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Death masks, post-mortem drawings and other spooky and disquieting portraits... Come and see how portraits of infamous Australians were used in the 19th century.
Joanna Gilmour discovers that the beards of the ill-fated explorers Burke and Wills were as epic as their expedition to traverse Australia from south to north.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by Graham Smith 2009
Purchased with funds provided by Ross A Field 2007
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2001
William Strutt arrived in Melbourne in 1850 having undertaken his training in art in Paris in the late 1830s.
1 portrait in the collection