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Tas Bull
Tas Bull
Tas Bull
Gary Ede

Tas Bull, 1986 (printed 2018)

Portrait, inkjet print on paper

Purchased 2018

Nouvelle-Hollane: N.lle Galles de Sud. Ourou-Maraé, dit bull-dog par leas Anglais, Jeune guerrier de la Tribu des Gwea-Gal (New Holland: New South Wales. Ouron Marae, called Bull Dog by the English. a young Warrior of the Gwea Gal tribe)
Nouvelle-Hollane: N.lle Galles de Sud. Ourou-Maraé, dit bull-dog par leas Anglais, Jeune guerrier de la Tribu des Gwea-Gal (New Holland: New South Wales. Ouron Marae, called Bull Dog by the English. a young Warrior of the Gwea Gal tribe)
Nouvelle-Hollane: N.lle Galles de Sud. Ourou-Maraé, dit bull-dog par leas Anglais, Jeune guerrier de la Tribu des Gwea-Gal (New Holland: New South Wales. Ouron Marae, called Bull Dog by the English. a young Warrior of the Gwea Gal tribe)
Barthélemy Roger after Nicolas-Martin Petit

Nouvelle-Hollane: N.lle Galles de Sud. Ourou-Maraé, dit bull-dog par leas Anglais, Jeune guerrier de la Tribu des Gwea-Gal (New Holland: New South Wales. Ouron Marae, called Bull Dog by the English. a young Warrior of the Gwea Gal tribe), c. 1800

Portrait, colour printed stipple engraving on paper

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2013

Ourou-Maré, dit Bull-Dog par les Anglais, Jeune Guerrier de la Tribu des Gwé-Gal
Ourou-Maré, dit Bull-Dog par les Anglais, Jeune Guerrier de la Tribu des Gwé-Gal
Ourou-Maré, dit Bull-Dog par les Anglais, Jeune Guerrier de la Tribu des Gwé-Gal
Barthélemy Roger after Nicolas-Martin Petit

Ourou-Maré, dit Bull-Dog par les Anglais, Jeune Guerrier de la Tribu des Gwé-Gal, 1807-1817

Portrait, engraving on paper

Purchased 2009

A Wool Merchant "Colonial John Bull" [Mr Richard Goldsbrough]
A Wool Merchant "Colonial John Bull" [Mr Richard Goldsbrough]
A Wool Merchant "Colonial John Bull" [Mr Richard Goldsbrough]
Tom Durkin, The Weekly Times

A Wool Merchant "Colonial John Bull" [Mr Richard Goldsbrough], 1874

Portrait, lithograph on paper

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2016

Mark Webber
Mark Webber
Mark Webber
Robin Sellick

Mark Webber, 2006

Portrait, type C photograph on paper

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2006

Leaving Lost, 2013

by Frazer Bull-Clark
General content

Finalist, MDPA 2013

Miss Florrie Ford (Christmas pantomime with toy cat)

Florrie Forde

Biography

Florrie Forde (1875–1940), singer and music hall performer, was born in Melbourne and was sixteen when she sang publicly for the first time, in Sydney, in late 1891.

9 portraits in the collection

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Tom Durkin

Biography

Thomas Coleman Durkin trained at the Williamstown School of Design and started work in Melbourne as an apprentice to an engraver and then a jeweller.

27 portraits in the collection

Ellyse Perry

Ellyse Perry

Biography

Ellyse Perry (b.1990) has represented Australia in both cricket and soccer, making her the only current dual international in Australian women’s sport.

2 portraits in the collection

by Nik Lee Our only concern is the void, 2013. Duration: 12 minutes

Macquarie Digital Portraiture Award media information

28 August 2013
Archived media releases 2013

The National Portrait Gallery recently announced the finalists for the Macquarie Digital Portraiture Award 2013.

A Goldfields Member "The Dove of Ararat" [The Hon. William McLellan M.L.A]

Showing character

Magazine article by Joanna Gilmour, 2016

Joanna Gilmour on Tom Durkin playing with Melbourne's manhood.

Themes and variations (Annelies) A13, 1946

Listening to form

Magazine article by Jane Kinsman, 2007

National Gallery of Australia curator Jane Kinsman discusses the portraiture of Henri Matisse.

Karina Dias Pires Louise Olsen (detail)

Artists at home

Magazine article by Karina Dias Pires, 2023

Karina Dias Pires shares the stories behind her portraits of women artists in their creative spaces.

by Elizabeth Looker Life Dancers, 2015

NPPP 2016 exhibition essay

General content

Penny Grist, National Photographic Portrait Prize judge and curator, introduces the 2016 Prize.

Noel McKenna, 2016 by Mark Mohell

Noel McKenna

Explore The Popular Pet Show

It’s a matter beyond dispute that in the entire history of Australian art, it’s Noel McKenna who’s painted the liveliest rendition of the head of a Chihuahua.

by Arlene TextaQueen Self Portrait (Textanude)

Animated

Self Portraits Online
Previous exhibition, 2008

Animated is the National Portrait Gallery's first online exhibition.

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