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William Bligh
Biography
William Bligh (1754-1817), naval officer, was born in Plymouth and first went to sea at around the age of eight.
3 portraits in the collection
William Bligh
About Face article
The life of William Bligh offers up a handful of the most remarkable episodes in the history of Britain’s eighteenth and early nineteenth-century maritime empire.
William Bligh, c. 1776
John Webber
Portrait, oil on canvas
Purchased with funds provided by the Liangis family 2015
Admiral Bligh, 1801
John Chapman
Portrait, stipple engraving on paper
Purchased 2010
High & Bligh
Magazine article by Joanna Gilmour, 2008
Joanna Gilmour explores the 1790 portrait of William Bligh by Robert Dodd.
William Bligh
by John Webber
Portrait story
Twice rebelled against, and twice vindicated, William Bligh occupies an ambivalent space in Australian history. Angus Trumble, former Director of the National Portrait Gallery, explains.
The Mutineers turning Lieut Bligh and part of the Officers and Crew adrift from His Majesty's Ship the Bounty, 1790
Robert Dodd, B B. Evans
Portrait, aquatint engraving on paper
Purchased with funds provided by the Ian Potter Foundation 2008
South-bound and down
Magazine article by Joanna Gilmour, 2013
Joanna Gilmour recounts the story of ill-fated sea voyages in the early stages of the Antipodean colony.
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