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Robert Lowe, Viscount Sherbrooke
Biography
Robert Lowe, Viscount Sherbrooke (1811-1892), politician, studied and tutored in law at Oxford before coming to Australia in 1842.
4 portraits in the collection
Robert Lowe (Viscount Sherbrooke), n.d.
Sem
Portrait, watercolour on card
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2012
Robert Lowe, Viscount Sherbrooke, 1870
Elliott and Fry
Portrait, carte de visite photograph
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2010
Meeting by Murder
Magazine article by Yvonne Audette AM, 2005
The story behind two colonial portraits; a lithograph of captain and convict John Knatchbull and newspaper illustration of Robert Lowe, Viscount Sherbrooke.
Statesmen, No. 4 "An enemy to democracy, yet a professor liberal principles, which tend to democracy; the combination will one day make him Prime Minister of England" (Viscount Robert Lowe), 1869
Carlo Pellegrini, Vanity Fair Magazine
Portrait, chromolithograph on paper
Purchased 2013
Statesmen No. 4 "An enemy to democracy, yet a professor of liberal principles, which tend to democracy; the combination will one day make him Prime Minister of England" (Viscount Robert Lowe), 1869
Carlo Pellegrini, Vanity Fair Magazine
Portrait, colour lithograph on paper
Gift of Leo Schofield AM 2005
Allan Lowe
Biography
Allan Lowe (1907-2007) is considered to be one of the major ceramic artists of his time particularly in the field of arthenware (lower-fired and more colourful work than stoneware).
1 portrait in the collection
Allan Lowe, c. 1955
Reshid Bey
Portrait, oil on canvas
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Alan Lowe and Marian Lowe 2000
Lowe Kong Meng
Biography
Lowe Kong Meng (1831–1888), merchant, was born and grew up in the British colony of Penang and came to Melbourne in 1853.
1 portrait in the collection
Lowe Kong Meng, 2017
Pamela See
Portrait, papercut silhouette drawing
Purchased 2019
Lowe Kong Meng, c. 1887
Ludwig Lang after Johnstone O'Shannessy & Co
Portrait, tinted lithograph on paper
Purchased 2015
Sidney Nolan and Robert Helpmann at Bonython Gallery, Adelaide Arts Festival, c. 1964 (printed 2015)
Robert McFarlane
Portrait, inkjet print on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 1999
Robert Earl of Buckinghamshire (Hobart), 1808
Robert Dunkarton after Sir Thomas Lawrence
Portrait, mezzotint on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2012
Robert Hunter, July 1978, 1978 (printed 2012)
Robert Rooney
Portrait, inkjet print on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2012
Robert Dessaix, 1998
Robert Hannaford AM
Portrait, oil on canvas
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Robert Dessaix 2000
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program
Stephen and Russell Page, 1993 (printed 2011)
Robert Rosen
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Gift of Robert Rosen 2012