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Martha Sarah Butler

Martha Sarah Butler

Martha Sarah Butler

Martha Sarah Butler, c. 1845

Thomas Griffiths Wainewright

Portrait, watercolour, gouache and pencil on paper

Purchased 2009

Reverend William Bedford junior

Reverend William Bedford junior

Reverend William Bedford junior

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

Rachel Ward and Bryan Brown

Rachel Ward and Bryan Brown

Rachel Ward and Bryan Brown

Rachel Ward and Bryan Brown, 2006 (printed 2020)

Peter Brew-Bevan

Portrait, inkjet print on paper

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2020

Rachel

Rachel

Rachel

Rachel, 2021

Thea Anamara Perkins

Portrait, synthetic polymer paint on gessoboard

Purchased 2022

Self portrait

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.

Bryan Brown

Bryan Brown

Bryan Brown

Bryan Brown, 2008

Portrait, inkjet print on paper

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2013

Bryan Brown

Bryan Brown AM

Bryan Brown AM (b. 1947), actor and producer, worked as an insurance salesman before doing theatre in Australia and London.

2 portraits in the collection

Ben Mendelsohn

Ben Mendelsohn

Ben Mendelsohn (b. 1969), actor, spent much of his early childhood abroad as his father, a leading medical researcher, worked in Europe and the USA.

2 portraits in the collection

Wandangula Dancers & the Song People Perform Ngabaya (Spirit People) at the 2014 Malandarri Festival, Yanyuwa Country 2014, n.d. Benjamin Warlngundu Ellis Bayliss

Wandangula Dancers & the Song People Perform Ngabaya (Spirit People) at the 2014 Malandarri Festival, Yanyuwa Country 2014

Benjamin Warlngundu Ellis Bayliss

Charles Perkins with Eileen Perkins

Eileen Perkins

Eileen Perkins is a descendant of one of Adelaide's prominent German Lutheran families.

1 portrait in the collection

For a pittance, 2011 by Mine Konakci

For a pittance, 2011

by Mine Konakci

Charles and Adam

Adam Perkins

Adam Perkins, an Arrernte and Kalkadoon man, is the son of Indigenous rights campaigner and bureaucrat Charles Perkins AO.

1 portrait in the collection

Robert, Lindy, Grant

Robert Forster

Robert Forster wrote The Go-Betweens' first recorded songs, 'Lee Remick' and 'Karen', of which they pressed about 500 copies, distributing them themselves.

1 portrait in the collection

Robert Foster

Robert (No. 1 of Robert, Lindy, Grant)

Rachel Ward and Bryan Brown

Californian clinch in the ‘Australian’ outback

Long-term love scene

Reverend William Bedford junior

William John Pickett Bedford

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

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