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Delegates to the Constitutional Convention, Sydney 1891

Delegates to the Constitutional Convention, Sydney 1891

Delegates to the Constitutional Convention, Sydney 1891

Delegates to the Constitutional Convention, Sydney 1891, 1891

an unknown artist

Portrait, engravings on paper

Purchased 2009

Major Thomas Lord

Thomas Lord

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

Major Thomas Lord

Major Thomas Lord

Major Thomas Lord, c. 1840

Portrait, oil on canvas

Purchased 2015

Lord Viscount Sydney

Thomas Townshend, Lord Viscount Sydney

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

Lord Viscount Sydney

Lord Viscount Sydney

Lord Viscount Sydney, c. 1790

John Young after Gilbert Stuart

Portrait, mezzotint on paper

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2012

Delegates to the Constitutional Convention, Sydney 1891

Lord Kintore

Lord Kintore was Governor South Australia at the Constitutional Convention, Sydney, 1891.

1 portrait in the collection

Delegates to the Constitutional Convention, Sydney 1891

Lord Jersey

Lord Jersey was Governor New South Wales at the Constitutional Convention, Sydney, 1891.

1 portrait in the collection

Sir Robert May AC KT

Lord Robert May OM KBE FRS FAA

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

Susan Lord

Susan Lord

Susan Lord, c. 1840

Portrait, oil on canvas

Purchased 2015

Delegates to the Constitutional Convention, Sydney 1891

Lord Adrian Louis Hope

Lord Adrian Louis Hope was Governor Victoria at the Constitutional Convention, Sydney 1891.

1 portrait in the collection

Lord Kitchener

Lord Kitchener

Lord Kitchener

Lord Kitchener, n.d.

Portrait, carved Jarrah

Purchased 2016

Studio portrait of Lord Kitchener, British Secretary of State for War, 1914 by J Russell & Sons

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

Sir Robert May AC KT

Sir Robert May AC KT

Sir Robert May AC KT, 1999

Portrait, type C photograph on paper

Purchased 2001

Lord Goddard, White City Stadium, London

Lord Goddard, White City Stadium, London

Lord Goddard, White City Stadium, London

Lord Goddard, White City Stadium, London, c. 1957 (printed 2000)

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.

Self portrait

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

Thomas Sutcliffe Mort and his wife Theresa

Thomas Sutcliffe Mort and his wife Theresa

Thomas Sutcliffe Mort and his wife Theresa, c. 1847

an unknown artist, Thomas Wharton

Portrait, daguerreotype in a pinchbeck case

Purchased 2001

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