Stephanie Alexander AO (b. 1940), cook, restaurateur, food writer and philanthropist, has been a major influence on Australian food and culinary culture for 50 years.
1 portrait in the collection
Alexander Forrest was a delegate from Western Australia at the Constitutional Convention, Sydney 1891.
1 portrait in the collection
Jock Sturrock (1915–1997) was skipper of Gretel, the first Australian American’s Cup challenger in 1962 and was named Australian of the Year for his ‘plucky attempt’, his ‘modest and manly bearing’ and the ‘sporting spirit’ in which he and his crew accepted defeat.
1 portrait in the collection
Alexander Ramsay CBE (1914-1978), public servant, trained and worked as a teacher before gaining his degree at the University of Adelaide in 1941.
1 portrait in the collection
Sir Alexander Campbell Onslow (1842-1908), judge, was educated at Cambridge and practised law in England before being appointed attorney general of British Honduras in 1878.
1 portrait in the collection
Alexander Dalrymple (1737-1808), hydrographer and writer, began work with the East India Company in Madras in 1752.
1 portrait in the collection
Alexander McLeay (aka Macleay) (1767-1848), public servant and entomologist, acquired an interest in insects while working as a clerk in London.
1 portrait in the collection
Alex Miller (b. 1936), one of Australia’s most decorated and popular authors, migrated from England to Australia on his own as a sixteen-year-old.
3 portraits in the collection
Keith Alexander Laught (1907-1969), politician, was born in Adelaide and educated at Scotch College and then the University of Adelaide, becoming a barrister in 1929.
1 portrait in the collection
David Alexander Stewart Campbell (1898-1970), wool buyer and journal editor, undertook a woolclassing course in Sydney, worked as a jackeroo, served in the AIF in Egypt and gained further experience with wool in England before he was inducted into the wool trade in Melbourne.
1 portrait in the collection
Sir Alexander Fuller-Acland-Hood Bart MP (1853-1917) was MP for West Somerset from 1892 to 1911, when he was created Lord St Audries.
1 portrait in the collection
Guy Stuart (1942-2024) studied under John Brack at Melbourne Grammar School between 1956 and 1960.
1 portrait in the collection
Charles Wallace Alexander Napier Cochrane-Baillie, 2nd Baron Lamington (1860–1940) had served four years in the House of Commons before being appointed governor of Queensland in October 1895.
1 portrait in the collection
Stuart O'Grady (b. 1973) a European-based Australian professional cyclist.
1 portrait in the collection
Gilbert Stuart was an American painter who arrived in London by way of Scotland in 1775.
1 portrait in the collection
Stuart Campbell, born in Ballarat, became interested in photography as a student at Swinburne Technical College in Melbourne.
10 portraits in the collection