Search results for the tag 'portrait'

Exhibition review: Paradise Lost – Thomas Griffiths Wainewright

Thomas Griffiths Wainewright (1794–1847) was early colonial Australia’s most sophisticated and glamourising portraitist. The current exhibition,
Paradise Lost – Thomas Griffiths Wainewright, at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery (TMAG) features 40 works by Wainewright together with contextual works by ...

Portrait of an artist: rediscovering Rose Blakemore

Recently rediscovered information pertaining to the life of Australian painter and art teacher Rose Blakemore has enriched our understanding of four portrait miniatures in the Queensland Art Gallery’s collection.

Dr John White FLS, Surgeon-General of NSW: a portrait by Thomas Watling

John White was born at Drumaran, County Fermanagh in north-western Ireland about 1756 – not England as is sometimes claimed.1 He entered the Royal Navy as a surgeon’s mate in 1778 and rose to naval surgeon; in this capacity he was appointed to serve as surgeon on the transport Charlotte in the First Fleet, ...

Gladys Osborne's portrait miniatures

In 2012, the very substantial archive of the late Leslie Nicholl Walford AM (1927–2012) was acquired by the Caroline Simpson Library & Research Collection. Walford was one of the most influential interior designers in Australia, especially in society circles in Sydney. He was widely known through his weekly n...

Queensland welcomes a portrait of Lord Lamington

The John Oxley Library at the State Library of Queensland has added a portrait of Lord Lamington, Queensland’s eighth governor, to its collection of historical works of art.

Marina Shaw: china painter, sculptor, portrait painter

A national portrait for Queensland

The David Collins Box and miniature portrait

The David Collins box & miniature portrait

Portrait of a Manly hero

August Earle's portraits of Barnett Levey and his wife

Joseph Backler. Portrait painter to the not very rich or famous'

John Adam Pearson Sydney's First Portrait Sculptor

Exhibition Notice: 'Faces of Australia. Image, Reality and the Portrait (1818-1992). State Library of NSW

A Note on Thomas Bock's portraits of the Tasmanian Aborigines

Rare First Fleet Ship Portrait

Wedgewood Portrait Medallions with an Australian Association

A Portrait of Mrs. John Verge