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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 Griffiths Wainewright
Biography
Thomas Griffiths Wainewright (1794-1847) is one of the most intriguing and talented figures in colonial Australian art.
4 portraits in the collection
Poison pen
Magazine article by Michael Desmond, 2010
Michael Desmond examines the career of the eighteenth-century suspected poisoner and portrait artist Thomas Griffiths Wainewright.
A man of superior attainments
Magazine article by Joanna Gilmour, 2013
Joanna Gilmour explores the life of a colonial portrait artist, writer and rogue Thomas Griffiths Wainewright.
Edward Paine Butler, c. 1845
Thomas Griffiths Wainewright
Portrait, watercolour, gouache and pencil on paper
Purchased 2009
Portrait of Henry Hopkins, c. 1845
Thomas Griffiths Wainewright
Portrait, watercolour on paper
Purchased with funds provided by L Gordon Darling AC CMG 2013
Martha Sarah Butler, c. 1845
Thomas Griffiths Wainewright
Portrait, watercolour, gouache and pencil on paper
Purchased 2009
Reverend William Bedford junior, c. 1846
Thomas Griffiths Wainewright
Portrait, watercolour on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by Marilyn Darling AC 2013
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
David M Thomas
Dream Job
Previous exhibition, 2011
Since 1993 Brisbane-based artist David M Thomas has investigated self identity through art works that encompass painting, text, audio, video and performance.
Andy Thomas
'When I grow up I want to be an astronaut'
Portrait story
An interview with Australian astronaut, Dr. Andy Thomas, who describes the experience of space travel.
Thomas Atkinson
Biography
Thomas Lewis Atkinson (1817-c. 1890) is described in the Benezit Dictionary of Artists as 'one of the shining representatives of English engraving'.
1 portrait in the collection
Avril Thomas
Biography
Avril Thomas (b. 1956), artist, was born in Malaysia and went to boarding school in Scotland and Australia.
2 portraits in the collection
Rover Thomas
Biography
Rover Thomas (1926-1998), Kukatja-Wangkajunga artist, was born in the Great Sandy Desert of Western Australia and worked as a stockman and fencer before losing his employment upon the introduction of equal pay for indigenous workers in 1975.
1 portrait in the collection
Gubbo Thomas
Biography
Guboo Ted Thomas (1909–2002), land rights activist, was a tribal Elder of the Yuin nation and grew up on the Wallaga Lake Reserve near Narooma.
1 portrait in the collection