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Kevin Butler, c. 2000
Penny Tweedie
Portrait, type C photograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2004
Gamaliel Butler
Biography
Gamaliel Butler (1783–1852), lawyer and free settler, emigrated to Van Diemen’s Land in 1824 with his wife, Sarah (née Paine, 1787–1870).
2 portraits in the collection
Martha Sarah Butler
Biography
Edward Paine Butler (1811-1849), lawyer, and his wife Martha Sarah Butler (née Asprey, 1811-1864), arrived in Van Diemen's Land in 1835.
1 portrait in the collection
Nyadol Nyuon OAM
Richard Butler Bowdon
Image
Gamaliel Butler, c. 1810
an unknown artist
Portrait, watercolour on ivory
Purchased 2015
Gamaliel Butler, c. 1824
an unknown artist
Portrait, lithograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Merv Shearman 2012
Richard Butler, 1859
Lucy Meadows
Portrait, watercolour and pencil on paper
Purchased 2019
Annie Butler, 1859
Lucy Meadows
Portrait, watercolour and pencil on buff board
Purchased 2019
Still life with vanitas symbols (after David Bailly), 2008
by Kevin Best
Image
Edward Paine Butler, c. 1845
Thomas Griffiths Wainewright
Portrait, watercolour, gouache and pencil on paper
Purchased 2009
Kevin Gilbert
Biography
Kevin Gilbert (1933-1993), Indigenous activist, writer and artist, wrote the first play by an Aboriginal person to be publicly performed in Australia.
2 portraits in the collection
Kevin Weldon AM
Biography
Kevin Weldon (1933-2023), businessman and philanthropist, spent his early years in Ingham in far north Queensland, where his father ran a car dealership.
1 portrait in the collection
The Hon. Dr Kevin Rudd
Biography
An Australian story
Magazine article by The Hon. Dr Kevin Rudd, 2009
In his speech launching the new National Portrait Gallery building on 3 December 2008, then Prime Minister Kevin Rudd set the Gallery in a national and historical context.
Martha Sarah Butler, c. 1845
Thomas Griffiths Wainewright
Portrait, watercolour, gouache and pencil on paper
Purchased 2009
Kevin Weldon, 1978
Graeme Inson
Portrait, oil on canvas
Gift of Kevin Weldon 2012