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Trukanini
Biography
Trukanini (c. 1812–1876) is arguably nineteenth century Australia’s most celebrated Indigenous leader.
6 portraits in the collection
![Trucaninny [Trukanini], wife of Woureddy [Wurati]](/files/c/b/d/0/i10110-sl.jpg "Trucaninny [Trukanini], wife of Woureddy [Wurati]")
![Trucaninny [Trukanini], wife of Woureddy [Wurati]](/files/c/b/d/0/i10110-ths.jpg "Trucaninny [Trukanini], wife of Woureddy [Wurati]")
Trucaninny [Trukanini], wife of Woureddy [Wurati], 1836
Benjamin Law
Portrait, cast plaster, painted
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2010
Trukanini, 1866 (printed 1890s)
Charles Woolley
Portrait, glass plate negative
Purchased 2011
![Truggernana [Trukanini], a native of southern part of V.D. Land](/files/1/8/5/e/i8535-sl.jpg "Truggernana [Trukanini], a native of southern part of V.D. Land")
![Truggernana [Trukanini], a native of southern part of V.D. Land](/files/1/8/5/e/i8535-ths.jpg "Truggernana [Trukanini], a native of southern part of V.D. Land")
Truggernana [Trukanini], a native of southern part of V.D. Land, 1835
Benjamin Duterrau
Portrait, etching, printed in black ink from one copper plate on paper
Purchased with funds provided by The Ian Potter Foundation 2009
Trukanini, n.d.
J.W. Beattie after Charles Woolley
Portrait, albumen silver photograph
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by Allanah Dopson and Nicholas Heyward 2009
The art of conciliation
Magazine article by Gareth Knapman, 2017
Gareth Knapman explores the politics and opportunism behind the portraits of Tasmania’s Black War.
Aborigines, the last of the race, Tasmania, c. 1866
Henry Frith
Portrait, albumen silver photograph on paper
Purchased 2006
Aborigines at Oyster Cove, Tasmania, 1858 (printed 1890s)
Francis Nixon
Portrait, glass plate negative
Purchased 2011
Benjamin Law
Biography
Benjamin Law, sculptor and lithographer, arrived in Hobart in 1834 aboard the Sarah.
2 portraits in the collection
![Woureddy [Wurati], a wild native of Brune Island](/files/8/9/0/b/i8536-sl.jpg "Woureddy [Wurati], a wild native of Brune Island")
![Woureddy [Wurati], a wild native of Brune Island](/files/8/9/0/b/i8536-ths.jpg "Woureddy [Wurati], a wild native of Brune Island")
Woureddy [Wurati], a wild native of Brune Island, 1835
Benjamin Duterrau
Portrait, etching, printed in black ink from one copper plate on paper
Purchased with funds provided by The Ian Potter Foundation 2009
Charles Woolley
Biography
Charles Alfred Woolley (1834-1922), photographer and sketcher, ran a studio on Macquarie Street in Hobart from 1859 to 1870, producing numerous portraits along with views and stereographs of Hobart and surrounding areas.
6 portraits in the collection
![Woureddy [Wurati], an Aboriginal Chief of Van Diemen's Land](/files/1/8/b/4/i10111-sl.jpg "Woureddy [Wurati], an Aboriginal Chief of Van Diemen's Land")
![Woureddy [Wurati], an Aboriginal Chief of Van Diemen's Land](/files/1/8/b/4/i10111-ths.jpg "Woureddy [Wurati], an Aboriginal Chief of Van Diemen's Land")
Woureddy [Wurati], an Aboriginal Chief of Van Diemen's Land, 1835
Benjamin Law
Portrait, cast plaster, painted
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2010
William Lanne, c. 1866
J.W. Beattie after Charles Woolley
Portrait, albumen silver photograph
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by
Allanah Dopson & Nicholas Heyward 2009
Burnum Burnum, 1987 (printed 2010)
Bruce Postle
Portrait, type C photograph on paper
Purchased with funds provided by James Bain AM and Janette Bain 2010
![Woureddy [Wurati], an Aboriginal Chief of Van Diemen's Land](/files/1/8/b/4/i10111-slq.jpg "Woureddy [Wurati], an Aboriginal Chief of Van Diemen's Land")
Wurati
Biography
Wurati (active 1830s, d. 1842), was a Nuennone man from Bruny Island, a skilled hunter, boat builder and renowned storyteller who spoke five dialects.
2 portraits in the collection
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.