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Gift of Ross and Judy O'Connell 2016



Gift of Ross and Judy O'Connell 2016



Purchased 2005

John Connell (c. 1759–1849), free settler, merchant and landowner, came to New South Wales aboard the Earl Cornwallis, which arrived in Sydney in June 1801.
1 portrait in the collection





Gift of Eleanor Thornton 2013. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

Joshua Ross (b. 1981) excelled at athletics as a child, but didn't take up sprinting in earnest until 2000, inspired by watching the Sydney Olympics on television.
1 portrait in the collection

Ross Watson specialises in interpolating representations of lithe semi-naked men into copies of paintings by masters such as Vermeer, Ter Borsch, David and Bronzino.
2 portraits in the collection

Ross Wilson (b. 1947), musician and producer, started playing in bands as a schoolboy, fronting the Pink Finks and the Party Machine in the late 1960s.
3 portraits in the collection

Ross Honeysett (b. 1953) is a professional photographer who began his career in London and Paris, shooting for fashion magazines Vogue, Tatler, Glamour and Elle.
2 portraits in the collection

Robert Ross (1792–1862), clergyman, studied medicine in his native Edinburgh before being ordained into the Church of Scotland in 1818.
1 portrait in the collection

Ross Edwards (b. 1943), composer, became determined upon a life of composition as a child.
1 portrait in the collection



Gift of the artist 2004. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.



Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2005



Gift of the artist 2013, to mark the 70th birthday of composer Ross Edwards (23 December 2013)