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John Noone

John Noone, photographer and lithographer, began advertising the services of his ‘Photographic Establishment’ in the Melbourne Argus in September 1858, and worked from two separate addresses on Collins Street from this time until 1862.

1 portrait in the collection

Allan Lowe

Allan Lowe

Allan Lowe (1907-2007) is considered to be one of the major ceramic artists of his time particularly in the field of arthenware (lower-fired and more colourful work than stoneware).

1 portrait in the collection

Mick Dodson

Mick Dodson

Michael (Mick) Dodson AM (b. 1950) is a Yawuru man from the southern Kimberley in Western Australia.

1 portrait in the collection

Barry Sullivan

Barry Sullivan

Barry Sullivan

Barry Sullivan, c. 1863

Portrait, carte de visite photograph

Purchased 2018

The Member of the Upper House

The Member of the Upper House

The Member of the Upper House

The Member of the Upper House "One of the Olden Time" [The Hon. John Alston Wallace M.L.C.], 1874

Tom Durkin, The Weekly Times

Portrait, lithograph on paper

Purchased 2016

Athol Shmith

Athol Shmith

Athol Shmith

Athol Shmith, 1985

Michel Lawrence

Portrait, type C photograph on paper

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 1999

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Ruth Maddison

Ruth Maddison began taking photographs in the mid-1970s and exhibited her Christmas Holiday with Bob’s Family – a series of hand-coloured, snapshot-style images mimicking scenes from a family photo album – at Ewing Gallery in Melbourne in 1979.

1 portrait in the collection

The Burke and Wills Monument

William John Wills

William John Wills (1834-1861) came to Victoria with his brother in early 1853.

3 portraits in the collection

a squatter (Sir Samuel Wilson)

a squatter (Sir Samuel Wilson)

a squatter (Sir Samuel Wilson)

a squatter (Sir Samuel Wilson), 1885

Sir Leslie Ward, Vanity Fair Magazine

Portrait, chromolithograph on paper

Gift of Mr Ronald Walker 2001

Aldershot Cavalry (Major General Reginald Talbot)

Hon. Sir Reginald Talbot KCB

The Hon Sir Reginald Talbot KCB (1841-1929), army officer and English MP, was governor of Victoria from April 1904 to July 1908.

1 portrait in the collection

HM Queen Elizabeth II

Longest reign

About Face article

Queen Elizabeth II is now the longest-reigning British sovereign

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

Charles Joseph La Trobe

Charles Joseph La Trobe (1801-1875), colonial administrator, travelled widely in Europe and America before beginning his colonial career in the West Indies in 1837.

3 portraits in the collection

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Davida Allen

Davida Allen is a Queensland artist. As a student at Brisbane's Stuartholme School in the 1960s she had Betty Churcher as an art teacher.

2 portraits in the collection

The Reservoir 2, 2016 by Stephanie Rose Simcox

The Reservoir 2, 2016

by Stephanie Rose Simcox

Blue Mountain, Owner, Trainer, Jockey, James Scobie

Blue Mountain, Owner, Trainer, Jockey, James Scobie

Blue Mountain, Owner, Trainer, Jockey, James Scobie

Blue Mountain, Owner, Trainer, Jockey, James Scobie, 1887

Frederick Woodhouse

Portrait, oil on canvas

Purchased 2008

William Robertson and Martha Mary Robertson

A charming prospect

Nearest & Dearest

Family fortunes

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