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Portrait 22

December 2006 - February 2007

This issue of Portrait Magazine features Frank Packer, unconventional portraits of Prime Ministers, Glenn McGrath, Sam Haskins, Steve Irwin and more.

John Shirlow

John Shirlow

John Shirlow (1869-1936) etcher, was the first Australian to make etching the basis of his career.

1 portrait in the collection

Sir Sidney Kidman

Sir Sidney Kidman

Sir Sidney Kidman

Sir Sidney Kidman, 1932

Portrait, charcoal heightened with white chalk on paper

Purchased 2009

Portrait of Deborah Vernon Hackett

Portrait of Deborah Vernon Hackett

Portrait of Deborah Vernon Hackett

Portrait of Deborah Vernon Hackett, c. 1905

Florence Ada Fuller

Portrait, oil on canvas

Purchased with funds provided by Marilyn Darling AC 2005

What the world needs now is love, 2012 by Jeremy Shaw

What the world needs now is love, 2012

Margel and Tarquin, Canberra

Margel Hinder AM

Margel Hinder AM (née Harris) (1906-1995), sculptor, trained in Buffalo and Boston in the 1920s.

1 portrait in the collection

Ita Buttrose

Ita Buttrose AC OBE

Ita Buttrose AO OBE (b.1942) is one of the few women to have achieved a high public profile in Australia in the 1970s.

1 portrait in the collection

Troye Sivan, 2018 by James Brickwood

Troye Sivan, 2018

by James Brickwood

Portrait of Deborah Vernon Hackett

Lady Deborah Vernon Hackett

Lady Deborah Vernon Hackett (1887–1965) was a mining company director and philanthropist.

1 portrait in the collection

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Gary Grealy

Gary Grealy (b. 1950) has established himself over many years as one of Sydney’s leading commercial and portrait photographers with work commissioned by leading advertising agencies and major national and international clients.

11 portraits in the collection

Albert Namatjira

Sir William Dargie

A Ninetieth Birthday Tribute

Previous exhibition, 2002

As a tribute to Sir William Dargie's singular contribution to Australian art and cultural institutions, and on the occasion of his birthday, The Australian War Memorial, Parliament House and the National Portrait Gallery will mount exhibitions of his work between May and October

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David Ramsey McNicoll CBE

David Ramsay McNicoll CBE (1914-2000) was editor-in-chief of Sir Frank Packer's Australian Consolidated Press from 1953 to 1972, and wrote an immensely popular column for the Bulletin magazine from 1972 to 1999.

1 portrait in the collection

Damien Parer

Damien Parer

Damien Parer (1912-1944), photographer and filmmaker, became friends with Max Dupain in the thirties, often taking photographs with him on excursions to the beach and bush.

2 portraits in the collection

Gough Whitlam

Prime Ministers

About Face article

On the day before the Hon. E. G. Whitlam, AC, QC, died last month, at the great age of 98, there were seven former prime ministers of Australia still living, plus the incumbent Mr. Abbott – eight in all.

Lady Packer

Lady Florence Packer

Lady Florence Packer (1915-2012) was born in Paris to Edmond Porges, a major in the British Army, and his Russian wife Marie-Mathilde Brodsky.

1 portrait in the collection

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