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Julian Ashton CBE
Biography
Julian Rossi Ashton CBE (1851-1942), art teacher, artist and critic, trained in art in London and at the Académie Julian in Paris before coming to Australia to work on the Illustrated Australian News in 1878.
4 portraits in the collection
Julian Rossi Ashton, 1933
Eric Wilson
Portrait, charcoal on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Philip Bacon AM 2012
Julian Ashton Life Class, 1920
Harold Cazneaux
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Purchased 2015
Julian Ashton, 1931
Harold Cazneaux
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2008
Society of Artists Selection Committee, 1907
Henry King
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Purchased 2008
Martin Grant, 2004
Julian Kingma
Portrait, type C photograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2006
Sir William Ashton OBE
Biography
Sir William (Will) Ashton OBE (1881-1963) was the son of James Ashton, who founded Adelaide's Norwood Art School in 1885 and its Academy of Arts in 1895.
1 portrait in the collection
Will Ashton
In their own words
In their own words
Recorded 1960
William Ashton, c. 1940s
Max Dupain OBE
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Richard King 2008
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program
William Baker Ashton
Biography
William Baker Ashton (1800-1854) was the first governor of Adelaide Gaol.
1 portrait in the collection
William Baker Ashton, First Governor of Adelaide Gaol, c. 1849
Henry H. Glover
Portrait, watercolour on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2011
Julian Meagher
Biography
Julian Meagher was born in Sydney in 1978 and studied part time at the Julian Ashton Art School before undertaking a Bachelor of Medicine/Bachelor of Surgery at the University of New South Wales.
1 portrait in the collection
Julian Kingma
'I look for those little, quiet gestures in between'
Portrait story
Photographer Julian Kingma describes his style of quiet portraiture that captures the spaces in between big gestures.
Julian Smith
Biography
Julian Smith, surgeon and photographer, came to Australia with his family from England at the age of three.
2 portraits in the collection
Julian Kingma
Biography
Julian Kingma (b. 1968), photographer, began his career in 1988 as a cadet for the Herald newspaper in Melbourne, and later worked for the Sunday Age as Head Features Photographer.
11 portraits in the collection
Julian Burnside AO KC
Biography
Julian Burnside AO (b. 1949), barrister, grew up in Melbourne, attending Melbourne Grammar and studying economics and law at Monash in the late 1960s.
1 portrait in the collection