Gift of the Windeyer family 2009. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Gift of the Windeyer family 2009. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Gift of the Windeyer family 2009. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Gift of the Windeyer family 2009. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the Windeyer family 2009
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program
Family affections are preserved in a fine selection of intimate portraits.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the Windeyer family 2012
Gift of the Windeyer family 2009
Gift of the Windeyer family 2009
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the Windeyer family 2012
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2010
Sir William Windeyer (1834-1897) was a politician and judge. One of the first undergraduates to study at the University of Sydney, he developed a particular interest in education and the rights of women - he was responsible for the Married Women's Property Act of 1879, and was Founding Chairman of the university's Women's College.
4 portraits in the collection
Jane Windeyer (1865–1950) was the second eldest daughter of politician and judge Sir William Charles Windeyer (1834–1897) and his wife, Mary (née Bolton, 1837–1912), a leading campaigner for women’s rights.
2 portraits in the collection
Mary Windeyer (née Bolton, 1837-1912), women's rights campaigner, was one of the nine children of Robert Thorley Bolton, a clergyman who emigrated to New South Wales in 1839.
3 portraits in the collection
Richard Windeyer (1806-1847), journalist, barrister and politician, was the eldest of the ten children born to Charles Windeyer and his wife Ann Mary and remained in England when the rest of his family went to New South Wales.
3 portraits in the collection
Ann Mary Windeyer (née Rudd, c. 1783–1865) arrived in Sydney in 1828 with her husband Charles Windeyer (1780–1855) and nine of their ten children.
1 portrait in the collection
