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William John Pickett Bedford
Biography
William John Pickett Bedford (1805–1869) was the eldest of three children of Anglican clergyman, William Bedford (1781–1852), and his wife, Eleanor, and came to Van Diemen’s Land with his family in 1823 following the appointment of his father to a chaplaincy in the colony.
1 portrait in the collection
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
Paddy Nyunkuny Bedford
Biography
Paddy Nyunkuny Bedford (1920/1924–2007), also known as Goowoomji or Guwumji, artist and Gija elder, was born on Bedford Downs Station, near Warmun in Western Australia.
1 portrait in the collection
Paddy Bedford, 2003
Jim Anderson
Portrait, inkjet print on canvas
Gift of Patrick Corrigan AM 2013. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Sir Frederick George Denham Bedford GCB GCVO
Biography
Sir Frederick George Denham Bedford GCB GCVO (1838–1913) was governor of Western Australia from 1903 to 1909.
1 portrait in the collection
Western Australia (Sir Frederick Bedford), 1903
Sir Leslie Ward, Vincent Brooks, Day & Son, Vanity Fair Magazine
Portrait, chromolithograph on paper
Purchased 2015
Opening of the First Legislative Council of Victoria by Governor Charles Joseph LaTrobe at St Patrick's Hall, Bourke Street West, Melbourne November 13th 1851, 1883
John Noone after William Strutt
Portrait, photolithograph on paper
Purchased 2013
George Rose, 1811
Giovanni Vendramini, T Cadell & W Davies after William Evans, Sir William Beechey
Portrait, engraving on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2012
William Macleay, 1885
William Macleod after Freeman Brothers
Portrait, lithograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2014
The Right Honourable William Pitt, 1799
Charles Brome after William Owen
Portrait, line engraving on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2016
William Hodges RA, 1808 (dated 1810)
William Daniell after George Dance
Portrait, etching on paper
Purchased 2010
William Westall, 1854
William Daniell after George Dance
Portrait, etching on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2011
Sir William Gaston Walkley, 1958
William Pidgeon
Portrait, oil on canvas
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Caltex Australia Ltd 2008
Study for Portrait of W S Robinson, 1952
Sir William Dobell OBE
Portrait, oil on board
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by L Gordon Darling AC CMG 2003
Album of cartes de visite and cabinet cards compiled by William St Leonards Robertson, 1860s-c. 1900
Various
Portrait, 24 page brown leather bound album of 119 cartes de visite and 16 cabinet card photographs
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Malcolm Robertson in memory of William Thomas Robertson 2018
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program
William Robertson and Martha Mary Robertson, 1863
William Edward Kilburn
Portrait, carte de visite photograph on card
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Malcolm Robertson in memory of William Thomas Robertson 2018. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.