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The National Portrait Gallery acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of Country throughout Australia and recognises the continuing connection to lands, waters and communities. We pay our respect to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures and to Elders both past and present.

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Album of cartes de visite and cabinet card photograph including a portrait of John Tebbutt

Album of cartes de visite and cabinet card photograph including a portrait of John Tebbutt

Album of cartes de visite and cabinet card photograph including a portrait of John Tebbutt

Album of cartes de visite and cabinet card photograph including a portrait of John Tebbutt, c. 1870s

Portrait, leather-bound album of cartes de visite and cabinet cards, 46 page book, featuring 156 photographs

Gift of Mike MacPhail 2010

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Tan Le, 2018

Portrait, transparency between mirror substrates in LED lightbox

Commissioned with funds provided by the Sid and Fiona Myer Family Foundation 2018

Self portrait

Self portrait

Self portrait

Self portrait, c. 1948

Portrait, conté crayon on paper

Purchased with funds provided by Tim Fairfax AC 2010

Self portrait, c. 1799-1804 John Constable

Self portrait

Charles Darwin, 1883, based on a work of 1881 John Collier

Charles Darwin

William Shakespeare, c. 1600-1610 associated with John Taylor

William Shakespeare

associated with John Taylor

William Shakespeare, c. 1600-1610 associated with John Taylor

William Shakespeare

associated with John Taylor

William Shakespeare, c. 1600-1610 associated with John Taylor

William Shakespeare

associated with John Taylor

Self-portrait with bowler hat, 1885–6 by Paul Cézanne

Hail Cézanne

Magazine article by John Elderfield, 2017

John Elderfield lauds the portraiture of Paul Cézanne, the artist described by both Matisse and Picasso as ‘the father of us all’.

Jim Cobb at Chroma factory Mt Kuring-gai, NSW, 2017 by Mark Mohell

The alchemist’s profile

Magazine article by John Zubrzycki, 2017

John Zubrzycki meets Australian paint pioneer Jim Cobb.

Murray frees himself from straightjacket in public, 1928 by Sam Hood

Risky business

Magazine article by John Zubrzycki, 2016

John Zubrzycki lauds the characters of the Australian escapology trade.

Cross-cultural wedding, 2019 John Benavente

Cross-cultural wedding

Sarah Siddons (née Kemble), 1787 John Downman

Sarah Siddons (née Kemble)

Olivia Newton-John

Olivia Newton-John AC DBE

Olivia Newton-John AC DBE (1948-2022) came to Australia as a five-year-old with her father, Brin Newton John, who had worked on the Enigma project at Bletchley, and her mother, Irene Born, who was the daughter of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Max Born.

1 portrait in the collection

The Burke and Wills Monument

William John Wills

William John Wills (1834-1861) came to Victoria with his brother in early 1853.

3 portraits in the collection

Sir John Eccles

Sir John Carew Eccles AC FRS

Sir John Carew Eccles AC FRS FAA (1903-1997), neuroscientist, won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1963 for his discoveries concerning the ionic mechanisms involved in excitation and inhibition in the peripheral and central portions of the nerve cell membrane.

1 portrait in the collection

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