This is a portrait of Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung man Tuart, also known as Jack Wetherly. He is bearded, depicted wearing an animal skin cloak, a bead necklace, and holding a boomerang. The painting is a nineteenth-century copy of a painting by Thomas Napier, 1840, displayed in Melbourne in 1843.
This painting was restored by the RHSV in 2019.
Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung man, known as Jack Wetherly.
Copy made by Thomas Clark of an original painting by Thomas Napier, original title ‘Jack Wetherly, a Victorian Native, 1840’.
Royal Historical Society of Victoria Collection, ART-0001
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