He married Hannah Ellen Hilliard in October 1834, just prior to their emigration to Australia on the ship Sarah, arriving in Hobart Town on 15 February 1835.
[1] The busts were purchased by Judah Solomon (a convict turned businessman),[2] and there could be as many as 30 casts made, with 20 known to be held in private and public collections.
[7] In 2001, artist Julie Gough asked for the portrait busts to be excluded from the Collection Focus exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.
[12] In May 2010, David Hansen (former TMAG curator and then working for Sotheby's) was the joint winner of the annual Calibre Prize for an Outstanding Essay for his piece, "Seeing Truganini".
[13] A wooden model after of one of the busts (created by artist John Vink in 1990, inspired by Law) was removed from an international exhibition, The Beaded Links.
[15] In 2009, Aboriginal community leaders in Tasmania wrote to museums and galleries, asking for any copies of the portrait busts of Woureddy and Trucaninny, to be removed from display.
Pending further meetings, representatives of the community advised that the images of their ancestors should not be displayed without permission, as well as registering dismay at the description of Trucaninny as the last "full blood" Tasmanian aboriginal.
[18] The campaign began in response to a planned sale of the paired busts by Sotheby's in August 2009, with estimates between $500,000 and $700,000[19] and included protests outside the auction house in Melbourne.