Browse the portraits

Portrait of Diana Pockley

c. 1945

Thea Proctor

On display: Gallery Six

June Dally-Watkins

1959

Judy Cassab AO CBE

On display: Gallery Three

Aussie Icon: Portrait of Jenny Kee

2022

Adrienne Doig

On display: Gallery Six

An Afternoon (Aunty Jenny Munro at the Redfern Aboriginal Tent Embassy)…

Dr John Janson-Moore

On display: Gallery Four

Self Portrait #5

2008

William Yang, John Fukuda

On display: Gallery Five

Self Portrait #2

1947/2007

William Yang, an unknown artist

On display: Gallery Five

David Lloyd Jones

1944

Sir William Dobell OBE

On display: Gallery Three

Rupert C.W. Bunny

1928

Arthur T. Woodward

On display: Gallery Two

Self portrait

1948

Klaus Friedeberger

On display: Gallery Five

Smalltown Boy (Perth)

2018

The Huxleys

On display: Gallery Five

Smalltown Boy (Surfers Paradise)

2018

The Huxleys

On display: Gallery Five

Mirka by Mirka

2000

Mirka Mora

On display: Gallery Five

Mary Chomley

1909

Violet Teague

On display: Gallery Two

Self portrait

1900

Agnes Goodsir

On display: Gallery Two

Self portrait

1964

Arthur Boyd AC OBE

On display: Gallery Three

Portrait of Charles Blackman

1979

Judy Cassab AO CBE

On display: Gallery One

Leisel Jones

2015 (printed 2021)

Peter Brew-Bevan

On display: Gallery Six

Wesley Enoch and David McAllister

2020

Peter Brew-Bevan

On display: Gallery Four

Marc Besen AC and Eva Besen AO Featuring a favourite painting, Fred Williams…

Raelene Sharp

On display: Gallery Four

Elizabeth

2019

Anthea da Silva

On display: Gallery One

Self Portrait in a Brown Coat

1936

Christine A. Pecket

On display: Gallery Six

Hugh Jackman

2020

Vincent Fantauzzo

On display: Gallery One

Adut Akech with siblings Kim, Yar, Bior and Alakiir

2018 (printed 2020)

Charles Dennington

On display: Gallery Four

Tim Winton

2019

Sally Robinson

On display: Gallery One

The painter transmogrified and Mrs Smith

1973

Eric Smith

On display: Gallery Three

Self portrait as Sarah Wisse, Transported

1996

Margaret Woodward

On display: Gallery Eight

Tim Fairfax AC

2018

Russell Shakespeare

On display: Gallery Four

The Writer, Peter Goldsworthy

2018

Deidre But-Husaim

On display: Gallery Four

Mary Windeyer

c. 1891

Freeman Brothers

On display: Gallery Two

David Armstrong, B.A., B. Phil.

1959

Clifton Pugh AO

On display: Gallery Three

Portrait of Elioth Gruner

c. 1922

Norman Lindsay

On display: Gallery Two

Akira Isogawa

2003 (printed 2005)

Ingvar Kenne

On display: Gallery Six

An evening at Yarra Cottage, Port Stephens

1857

Maria Brownrigg

On display: Gallery Six

Dr J.R. Vickery, O.B.E.

1967

William Pidgeon

On display: Gallery Six

Sir Robert Menzies

c. 1952

Louis Kahan AO

On display: Gallery Three

Neville Bonner

c. 1971

Louis Kahan AO

On display: Gallery Three

Harold Holt

n.d.

Louis Kahan AO

On display: Gallery Three

Gough Whitlam

n.d.

Louis Kahan AO

On display: Gallery Three

Jarinyanu Dancing at Broome Festival

1990

Jarinyanu David Downs

On display: Gallery Five

Portrait of an Artist (Self portrait)

1944

David Strachan

On display: Gallery Three

Peter Elliott

1964

Jon Molvig

On display: Gallery Six

Russell Crowe

1995 (printed 2016)

Stuart Spence

On display: Gallery Four

Dame Enid Lyons

c. 1943

Justine Kong Sing

On display: Gallery Two

Lord Kitchener

n.d.

