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Bill May
Biography
Bill May (1915-1993), luthier, completed an apprenticeship in cabinetmaking and taught woodwork before founding Mayton Stringed Instruments and Repairs in the early 1940s.
1 portrait in the collection
Bill Neidjie OAM
Biography
Bill Neidjie OAM (c. 1913-2002), a Gagadju man, was the traditional custodian of the Kakadu area of the Northern Territory and spent most of his childhood in this region.
1 portrait in the collection
Bill Henson AO
Biography
Bill Henson AO was only 19 when his photographs were first exhibited at the National Gallery of Victoria in his home city of Melbourne.
1 portrait in the collection
Bill McAuley
Biography
Bill McAuley began his career as a photographer for newspapers and magazines in Melbourne in 1969.
9 portraits in the collection
Bill Hunter
Biography
Bill Hunter (1940-2011), actor, spent five decades on Australian television and cinema screens.
1 portrait in the collection
Bill Leak
Biography
Bill Leak (1956-2017), portrait painter and caricaturist, trained at the Julian Ashton art school in the mid-1970s, and began his career painting landscapes.
7 portraits in the collection
Bill Robertson CBE MC
Biography
Bill Robertson CBE MC (1917-2011), public servant, was educated at Melbourne Grammar and Oxford, where he graduated from the school of Natural Philosophy in 1939.
1 portrait in the collection
Bill Collins OAM
Biography
Bill Collins OAM (1934-2019), television movie host and critic, was a high school English teacher and lecturer at teachers’ college before beginning a record 55-year stint on Australian television.
1 portrait in the collection
The Hon. Bill Hayden AC
Biography
The Hon Bill Hayden AC (1933‒2023) was Governor-General of Australia from 1989 to 1996 and Leader of the Opposition from 1977 to 1983.
1 portrait in the collection
Fred Nile MLC
Biography
The Rev. Fred Nile MLC (b. 1934) Leader of the Christian Democratic Party was born and raised in King's Cross, Sydney.
1 portrait in the collection
William Beach
Biography
Bill Beach (1850-1935), sculler, came to New South Wales as a young boy with his English parents, who settled at Albion Park, NSW.
1 portrait in the collection
Roslyn Oxley
Biography
Roslyn Oxley AM, gallerist and art dealer, was born Roslyn Walton, the daughter of John Walton, owner of the department store Waltons.
1 portrait in the collection
Sir Robert Ponsonby Staples
Biography
Sir Robert Ponsonby Staples, third son of Sir Nathaniel Staples, Bt, was born in Northern Ireland, educated in Belgium, and studied architecture and art in Louvain, Dresden, Paris and London.
1 portrait in the collection
Claude Spurgeon Charlick
Biography
Claude Spurgeon Charlick (1893-1974), businessman, was managing director of the Adelaide firm Charlick Ltd for nearly forty years.
1 portrait in the collection
Bruce Pollard
Biography
Bruce Pollard (b. 1936), gallerist, established the Pinocotheca Gallery in a St Kilda mansion in 1967, and relocated it to an old hat factory in Richmond in 1970.
1 portrait in the collection
Hon. Alfred Deakin
Biography
Alfred Deakin (1856-1919), Australia's second, fifth and seventh Prime Minister, was central to the Federation movement.
1 portrait in the collection