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Baron Jacques Hamelin (1768-1839), French naval officer, began his sailing career at seventeen, making his first long voyage on a merchant marine ship to and from Angola.
1 portrait in the collection

Baron Kurt von Stutterheim (1888–1978), German journalist and author, worked for the Berliner Tageblatt newspaper in Berlin, London and Rome from 1919 to 1936.
1 portrait in the collection

Sir Ferdinand Jakob Heinrich von Mueller KCMG (1825–1896), botanist, trained in pharmacy and botany in his native Germany before emigrating to Adelaide in 1847.
1 portrait in the collection



Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2011



Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2013

Victoria (1819–1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 1837 until her death in 1901.
8 portraits in the collection






Purchased 1998



Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Dr Ray Marginson AM 2001



Gift of Danina Dupain Anderson 2021. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

The First Legislative Council of Victoria was formed following Victoria’s separation from New South Wales in July 1851.
1 portrait in the collection

Sir Howard Florey OM KBE FRS FAA (1898–1968) pioneered the development and use of antibiotics.
2 portraits in the collection

Recorded 1967

The Photographic Society of Victoria was formed in 1876 to 'bring photographers together in a friendly spirit, in order to advance the art and science of photography in the colony, without any attempt at binding or dictating to members any special trading rules, such as charges for photographs or hours or days for closing or opening their respective establishments.' At the time of the first annual meeting on 9 March 1877 there were 61 members, five whom were ladies.
1 portrait in the collection