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Leonard French
Biography
Leonard French OBE (1928-2017) left school at fourteen to become an apprentice signwriter in his native Melbourne.
3 portraits in the collection
George French Angas
Biography
George French Angas (1822-1886) was an artist and shell collector, who published many illustrations of the plants, native animals and peoples of the southern hemisphere.
2 portraits in the collection
Jean Baptiste Guth
Biography
French artist Jean Baptiste Guth was a regular contributor of portraits to Vanity Fair during the late 1880s and throughout the 1890s.
1 portrait in the collection
Louis Antoine de Bougainville
Biography
Louis-Antoine de Bougainville (1729–1811), explorer, was an outstanding soldier, sailor and navigator who was gifted, too, in many intellectual spheres.
2 portraits in the collection
Nicholas Baudin
Biography
Nicolas Thomas Baudin (1754–1803), cartographic surveyor and naturalist, was sent by the French government to survey the coast of Australia in 1800.
1 portrait in the collection
Jules Sebastien Cesar Dumont d'Urville
Biography
Rear Admiral Jules Sebastien Cesar Dumont d'Urville (1790-1842), French explorer, made two journeys passing through the Pacific in the years between 1826 and 1840.
2 portraits in the collection
Jules Poret de Blosseville
Biography
Jules Poret de Blosseville (1802-1833), geographer, navigator and explorer, was a junior officer on the Coquille, which, under the command of Louis Isidore Duperrey, conducted a voyage to Oceania and South America between 1822 and 1825.
1 portrait in the collection
Jean-François de Galaup La Perouse
Biography
Jean-François de Galaup la Pérouse, Comte de la Pérouse (1741-1788), navigator, joined the French navy as a boy, rising to the rank of captain and serving with distinction and humanity in campaigns against the English in Hudson Bay in 1782.
4 portraits in the collection
Baron Jacques Hamelin
Biography
Baron Jacques Hamelin (1768-1839), French naval officer, began his sailing career at seventeen, making his first long voyage on a merchant marine ship to and from Angola.
1 portrait in the collection
Rachel Griffiths AM
Biography
Rachel Griffiths (b. 1968) studied education at Victoria College before working with the community theatre group Woolly Jumpers, Inc.
1 portrait in the collection
Georgie Swift
Biography
Georgie Swift (1920-2008), journalist, publicist and chatelaine, was born Georgette Marie Hiro Matsui to a French-born mother and Japanese father in Sydney after the First World War.
1 portrait in the collection
Joseph Jauffret
Biography
Joseph Jauffret was master of appeals to the French council of state from 1814 to 1836 and was created a count in 1823.
1 portrait in the collection
Nancy Wake AC
Biography
Nancy Wake AC (1912–2011) was one of the most-decorated women of the Second World War.
1 portrait in the collection
Edward Telford Simpson
Biography
Edward Telford Simpson (1889-1965), Alice's grandson, was born the only son of Edward Percy Simpson and his wife Anne.
1 portrait in the collection
Jean Francois Rigaud
Biography
Jean François Rigaud, French/ Italian artist, trained in Italy, where he became a member of the Bologna Academy in 1766.
1 portrait in the collection
Ken Rosewall AM MBE
Biography
Ken Rosewall AM MBE (b. 1934), champion tennis player, won the Australian Open in 1953 and again nineteen years later in 1972 (he remains both the youngest, and oldest, person to win the title).
1 portrait in the collection