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Bungaree
Biography
Bungaree (c. 1775–1830), voyager, navigator and diplomat, was among the most significant Sydney-area Indigenous leaders of the early colonial period.
3 portraits in the collection
Bungaree, Chief of the Broken Bay Tribe, N S Wales, c. 1830
Charles Rodius
Portrait, lithograph on paper
Purchased 2018
Bungaree, late chief of the Broken Bay tribe, Sydney, 1836
William Fernyhough
Portrait, lithograph on paper
Gift of Dr Robert Edwards AO 1999. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Vue de George’s Street à Sydney, 1833
Alexis Nicholas Nöel after Louis Auguste de Sainson
Portrait, lithograph on Chine-collé on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2018
Gooseberry, widow of King Bungaree, 1836
William Fernyhough
Portrait, lithograph on paper
Gift of Dr Robert Edwards AO 1999. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Phillip Parker King
Biography
Phillip Parker King RN (1791–1856) has been described as the first Australian-born person to succeed in the world outside the colonies.
1 portrait in the collection
Heads of the People
A Portrait of Colonial Australia
Previous exhibition, 2000
For Tom Roberts - Australia's best nineteenth-century portrait painter - neither a proto-national portrait gallery nor more popular collections of portrait heads, were sufficient public celebrations for the notables of Australian history
Djon Mundine OAM
Biography
Djon Mundine OAM (b. 1951), a Bundjalung man, is a curator, writer, artist and activist.
1 portrait in the collection
Phillip Parker King, 1854
Thomas Woolner
Portrait, cast plaster
Purchased 2000
Self portrait, c. 1849
Charles Rodius
Portrait, pastel with ink wash on paper
Purchased 2009
Punch, wife of Cullabaa, Broken Bay tribe, 1836
William Fernyhough
Portrait, lithograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Dr Robert Edwards AO 1999
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program
Djon, 1990 (printed 2013)
Michael Riley
Portrait, inkjet print on paper
Purchased 2013
Captain Matthew Flinders RN, 1814
an unknown artist, Joyce Gold Naval Chronicle Office
Portrait, stipple engraving on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Ted and Gina Gregg 2012
Captain Matthew Flinders RN, 1814
an unknown artist, Joyce Gold Naval Chronicle Office
Portrait, stipple engraving on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2014
Birds of a feather
Magazine article by Annette Twyman, 2021
Charting a path from cockatiel to finch, Annette Twyman explores her family portraits and stories.
René Primevère Lesson
Biography
René Primevère Lesson (1794–1849), French surgeon, naturalist, ornithologist, and herpetologist, entered the Naval Medical School in Rochefort at the age of sixteen.
1 portrait in the collection