 1949 (printed 2000)
David Moore
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2001. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
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.
David Gulpilil, Arnhem Land, 1981 (printed 2000)
David Moore
Portrait, type C photograph on paper
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
Aboriginal couple, Finniss Springs Mission, South Australia, 1959 (printed 2000)
David Moore
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Gift of the artist 2001. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
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.
Opening of the First Legislative Council of Victoria by Governor Charles Joseph LaTrobe at St Patrick's Hall, Bourke Street West, Melbourne November 13th 1851, 1883
John Noone after William Strutt
Portrait, photolithograph on paper
Purchased 2013