William Howitt

On display: Gallery Six

Mirka - 9 Collins Street

c. 1966 (printed 2015)

Lazar Krum

On display: Gallery Four

Dr Edward MacMahon

1959

Sir William Dobell OBE

On display: Gallery One

Discussion between Bob Hawke and Yunupingu, Burunga Festival, Northern…

Sue Ford

On display: Gallery Four

Susan Lord

c. 1840

Henry Mundy

On display: Gallery Six

Thomas White, midshipman

c. 1838

John Kay

On display: Gallery Six

Madame Melba

1922

Harold Cazneaux

On display: Gallery Two

Anna Pavlova

1926

Harold Cazneaux

On display: Gallery Two

Harold Cazneaux

1919

Florence Milson, Harold Cazneaux

On display: Gallery Two

George Lambert

c. 1929

Annie May Moore

On display: Gallery Two

Arthur and Ria Murch

1945

Margaret Michaelis

On display: Gallery Four

Mawalan Marika

c. 1963

Arthur Murch

On display: Gallery Three

Richard Walley

2015

Dr Julie Dowling

On display: Gallery Six

Fairie (A W Cox)

1910

Sir Leslie Ward, Hentschel-Colourtype, Vanity Fair Magazine

On display: Gallery Two

James T. Donovan

1892

Tom Roberts

On display: Gallery Two

Chris Wallace-Crabbe

2011

Kristin Headlam

On display: Gallery Four

Self portrait

1945-1946

Arthur Boyd AC OBE

On display: Gallery Five

Ivy Shore

1961

Graeme Inson

On display: Gallery Six

Dame Mabel Brookes

c. 1955

Sir William Dargie CBE

On display: Gallery Six

Sir Keith Murdoch

1944

Danila Vassilieff

On display: Gallery Three

Self portrait

1965

Jean Appleton

On display: Gallery Three

Bob Brown at his home in Liffey

1988 (printed 2013)

Helga Leunig

On display: Gallery Four

Portrait of Mrs Tom Roberts

1910

Tom Roberts

On display: Gallery Two

Self portrait

2006

Judy Cassab AO CBE

On display: Gallery Five

Self portrait with scarf

c. 1930s

Rupert Bunny

On display: Gallery Two

Self portrait

1949

Louis Kahan AO

On display: Gallery Five

Self portrait

1993

Tim Storrier

On display: Gallery Five

Portrait of Anne Summers

1974

Carol Jerrems

On display: Gallery Four

Caroline Jones

1978

David Campbell

On display: Gallery Four

Maisie

1938-1939

Peter Purves Smith

On display: Gallery Six

Rose Scott

1913

Annie May Moore

On display: Gallery Two

Judy Annear

1980

Robert Rooney

On display: Gallery Three

Janine Burke, c. 1980

1980 (printed 2012)

Robert Rooney

On display: Gallery Three

Kiffy Rubbo 2

1979

Robert Rooney

On display: Gallery Three

Jenny Watson 4, February 1979

1979 (printed 2012)

Robert Rooney

On display: Gallery Three

Study for self portrait

c. 1965

Jean Appleton

On display: Gallery Five

Errol Flynn

1938 (printed 2008)

George Hurrell

On display: Gallery Two

Study for "Portrait of the artist as an evolving landscape"

1991

James Gleeson

On display: Gallery Five

Ola Cohn

c. 1934

an unknown artist

On display: Gallery Four

The Sands Brothers

c. 1940s

an unknown artist

On display: Gallery Four

Portrait of Georges Mora

1956

Charles Blackman OBE

On display: Gallery Six

The chase

1952

Charles Blackman OBE

On display: Gallery Three

Ethel Anderson and her daughter, Bethia

c. 1912

G.W. Lawrie

On display: Gallery Two

The tennis player (Ken Rosewall)

