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Ludwig Becker
Biography
Ludwig Becker (1808-1861), was an artist, naturalist and explorer. He was born in Germany and trained as an artist there, and after arriving in Tasmania in 1851 he settled in Melbourne.
1 portrait in the collection
Ludwig Becker, 1861
Frederick Schoenfeld
Portrait, lithograph on paper
Purchased with funds provided by the Australian Decorative and Fine Arts Society Canberra 2000
Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig Leichhardt
Biography
Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig Leichhardt (1813-c. 1848) went to school and university in Germany but the range of his interests was such that he never actually graduated (he was later called Dr Leichhardt in recognition of his broad scholarship).
1 portrait in the collection
Dr Ludwig Leichhardt, 1846
Charles Rodius
Portrait, lithograph on paper
Purchased 2004
Lowe Kong Meng, c. 1887
Ludwig Lang after Johnstone O'Shannessy & Co
Portrait, tinted lithograph on paper
Purchased 2015
Bringing down a kingdom
Lust
The king and the showgirl
William Strutt
Biography
William Strutt arrived in Melbourne in 1850 having undertaken his training in art in Paris in the late 1830s.
1 portrait in the collection
Lola Montes, c. 1845
Joseph Karl Stieler
Portrait, oil on canvas
Purchased 2010
Frederick Schoenfeld
Biography
Frederick Schoenfeld was born in Switzerland and came to Australia in 1858 as a trained lthographer.Between 1859 and 1862 he worked as illustator and lithographer for publications prepared by the National Museum of Victoria.
1 portrait in the collection
François Jacques Dequevauvillier
Biography
François Jacques Dequevauviller was the son of the French engraver Nicolas-Barthelemy François Dequevauviller (1745–1807).
1 portrait in the collection
Hon. Sir John Forrest GCMG
Biography
Sir John Forrest (1847-1918), explorer and politician, trained as a surveyor and led an 1869 expedition in search of Ludwig Leichhardt.
2 portraits in the collection
The importance of being bearded
Magazine article by Joanna Gilmour, 2012
Joanna Gilmour discovers that the beards of the ill-fated explorers Burke and Wills were as epic as their expedition to traverse Australia from south to north.
Self portrait, 1948
Klaus Friedeberger
Portrait, oil on canvas
Gift of Julie Friedeberger 2021
Self portrait, c. 1849
Charles Rodius
Portrait, pastel with ink wash on paper
Purchased 2009
Klaus Friedeberger
Biography
Klaus Friedeberger (1922-2019) fled Germany for England at the age of sixteen, and the next year found himself on the Dunera bound for internment in Australia.
3 portraits in the collection
Eccleston Du Faur, 1911
Violet Teague
Portrait, oil on canvas
Gift of the New South Wales National Parks and Wildlife Service 2020