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Lt. Genrl. the Rt Honble. Sir George Murray G.C.B., G.C.H. &c., 1838
John Cochran after Sir Thomas Lawrence
Portrait, engraving on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2018
William Dampier, c. 1780
an unknown artist after Thomas Murray
Portrait, copper-line engraving on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2016
Painting writing
Magazine article by Dr Sarah Engledow, 2007
Dr Sarah Engledow explores the portraits of writers held in the National Portrait Gallery's collection.
Olly's Trolly, Freddie's Brushes, 1989
Murray Walker
Portrait, monoprint on paper
Gift of the artist 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
The Bushranger Tragedy (from The Australasian Sketcher, 23 November 1878), 1878
an unknown artist, The Australasian Sketcher
Portrait, wood engraving on paper
Purchased 2003
Les Murray AO
Biography
Leslie Allan ‘Les’ Murray AO (1938-2019) was acknowledged during his lifetime as one of the great poets writing in English.
4 portraits in the collection
Alec Murray
Biography
Alec Murray was a photographer whose Alec Murray's Album: Personalities of Australia was published by Sydney Ure Smith in about 1948.
1 portrait in the collection
Neil Murray
Biography
Neil Murray (b. 1956), singer/songwriter, grew up in country Victoria, studied art and became a teacher.
2 portraits in the collection
Murray Godfrey
Biography
Mervyn Godfrey OAM (1924-2013), Dean Godfrey (b. 1970), David Godfrey (b.
1 portrait in the collection
Murray Tyrrell AM
Biography
Murray Tyrrell AM (1921-2000) was a winemaker. Born in the Hunter Valley, Tyrrell served in the Pacific during World War II and became a cattle trader when he was repatriated.
1 portrait in the collection
Murray Bail
Biography
Murray Bail (b. 1941), writer, was born in Adelaide and spent several years in India and England in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
3 portraits in the collection
Binowee, 2010
by Murray Vanderveer
Image
Langscape, 2006
by Murray Vanderveer
Image
Study for portrait of Les Murray, 1995
David Naseby
Portrait, charcoal on paper
Gift of the artist 2001