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Gamaliel Butler
Biography
Gamaliel Butler (1783–1852), lawyer and free settler, emigrated to Van Diemen’s Land in 1824 with his wife, Sarah (née Paine, 1787–1870).
2 portraits in the collection
Gamaliel Butler, c. 1824
an unknown artist
Portrait, lithograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Merv Shearman 2012
Gamaliel Butler, c. 1810
an unknown artist
Portrait, watercolour on ivory
Purchased 2015
Martha Sarah Butler
Biography
Edward Paine Butler (1811-1849), lawyer, and his wife Martha Sarah Butler (née Asprey, 1811-1864), arrived in Van Diemen's Land in 1835.
1 portrait in the collection
Nyadol Nyuon OAM
Richard Butler Bowdon
Image
Richard Butler, 1859
Lucy Meadows
Portrait, watercolour and pencil on paper
Purchased 2019
Annie Butler, 1859
Lucy Meadows
Portrait, watercolour and pencil on buff board
Purchased 2019
Kevin Butler, c. 2000
Penny Tweedie
Portrait, type C photograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2004
Edward Paine Butler, c. 1845
Thomas Griffiths Wainewright
Portrait, watercolour, gouache and pencil on paper
Purchased 2009
Martha Sarah Butler, c. 1845
Thomas Griffiths Wainewright
Portrait, watercolour, gouache and pencil on paper
Purchased 2009
Cut and thrust
Environmental activists
General content
Harry Butler, Tim Flannery and Ian Kiernan
Poison pen
Magazine article by Michael Desmond, 2010
Michael Desmond examines the career of the eighteenth-century suspected poisoner and portrait artist Thomas Griffiths Wainewright.
Martin Philbey
Biography
Martin Philbey (b. 1962) is a Melbourne-based photographer who has amassed an archive of 100,000 images over his twenty-year career.
4 portraits in the collection
Adrian Feint
Biography
Adrian Feint (1894-1971) studied at the Sydney Art School with Julian Ashton after having served in the AIF in France and Belgium in World War I, during which he was praised for gallantry.
1 portrait in the collection
Lady Natasha Johnston
Biography
Natasha Johnston (1914-1984) was born Nataliya Konstantinovna Bagration-Moukhranskya, Princess Natasha Bagration, in Crimea.
1 portrait in the collection
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.