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John Roper, 1860s
John Buchanan Smith
Portrait, carte de visite photograph
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of John Sandefur 2019
John Firth Smith
Biography
John Firth-Smith (b. 1943) is a Sydney abstract painter. In the early 1960s he won a number of 'young artist' prizes for his paintings of yachts on Sydney Harbour, but by 1968 his work was becoming increasingly abstract, featuring large fields of opaque colour.
2 portraits in the collection
John Raphael Smith
Biography
John Raphael Smith worked in various drapery establishments and painted miniatures before turning to engraving in London.
1 portrait in the collection
Dick Smith, Sydney, 2000 (printed 2004)
John Elliott
Portrait, type C photograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2005
John Shirlow, c. 1937
Julian Smith
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2011
John Firth-Smith, 1974
Lewis Morley
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2003
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program
John Firth Smith, 1995
Greg Weight
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Gift of Patrick Corrigan AM 2004. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Sir Joseph Banks, c. 1788
John Raphael Smith after Sir Benjamin West
Portrait, mezzotint on paper
Purchased 2010
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John Mitchel with John Martin and Father John Kenyon [the three Johns], 1866
Edouard Gatel
Portrait, carte de visite photograph
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2016
Opening of the First Legislative Council of Victoria by Governor Charles Joseph LaTrobe at St Patrick's Hall, Bourke Street West, Melbourne November 13th 1851, 1883
John Noone after William Strutt
Portrait, photolithograph on paper
Purchased 2013
Lieutenant Watts, 1789
John Sherwin after Samuel Shelley
Portrait, stipple engraving on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2011
Edward John Eyre, Late Governor of Jamaica, 1867
John Brown after H Hering
Portrait, engraving on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by Karen McLeod Adair and Anthony Adair 2003
Captain Sir John Franklin, 1830
John Thomson after William Derby
Portrait, engraving on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Ted and Gina Gregg 2012
General Ralph Darling, Governor of New South Wales, c. 1840
John R. Jackson after John Linnell
Portrait, mezzotint on paper
Purchased 2018
Professor Ralph Blacket, 1994
John Caldwell
Portrait, mixed media on archival mount board
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2017
Joshua Smith
Biography
Joshua Smith studied sculpture with Rayner Hoff and took classes in drawing and painting at Julian Ashton's Sydney Art School.
5 portraits in the collection