Dora was the fourth child of Doretta and Stuart Alexander, her father the owner of a farming property near Albury, New South Wales.
1 portrait in the collection
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the Estate of Leslie Walford AM 2013
Dora Toovey, born in Bathurst, trained in Sydney under Antonio Dattilo-Rubbo, James R Jackson (whom she married) and John Passmore.
2 portraits in the collection
Joe Byrne (1857-1880), born to Irish Catholic parents like the others in Ned Kelly’s ‘gang’, showed promise at school but left as a twelve year old, after his father died.
1 portrait in the collection
Daniel Byrne (life dates unknown) was a painter who exhibited at the Royal Academy between 1840 and 1880.
1 portrait in the collection
Rose Byrne (b. 1979), actor, was raised in the Sydney suburbs of Balmain and Newtown, and joined the Australian Theatre for Young People at the age of eight.
1 portrait in the collection
Purchased 2005
Purchased 2009
Purchased 2017
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by Robert Oatley AO 2007
Gift of Anne and Brennan Keats 2009
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the Cutler family 2017
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program
Francis William Barnard Walford (1821–1896), businessman and landowner, was born in Hobart, the son of Barnard Walford (1801–1846), a publican and victualler; and the grandson of Barnard Walford senior (c.
1 portrait in the collection
Purchased 2017
A police party comprising Sergeant Kennedy and Constables Lonigan, Scanlan and McIntyre was dispatched to capture the Kelly gang in 1878.
1 portrait in the collection
A police party comprising Sergeant Kennedy and Constables Lonigan, Scanlan and McIntyre was dispatched to capture the Kelly gang in 1878.
1 portrait in the collection