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Rose Byrne
Biography
Rose Byrne (b. 1979), actor, was raised in the Sydney suburbs of Balmain and Newtown, and joined the Australian Theatre for Young People at the age of eight.
1 portrait in the collection
Rose Byrne, 2001 (printed 2004)
Karin Catt
Portrait, type C photograph on paper
Purchased 2005
Joe Byrne
Biography
Joe Byrne (1857-1880), born to Irish Catholic parents like the others in Ned Kelly’s ‘gang’, showed promise at school but left as a twelve year old, after his father died.
1 portrait in the collection
Daniel Byrne
Biography
Daniel Byrne (life dates unknown) was a painter who exhibited at the Royal Academy between 1840 and 1880.
1 portrait in the collection
Dora Byrne
Biography
Dora was the fourth child of Doretta and Stuart Alexander, her father the owner of a farming property near Albury, New South Wales.
1 portrait in the collection
Dora Byrne, 1951
Richard von Marientreu
Portrait, oil on canvas
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the Estate of Leslie Walford AM 2013
Portrait of Joshua Payne Esq., 1840
Daniel Byrne
Portrait, watercolour and gouache on ivory in leather bound case
Purchased 2009
The Destruction of the Kelly gang (from The Australasian Sketcher, 17 July 1880), 1880
Tom Carrington, The Australasian Sketcher
Portrait, wood engraving on paper
Purchased 2017
The Death of Captain Cook, 1784
Francesco Bartolozzi, William Byrne after John Webber
Portrait, engraving on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by Robert Oatley AO 2007
Lionel E. Rose MBE
Biography
Lionel Rose MBE (1948–2011), boxer, was the first Aboriginal Australian to win a world sporting title.
1 portrait in the collection
Rose Lindsay
Biography
Rose Lindsay (née Soady, 1885-1978), artist's model, posed for Sydney Long, Antonio Dattilo Rubbo and Fred Leist before she met Norman Lindsay in 1902.
5 portraits in the collection
George Rose
Biography
George Rose, joint Secretary of the British Treasury at the time of the First Fleet, joined the civil service after leaving the Royal Navy in 1762.
1 portrait in the collection
Rose Scott
Biography
Rose Scott (1847-1925), feminist and social reformer, devoted much of her life to campaigns that resulted in increased independence for Australian women.
1 portrait in the collection
Sophie at 17
Ilana Rose
Image
Maude Rose Bonney AM MBE
Biography
Maude Rose ‘Lores’ Bonney MBE AM (1897-1994), aviatrix, grew up in Melbourne and attended a German finishing school before marrying a Queensland leather-goods manufacturer in 1917.
2 portraits in the collection
Charmed by the Rose
Magazine article by Anthony Browell, 2004
Anthony Browell reminisces about meeting Rose Lindsay, the wife of Australian artist Norman Lindsay.