This is a portrait of Boon 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.
Boon 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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