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Edmund Capon AM OBE
Biography
Edmund Capon AM OBE (1940–2019), gallery director, commenced his museum career at a commercial gallery in London whilst a student at the Courtauld Institute of Art.
2 portraits in the collection
Edmund Capon, 2011
Gary Grealy
Portrait, inkjet print on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2013
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program
Edmund Capon, c. 1986 (printed 2019)
Neil Duncan
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2019
Edmund Edgar
Biography
Edmund Edgar (1804–1854), engraver and portrait painter, was convicted of robbery in London in 1825 and sentenced to transportation for life.
1 portrait in the collection
Edmund Jowett, 1917
Boz
Portrait, pen and ink on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2012
Edmund Jowett
Biography
Edmund Jowett (1858-1936), pastoralist, businessman and politician, was the son of a stuffmaker and learned the wool trade at his uncle's mill in Thornton, Yorkshire.
1 portrait in the collection
The Rt. Hon Sir Edmund Barton GCMG PC KC
Biography
Sir Edmund Barton GCMG PC KC (1849-1920), Australia’s first prime minister, was the youngest of nine children of a well-educated woman.
6 portraits in the collection
Richard Fitzgerald, c. 1838
Edmund Edgar
Portrait, pencil and watercolour on paper
Gift in memory of Richard Kelynack Evans 2010. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
The Federal Leader Edmund Barton, c. 1900
Nelson Illingworth
Portrait, cast plaster, painted
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by the Liangis family 2012
Edmund Barton, c. 1903
Crown Studios
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2011
Mr Barton 'Overworked', 1893
Livingston Hopkins
Portrait, pen and ink on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2008
A Town Clerk. "He Rules the Roost" [Edmund Gerald Fitzgibbon], 1875
Tom Durkin, The Weekly Times
Portrait, lithograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2018
Barton and Watson, 1902
G. H. Dancey
Portrait, pen and ink on paper
Purchased 2012
Police (Lieut Colonel Edmund Yeamans Walcott Henderson), 1875
Carlo Pellegrini, Vincent Brooks, Day & Son, Vanity Fair Magazine
Portrait, chromolithograph on paper
Gift of Mr Ronald Walker 2001
Australia (Sir Edmund Barton), 1902
Sir Leslie Ward, Vincent Brooks, Day & Son, Vanity Fair Magazine
Portrait, chromolithograph on paper
Gift of Mr Ronald Walker 2001
First High Court of Australia, c. 1903
an unknown artist
Portrait, albumen silver photograph
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2011