2010

Sinead Davies

On display: Gallery Six

Self portrait, Paris

1989

Brett Whiteley

On display: Gallery Five

Woureddy [Wurati], an Aboriginal Chief of Van Diemen's Land

1835

Benjamin Law

On display: Gallery Six

Trucaninny [Trukanini], wife of Woureddy [Wurati]

1836

Benjamin Law

On display: Gallery Six

Sir John Franklin

c. 1845

D F. Murphy after E P. Hardy

On display: Gallery Six

Gloria Petyarre

2005

R. Ian Lloyd

On display: Gallery Four

Paquita Mawson

late 1940s

Ingrid Erns

On display: Gallery Six

Angry Anderson

2006

Sally Robinson

On display: Gallery Six

Marilyn Rowe

1981

Graham Thorley

On display: Gallery Six

Jessie Street

1929

Reginald Jerrold-Nathan

On display: Gallery Eight

Charles Joseph La Trobe

c. 1857

Samuel Bellin after Francis Grant

On display: Gallery Six

Self portrait

c. 1948

John Brack

On display: Gallery Three

Portrait of Johnson Pilton Walker, Inside the National Portrait Gallery,…

Ingvar Kenne

On display: Gallery Four

J.C. Williamson

c. 1913

John Longstaff

On display: Gallery Two

Untitled (portrait of Barbara Blackman)

1976

Charles Blackman OBE

On display: Gallery Three

Frank Wootton

c. 1908

Sir Leslie Ward, Hentschel-Colourtype, Vanity Fair Magazine

On display: Gallery Two

Self portrait

c. 1985

Bert Flugelman

On display: Gallery Five

Geo Face Distributor

2009

James Angus

On display: forecourt

Mr and Mrs Horace Keats in the "Christopher Brennan Cycle"

1945

Dora Toovey

On display: Gallery Eight

Field Marshal the Lord Birdwood

1938

Barbara Tribe

On display: Gallery Two

The Lawn at Flemington on Melbourne Cup Day

c. 1889

Goupil & Cie after Carl Kahler

On display: Gallery Two

Me

1992

Ken Done

On display: Gallery Five

Barbara Blackman

2008

Gorgi Dimcevski

On display: Gallery Four

Sir William Charles Windeyer

1892

Tom Roberts

On display: Gallery Six

Cadel Evans

2008

Matthÿs Gerber

On display: Gallery Six

Blue Mountain, Owner, Trainer, Jockey, James Scobie

1887

Frederick Woodhouse

On display: Gallery Two

Melodrama...

c. 1900

an unknown artist

On display: Gallery Two

Rose Lindsay in garden at Springwood with Peter the fox terrier

c. 1924

Harold Cazneaux

On display: Gallery Four

Sir Charles Lloyd Jones

1951

Sir William Dobell OBE

On display: Gallery Three

Sir Hudson Fysh

1950

Sir William Dobell OBE

On display: Gallery Three

Paul Kelly

2007

Martin Philbey

On display: Gallery Four

Norman Lindsay

1921

Harold Cazneaux

On display: Gallery Two

Andree Johnston-Bell

c. 1945

Walter Langhammer

On display: Gallery Six

Practising the Minuet (Miss Hilda Spong)

