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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
Showing character
Magazine article by Joanna Gilmour, 2016
Joanna Gilmour on Tom Durkin playing with Melbourne's manhood.
Elegance in exile
Portrait drawings from colonial Australia
Previous exhibition, 2012
Elegance in exile is an exhibition surveying the work of Richard Read senior, Thomas Bock, Thomas Griffiths Wainewright and Charles Rodius: four artists who, though exiled to Australia as convicts, created many of the most significant and elegant portraits of the colonial period.
A Head Master"Beyond the Grave" [Rev. J.E. Bromby], 1874
Tom Durkin, The Weekly Times
Portrait, lithograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2016
Master of the Hunt "Steady, Gentlemen, Steady!" [Mr George Watson], 1874
Tom Durkin, The Weekly Times
Portrait, lithograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2016
A Politician "Unlock the Lands!" [The Hon. James MacPhearson Grant], 1874
Tom Durkin, The Weekly Times
Portrait, lithograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2016
A Commissioner of Customs "Faithful to Francis" [The Hon. Edward Cohen M.L.A.], 1874
Tom Durkin, The Weekly Times
Portrait, lithograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2016
The Member of the Upper House "One of the Olden Time" [The Hon. John Alston Wallace M.L.C.], 1874
Tom Durkin, The Weekly Times
Portrait, lithograph on paper
Purchased 2016
A County Court Judge "Sober as a Judge" [Judge Pohlman], 1874
Tom Durkin, The Weekly Times
Portrait, lithograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2016
A Suburban Member. "Poetry and Politics" [John Whiteman], 1875
Tom Durkin, The Weekly Times
Portrait, lithograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2018
A Vanquished Knight "Wroth with Kilmore" [The Hon. John O'Shanassy, K.C.M.G.], 1874
Tom Durkin, The Weekly Times
Portrait, lithograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2016
![A Prima Donna [Maria Palmieri]](/files/3/5/d/7/i13472-sl.jpg "A Prima Donna [Maria Palmieri]")
![A Prima Donna [Maria Palmieri]](/files/3/5/d/7/i13472-ths.jpg "A Prima Donna [Maria Palmieri]")
A Prima Donna [Maria Palmieri], 1874
Tom Durkin, The Weekly Times
Portrait, lithograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2018
A Wool Merchant "Colonial John Bull" [Mr Richard Goldsbrough], 1874
Tom Durkin, The Weekly Times
Portrait, lithograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2016
A Goldfields Member "The Dove of Ararat" [The Hon. William McLellan M.L.A], 1874
Tom Durkin, The Weekly Times
Portrait, lithograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2016
![Homeopathy [Dr Günst]](/files/c/a/6/6/i13473-sl.jpg "Homeopathy [Dr Günst]")
![Homeopathy [Dr Günst]](/files/c/a/6/6/i13473-ths.jpg "Homeopathy [Dr Günst]")
Homeopathy [Dr Günst], 1874
Tom Durkin, The Weekly Times
Portrait, lithograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2018
A Collins Street Surgeon "Patients and Diamonds" [Dr Beaney F.R.C.S.], 1874
Tom Durkin, The Weekly Times
Portrait, lithograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2016