Woureddy, a wild native of Brune Island

Woorrady (active 1830s, d. 1842), a Nuennone man from Bruny Island, was a skilled boat builder and spoke five dialects. Along with his partner Trukanini, Woorrady travelled with George Augustus Robinson on his 'conciliatory' mission around Van Diemen's Land. Despite Robinson's project, in the years following European settlement it was believed that the Palawa people were destined to die out, and several artists sought to make ethnographic or artistic representations of them before it was too late. Woorrady and Trukanini were popular subjects; portraits were also made of them by Benjamin Law, Thomas Bock and Thomas Napier, who each spelled their names differently. Benjamin Duterrau, who arrived in Van Diemen's Land in 1832, created the first Australian history paintings with his images celebrating Robinson's mission. His large oil portraits of Trukanini and Woorrady were amongst the first artworks acquired for a public collection in Australia.