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Delegates to the Constitutional Convention, Sydney 1891, 1891
an unknown artist
Portrait, engravings on paper
Purchased 2009
Thomas Lord
Biography
Thomas Daunt Lord (1783–1865) was the commandant of the convict station on Maria Island from 1825 until 1832.
1 portrait in the collection
Major Thomas Lord, c. 1840
Henry Mundy
Portrait, oil on canvas
Purchased 2015
Thomas Townshend, Lord Viscount Sydney
Biography
Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney PC (1733-1800) was British Home Secretary in the Pitt Government, given responsibility for devising a plan to settle convicts at Botany Bay.
1 portrait in the collection
Lord Viscount Sydney, c. 1790
John Young after Gilbert Stuart
Portrait, mezzotint on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2012
Lord Jersey
Biography
Lord Jersey was Governor New South Wales at the Constitutional Convention, Sydney, 1891.
1 portrait in the collection
Lord Kintore
Biography
Lord Kintore was Governor South Australia at the Constitutional Convention, Sydney, 1891.
1 portrait in the collection
Lord Robert May OM KBE FRS FAA
Biography
Robert May, Baron May of Oxford OM AC (1936–2020), physicist, chemical engineer, chemist, ecologist and mathematician, once described himself as a ‘scientist with a short attention span.’ Born and educated in Sydney, where he received his PhD in experimental physics in 1959, he lectured at Harvard, Sydney and Princeton before taking up a joint professorship at Imperial College London and Oxford.
1 portrait in the collection
Susan Lord, c. 1840
Henry Mundy
Portrait, oil on canvas
Purchased 2015
Lord Adrian Louis Hope
Biography
Lord Adrian Louis Hope was Governor Victoria at the Constitutional Convention, Sydney 1891.
1 portrait in the collection
Lord Kitchener, n.d.
William Howitt
Portrait, carved Jarrah
Purchased 2016
All the way with K of K
Magazine article by Dr Sarah Engledow, 2016
Sarah Engledow bristles at the biographers’ neglect of Kitchener’s antipodean intervention.
Sir Robert May AC KT, 1999
Polly Borland
Portrait, type C photograph on paper
Purchased 2001
Lord Goddard, White City Stadium, London, c. 1957 (printed 2000)
David Moore
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2001. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
The series 'David Moore: From Face to Face' was acquired as a gift of the artist and with financial assistance from Timothy Fairfax AC and L Gordon Darling AC CMG 2001.
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.
Thomas Sutcliffe Mort and his wife Theresa, c. 1847
an unknown artist, Thomas Wharton
Portrait, daguerreotype in a pinchbeck case
Purchased 2001