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Baron Ferdinand Jakob Heinrich von Mueller
Biography
Sir Ferdinand Jakob Heinrich von Mueller KCMG (1825–1896), botanist, trained in pharmacy and botany in his native Germany before emigrating to Adelaide in 1847.
1 portrait in the collection
Baron Ferdinand von Mueller, c. 1890
Charles Troedel after Robert Wendel
Portrait, lithograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2013
Ferdinand Jean Joubert
Biography
Ferdinand Jean Joubert was a photographer and engraver. Born in Paris, Joubert studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and began working as an engraver around 1830.
1 portrait in the collection
Edward John Eyre, 1865
Ferdinand Jean Joubert
Portrait, etching on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2009
Frederick Schoenfeld
Biography
Frederick Schoenfeld was born in Switzerland and came to Australia in 1858 as a trained lthographer.Between 1859 and 1862 he worked as illustator and lithographer for publications prepared by the National Museum of Victoria.
1 portrait in the collection
The Australian exploring expedition travelling through scrub (from the Illustrated London News 1879), 1876
The Illustrated London News after Jesse Young
Portrait, wood engraving on paper
Purchased 2010
Ernest Giles
Biography
Ernest Giles (1835-1897), explorer, came to Australia at the age of fifteen, settling in Adelaide.
1 portrait in the collection
The Archduke
About Face article
The immediate chain of events that led to the outbreak of the First World War began 100 years ago on June 28.
William Henry Harvey
Biography
William Henry Harvey (1811-1866), botanist, formed a boyhood passion for natural history which was encouraged at Ballitore School, County Kildare.
1 portrait in the collection
Princess Elizabeth, Queen of Bohemia and Electress Palatine
Robert Peake the Elder
Image
Anna F. Walker
Biography
Anna Frances Walker (1830–1913), botanical artist and collector, was one of the thirteen children of Thomas Walker, a high-ranking colonial public servant, and his wife Anna Elizabeth, the daughter of merchant and landowner John Blaxland.
1 portrait in the collection
William Dakin, c. 1943
Gervaise Purcell
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Leigh Purcell 2012
William Dakin
Biography
William Dakin (1883-1950), zoologist, studied in his native England and, as an Exhibition scholar, in Kiel, Germany.
1 portrait in the collection
On the passage and pace of time
About Face article
In shock it fluctuates and with age, accelerates. Remembering the First World War and the Easter Rising.
Pansy Montague
Biography
Pansy Montague, ‘La Milo’ (c. 1885-unknown) appeared as a chorus girl and actress in Melbourne from about 1898, and in 1901 understudied Nellie Stewart in Sydney.
10 portraits in the collection
Robert Brown
Biography
Robert Brown (1773–1858) is considered ‘the father of Australian botany’.
2 portraits in the collection