1893

Tom Roberts

On display: Gallery Two

Florence Austral

c. 1930

Howard Barron

On display: Gallery Two

Self portrait

1911

Evelyn Chapman

On display: Gallery Two

"The determined" Self portrait

2002

George Foxhill

On display: Gallery Five

Disillusion self portrait

1983

Mary MacQueen

On display: Gallery Five

Omai, A Native of Ulaietea

1774

Francesco Bartolozzi after Nathaniel Dance

On display: Gallery Six

Self portrait

1949

Frank Hinder

On display: Gallery Three

John Monash

1919

James Quinn

On display: Gallery Two

Lowitja O'Donoghue

2006

Robert Hannaford AM

On display: Gallery Six

Walter Lindrum OBE

c. 1932

Will Longstaff

On display: Gallery Six

Marcia Ella

2006

Sahlan Hayes

On display: Gallery Four

Portrait of Mr Frank Packer

1956

Judy Cassab AO CBE

On display: Gallery Three

Sketch portrait of Sir Alex Onslow

1896

Tom Roberts

On display: Gallery Two

Portrait of Alex Dimitriades

2005

Michael Zavros

On display: Gallery Six

L. Gordon Darling AC CMG

2006

Jiawei Shen

On display: foyer

A Portrait (Kate Hattam)

1956

Clifton Pugh AO

On display: Gallery Three

Lee Lin Chin

2005

Ingvar Kenne

On display: Gallery Six

Ron and Valerie Taylor

n.d.

an unknown artist

On display: Gallery Four

Sir Ian Potter

1973

Bryan Westwood

On display: Gallery Six

Hal Hattam

1960

Fred Williams

On display: Gallery Three

Joseph Brown

1980

Brian Dunlop

On display: Gallery Four

Self portrait

1988

Sidney Nolan

On display: Gallery Five

Study for the portrait of Aldo Giurgola

2005

Mandy Martin

On display: Gallery Four

Thea Proctor

c. 1896

an unknown artist

On display: Gallery Two

Lady Knox

c. 1927-1929

W B McInnes

On display: Gallery Two

Edward Knox

c. 1927-1929

W B McInnes

On display: Gallery Two

Sir Edward Holden

1945

Leslie Bowles

On display: Gallery Three

Portrait of Deborah Vernon Hackett

c. 1905

Florence Ada Fuller

On display: Gallery Two

Self portrait

2004

Peter Russell-Clarke

On display: Gallery Five

Jimmy Little

2003

Juno Gemes

On display: Gallery Four

Self portrait

1999

Rick Amor

On display: Gallery Five

Marea Gazzard

1966

Judy Cassab AO CBE

On display: Gallery Three

Thomas Keneally

1987

Bernd Heinrich

On display: Gallery Six

Jack Brabham

2004

Julie Edgar

On display: Gallery Six

Schulim Krimper

1968

Mark Strizic

On display: Gallery Four

Theresa Byrnes

1999

Greg Weight

On display: Gallery Four

Arthur and Yvonne

1993

Greg Weight

On display: Gallery Four

Peter Sculthorpe

1982

Eric Smith

On display: Gallery Three

Self portrait

c. 1984

Albert Tucker

On display: Gallery Five

Self portrait in plus fours

c. 1939 (cast 2003)

Lyndon Dadswell CMG

On display: Gallery Two

Portrait of George Selth Coppin

c. 1895-1899

Tom Roberts

On display: Gallery Two

Bruce Beresford on location

c. 1981 (printed 2004)

Robert McFarlane

On display: Gallery Four

Self portrait with gladioli

1922

George Lambert

On display: Gallery Eight

Arnold Haskell

1937

Max Dupain OBE

On display: Gallery Two

Tamara Tchinarova

1938

Max Dupain OBE

On display: Gallery Two

Marcia Hines

c. 1981

Lewis Morley

On display: Gallery Four

Florence Broadhurst

1975

Lewis Morley

On display: Gallery Four

Margaret Olley

1998

Lewis Morley

On display: Gallery Four

John Newcombe and family

1973

Lewis Morley

On display: Gallery Four

Portrait of Ambrose Patterson

1901-1902

Hugh Ramsay

On display: Gallery Two

Self portrait (Full Length in front of Easel)

1901-1902

Hugh Ramsay

On display: Gallery Two

Self portrait

c. 1934

Stella Bowen

On display: Gallery Two

Cathy Freeman

2000

David Caird

On display: Gallery Six

Study for Portrait of W S Robinson

1952

Sir William Dobell OBE

On display: Gallery Three

Portrait of Mrs Fairfax

n.d.

