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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 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
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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
An Ex-Treasurer. "Ultra-Protection!" [Graham Berry, Premier of Victoria], 1874
Tom Durkin, The Weekly Times
Portrait, lithograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2018
A Chief Secretary "Blunt, but Honest" [The Hon. James Goodall Francis], 1874
Tom Durkin, The Weekly Times
Portrait, lithograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2016
A Right Worshipful. "He objects to Ladies" [James Gatehouse, Mayor of Melbourne, 1874-1875], 1874
Tom Durkin, The Weekly Times
Portrait, lithograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2018
A Premier "The New Man" [The Hon. George Briscoe Kerferd], 1874
Tom Durkin, The Weekly Times
Portrait, lithograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2016
A Popular Preacher. "Charity Covereth a Multitude of Sins" [Charles Clark], 1873
Tom Durkin, The Weekly Times
Portrait, lithograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2018
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