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Thomas Pearce
Biography
Thomas Pearce (c. 1860-1909) was an apprentice on the English merchant vessel the Loch Ard, which embarked for Victoria in March 1878 carrying 37 crew and 16 passengers, many from the Carmichael family.
1 portrait in the collection
Guy Pearce, 2000 (printed 2004)
Karin Catt
Portrait, type C photograph on paper
Purchased 2005
Thomas Pearce, c. 1878
The Photographic Society of Victoria, Melbourne
Portrait, albumen paper carte de visite on card
Purchased 2010
Jessie Whyte, c. 1840
Thomas Bock
Portrait, pastel and chalk on paper laid down on cotton over Cedar strainer
Purchased 2017
Gillian Armstrong AM
Biography
Gillian Armstrong (b. 1950) studied theatre and film-making at Swinburne Technical College and was a star student at the newly-established Australian Film and Television School in the early 70s.
2 portraits in the collection
Gillian Armstrong AM, 1973
Gordon Glenn
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2003
John Passmore
Biography
John Passmore (1904-1984), painter, studied with Julian Ashton in Sydney between the ages of fourteen and twenty-nine, and took some instruction from George Lambert.
1 portrait in the collection
Thomas Bock
Biography
Thomas Bock, artist, printmaker and photographer, is believed to have been born at Sutton Coldfield, near Birmingham, in 1790.
3 portraits in the collection
Public hanging
Magazine article by Michael Desmond, 2008
As a convict Thomas Bock was required to sketch executed murders for science; as a free man, fashionable society portraits.
David Strachan
Biography
David Strachan (1919–1970), painter and printmaker, was educated at Geelong Grammar School and then studied art at the Slade School in London.
2 portraits in the collection
Famous
Karin Catt Portraits
Previous exhibition, 2006
Australian photographer Karin Catt has photographed world leaders, a host of rock stars and Oscar-winning compatriots Russell Crowe, Nicole Kidman, and Cate Blanchett.
Clara Crosbie, c. 1885
Arthur William Burman
Portrait, carte de visite photograph
Gift of John McPhee 2018
Reverend Daniel Draper, c. 1866
Fredrick Charles Burman after John Cochran
Portrait, albumen paper carte de visite
Purchased 2010
POL
Portrait of a Generation
Previous exhibition, 2003
POL was a magazine that ran from 1969 to 1986
Sideshow Alley
Infamy, the macabre & the portrait
Previous exhibition, 2015
Death masks, post-mortem drawings and other spooky and disquieting portraits... Come and see how portraits of infamous Australians were used in the 19th century.
9 lives of Karin Catt
Magazine article by Simon Elliott, 2006
Australian photographer Karin Catt has shot across the spectrum of celebrity, her subjects including rock stars, world leaders and actors.