an unknown artist

On display: Gallery Six

Self portrait

1948

Grace Cossington Smith OBE

On display: Gallery Three

Ola Cohn

1961

Jean Goldberg

On display: Gallery Eight

Sir George Coles

1935

W B McInnes

On display: Gallery Two

Self portrait with pin-up

1965

Richard Larter

On display: Gallery Three

Portrait of Kenneth Rowell

1967

David Strachan

On display: Gallery Three

Self portrait

1990

Andrew Sibley

On display: Gallery Five

Self portrait

1990

Andrew Sibley

On display: Gallery Five

Andy Thomas

2002

Montalbetti + Campbell

On display: Gallery Six

Margaret Fulton

1980 (printed 2002)

Lewis Morley

On display: Gallery Four

Self portrait

2001

Jeffrey Smart AO

On display: Gallery Five

Major General Paul Cullen

2002

Mathew Lynn

On display: Gallery Six

George Judah Cohen

1925

George Lambert

On display: Gallery Two

Sir Charles Kingsford Smith and Captain Charles Ulm

1961

Sir William Dargie CBE

On display: Gallery Six

Joan Croll

1976

John Brack

On display: Gallery One

David Williamson

1974 (printed 2001)

Gordon Glenn

On display: Gallery Four

Arthur Streeton, Nora Streeton (nee Clench) and Pat, the dog

c. 1909

H. Walter Barnett

On display: Gallery Four

Russell Drysdale and Peter Sculthorpe, Tallow Beach, New South Wales

1969 (printed 2000)

David Moore

On display: Gallery Four

Gordon Andrews, Lovett Bay, Sydney

1987 (printed 2000)

David Moore

On display: Gallery Four

Dame Mary Gilmore

c. 1938

Lyall Trindall

On display: Gallery Two

Nora Heysen with her dog sitting outside her home, Hunters Hill, Sydney…

Sage

On display: Gallery Four

Tom Roberts

1920

Alice Mills

On display: Gallery Two

Albert Namatjira

1958

Sir William Dargie CBE

On display: Gallery Six

Dr Phillip Law

1974

Dallas Hawes

On display: Gallery Six

Maurice Ashkanasy CMG QC

1963

Karl Duldig

On display: Gallery Three

The family

c. 1955

Charles Blackman OBE

On display: Gallery Three

Portrait sketch of Nellie Melba

1902

Hugh Ramsay

On display: Gallery Two

Stanley Bruce

1937

Barbara Tribe

On display: Gallery Two

Bee Miles

1976

Roderick Shaw

On display: Gallery Three

Anthony Dattilo Rubbo

1935

Arthur Murch

On display: Gallery Three

Michael Klim

1999

Anderson & Low

On display: Gallery Four

Deborah Mailman

1999

Evert Ploeg

On display: Gallery One

Self portrait

between 1951 and 1953

Janet Dawson

On display: Gallery Three

Albert and his wife Rubina, Macdonnell Ranges

1946

Axel Poignant

On display: Gallery Four

Self portrait

1934

Nora Heysen AM

On display: Gallery Two

Louise Sauvage

1996 (printed 1999)

Montalbetti + Campbell

On display: Gallery Four

Ita Buttrose

1981

John Williams

On display: Gallery Four

Portrait bust of Dr Christine Rivett

c. 1950 (cast 1955-1956)

Daphne Mayo MBE

On display: Gallery Three

Dressing for dinner

1992

Davida Allen

On display: Gallery Six

Betty Burstall

1945

Arthur Boyd AC OBE

On display: Gallery Three

Emily Kame Kngwarreye with Lily

1993

Jenny Sages

On display: Gallery One

Barry Humphries

1958

Clifton Pugh AO

On display: Gallery Three