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Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig Leichhardt
Biography
Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig Leichhardt (1813-c. 1848) went to school and university in Germany but the range of his interests was such that he never actually graduated (he was later called Dr Leichhardt in recognition of his broad scholarship).
1 portrait in the collection
Dr Ludwig Leichhardt, 1846
Charles Rodius
Portrait, lithograph on paper
Purchased 2004
You beauty
Magazine article by Joanna Gilmour, 2010
Joanna Gilmour explores the fact and fictions surrounding the legendary life of Irish-born dancer Lola Montez.
Ludwig Becker
Biography
Ludwig Becker (1808-1861), was an artist, naturalist and explorer. He was born in Germany and trained as an artist there, and after arriving in Tasmania in 1851 he settled in Melbourne.
1 portrait in the collection
Ludwig Becker, 1861
Frederick Schoenfeld
Portrait, lithograph on paper
Purchased with funds provided by the Australian Decorative and Fine Arts Society Canberra 2000
Lowe Kong Meng, c. 1887
Ludwig Lang after Johnstone O'Shannessy & Co
Portrait, tinted lithograph on paper
Purchased 2015
Karl Friedrich Abel
Thomas Gainsborough
Image
Hon. Sir John Forrest GCMG
Biography
Sir John Forrest (1847-1918), explorer and politician, trained as a surveyor and led an 1869 expedition in search of Ludwig Leichhardt.
2 portraits in the collection
Bringing down a kingdom
Lust
The king and the showgirl
Self portrait, c. 1849
Charles Rodius
Portrait, pastel with ink wash on paper
Purchased 2009
Elegance in exile
Portrait drawings from colonial Australia
Previous exhibition, 2012
Elegance in exile is an exhibition surveying the work of Richard Read senior, Thomas Bock, Thomas Griffiths Wainewright and Charles Rodius: four artists who, though exiled to Australia as convicts, created many of the most significant and elegant portraits of the colonial period.
Eccleston Du Faur, 1911
Violet Teague
Portrait, oil on canvas
Gift of the New South Wales National Parks and Wildlife Service 2020
Frederick E. Du Faur
Biography
Frederick Eccleston du Faur (1832–1915), environmentalist, public servant and arts patron, came to Australia from his native London in 1853.
1 portrait in the collection
Stephen and Angelo
George Fetting
Image
Lola Montes, c. 1845
Joseph Karl Stieler
Portrait, oil on canvas
Purchased 2010
François Jacques Dequevauvillier
Biography
François Jacques Dequevauviller was the son of the French engraver Nicolas-Barthelemy François Dequevauviller (1745–1807).
1 portrait in the collection