Cultural depictions of Ned Kelly Products manufactured a die-cast "Ned Kelly" repeating cap pistol, which was widely marketed in the mid-1940s. Its design bore no obvious attempt at historic relevance. The distinctive homemade armour Kelly wore for his final unsuccessful stand against the police was the subject of a famous series of paintings by Sidney Nolan. Ned Kelly is a recurring theme in the work of Ha-Ha (Regan Tamanui), one of Melbourne's foremost street artists. Since 2002, he has put up many stencils of Ned Kelly's face in the laneways of Melbourne, which have become an icon of Melbourne street art. He described Kelly as
Ned Painter Ned Painter Edward Painter (1784 – 18 September 1852), better known as Ned Painter, was an English bare-knuckle prize fighter. He was born in Stretford, then in Lancashire, and was possibly the son of John and Mary Painter baptised at St Mary's Church Stretford on 15 February 1784. Painter is known to have served time in King's Bench Prison. His first fight was against the Irish boxer J. Coyne, who stood tall and weighed ; Painter was a stone lighter and 5 ft in (1.77 m). The contest took place at St Nicholas near Margate on 23 August 1813, and