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Owen Maher
Biography
Owen Maher (b.c. 1975) is a Bardi man from One Arm Point on the Dampier Peninsula.
1 portrait in the collection
Coji and Owen, c. 2000
Penny Tweedie
Portrait, type C photograph on paper
Gift of the artist 2004
Talking heads
About Face article
In their own words lead researcher Louise Maher on the novel project that lets the Gallery’s portraits speak for themselves.
Sarah
Therese Maher
Image
William Owen
Biography
William Owen moved to London from his native Shropshire in 1786 and was apprenticed for seven years to the coach-painter Charles Catton.
1 portrait in the collection
The Right Honourable William Pitt, 1799
Charles Brome after William Owen
Portrait, line engraving on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2016
Owen Yalandja, 2009
by Stephen Oxenbury
Image
Men of the Day No. 57 "Old Bones" (Sir Richard Owen), 1873
an unknown artist, Vanity Fair Magazine
Portrait, chromolithograph on paper
Purchased 2015
Treading Water, 2017
by Josh Owen
General content
Finalist, DPA 2017
Single channel digital video
Maria Windeyer, c. 1860s
an unknown artist
Portrait, albumen photograph, hand coloured
Gift of Joanna Russell Maher (née Windeyer) 2018
Sir Richard Owens
Biography
Sir Richard Owen (1804–1892), naturalist, anatomist and palaeontologist, was born in Lancaster and apprenticed to surgeon-apothecaries there before completing his studies in medicine in Edinburgh and London.
1 portrait in the collection
Runners, 2010
by David Kelly
Image
Charles Brome
Biography
Charles Brome, engraver, trained from the age of fourteen with the engraver Skelton in London and exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1798 to 1801.
1 portrait in the collection
Ann Mary Windeyer, 1847
G Ziegler
Portrait, pastel and gouache on paper laid down on backing sheet
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Joanna Russell Maher (née Windeyer) 2018
Men of the Day No.19 "A great Med'cine-Man among the Inqui-ring Redskins" (Thomas Henry Huxley), 1871
Carlo Pellegrini, Vanity Fair Magazine
Portrait, chromolithograph on paper
Purchased 2015
2012-13 Acquisition Fund
Annual Appeal
The Circle of Friends Acquisition Fund for 2012 was dedicated to purchasing a portrait of David Malouf by Rick Amor.