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John David Armstrong
Biography
John David Armstrong (1857–1943) was a sideshow and vaudeville performer known as ‘The Australian Tom Thumb’.
2 portraits in the collection
John David, Davids Holdings, Largest Grocery Wholesalers,
Joe Greenberg
Portrait, watercolour, crayon, coloured pencil, fibre-tipped pen and gouache on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2001
The Australian Tom Thumb (John David Armstrong), c. 1880
J D. Cooper
Portrait, carte de visite photograph
Purchased 2014
The Australian Tom Thumb (John David Armstrong), c. 1880
Sarony & Co
Portrait, carte de visite photograph
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2014
John Olsen, Woollahra, Sydney, 1962 (printed 2000)
David Moore
Portrait, montage of gelatin silver photographs
Gift of the artist 2001. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
The series 'David Moore: From Face to Face' was acquired as a gift of the artist and with financial assistance from Timothy Fairfax AC and L Gordon Darling AC CMG 2001.
John Foster Dulles, Washington, 1956 (printed 2000)
David Moore
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2001. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
The series 'David Moore: From Face to Face' was acquired as a gift of the artist and with financial assistance from Timothy Fairfax AC and L Gordon Darling AC CMG 2001.
John Braine, Ilkley Moor, West Yorkshire, 1958 (printed 2000)
David Moore
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2001. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
The series 'David Moore: From Face to Face' was acquired as a gift of the artist and with financial assistance from Timothy Fairfax AC and L Gordon Darling AC CMG 2001.
David Collins Esq, 1804
Anthony Cardon after John T. Barber
Portrait, stipple engraving on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2015
Sir John Franklin, c. 1846
Theresa Walker after David D'Angers
Portrait, cast wax
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2015
David Moore, Max Dupain and John Gollings, 1980 (printed 2001)
Kate Gollings
Portrait, colour digital print on photographic paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by Marilyn Darling AC 2001
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![John Mitchel with John Martin and Father John Kenyon [the three Johns]](/files/e/4/6/6/i14565-ths.jpg "John Mitchel with John Martin and Father John Kenyon [the three Johns]")
John Mitchel with John Martin and Father John Kenyon [the three Johns], 1866
Edouard Gatel
Portrait, carte de visite photograph
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2016
Painting mates
Magazine article by Michael Desmond, 2011
Michael Desmond discusses Fred Williams' portraits of friends, artist Clifton Pugh, David Aspden and writer Stephen Murray-Smith, and the stylistic connections between his portraits and landscapes.
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, 1883
John Noone after William Strutt
Portrait, photolithograph on paper
Purchased 2013
David Potts reflected in a magazine page, c. 1949 (printed 2000)
David Moore
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2001. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
The series 'David Moore: From Face to Face' was acquired as a gift of the artist and with financial assistance from Timothy Fairfax AC and L Gordon Darling AC CMG 2001.
David Gulpilil, Arnhem Land, 1981 (printed 2000)
David Moore
Portrait, type C photograph on paper
The series 'David Moore: From Face to Face' was acquired as a gift of the artist and with financial assistance from Timothy Fairfax AC and L Gordon Darling AC CMG 2001
Aboriginal couple, Finniss Springs Mission, South Australia, 1959 (printed 2000)
David Moore
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Gift of the artist 2001. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
The series 'David Moore: From Face to Face' was acquired as a gift of the artist and with financial assistance from Timothy Fairfax AC and L Gordon Darling AC CMG 2001.