MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA.- Artist Clive Murray-White inspects the sculpture he created of great philanthropist Alfred Felton at the National Gallery of Victoria to mark the centenary of his bequest, the largest in the world at the time, in Melbourne. The Felton Bequest is one of Australia's oldest charitable foundations and was established by Felton in 1904 with a donation of 383,163 pounds (about 40 million dollars in today's terms) and is responsible for the gallery being one of the leading galleries in the world.

Alfred Felton was born in East Anglia in 1831, arriving in Melbourne in 1853 to catch the glory days of the Gold Rush. He tested his talents as a merchant and as a pharmaceuticals manufacturer, and accumulated a spectacular fortune.

John Poynter, author of Mr Felton's Bequests stated: "He was one of these remarkable generation of Melbourne merchants, who really dominated the whole Australian economy after the gold rushes. He and his business partner (F.S. Grimwade) were wholesale druggists who moved into chemical works and bottle works. He created one of the few 19th century bottle works that survived, and is still here today as ACI. In his 50s he expanded his interests to pastoral pursuits, buying rural properties like Murray Downs."