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Eleanor Wingate
Biography
Eleanor Wingate (née Rouse, 1813–1898) was the second youngest daughter of colonial public servant and landowner Richard Rouse (1774–1852) and his wife Elizabeth (née Adams, 1772–1849), who’d come to Sydney as free settlers in 1801.
1 portrait in the collection
Eleanor Dark AO
Biography
Eleanor Dark AO (1901-1985), writer, was born and educated in Sydney but moved to the Blue Mountains to live after her marriage in 1922.
1 portrait in the collection
Eleanor Constance Gude
Biography
Eleanor Constance 'Nornie' Gude (1915–2002) was born in Ballarat and was fifteen when she was accepted to study painting at the Ballarat Technical Art School.
1 portrait in the collection
Hugh Ramsay
Biography
Hugh Ramsay (1877-1906), painter, was born in Scotland but arrived in Australia as a baby.
3 portraits in the collection
Alexander Ramsay
Biography
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
Andrew Mitchell Ramsay
Biography
Andrew Mitchell Ramsay (1809-1869), clergyman, was Melbourne's first Presbyterian minister.
1 portrait in the collection
Ambrose Patterson
Biography
Ambrose Patterson (1877-1967) was a printmaker, painter and teacher. Like Ramsay, Patterson studied under Bernard Hall at the National Gallery School.
1 portrait in the collection
David Ramsey McNicoll CBE
Biography
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
William John Pickett Bedford
Biography
William John Pickett Bedford (1805–1869) was the eldest of three children of Anglican clergyman, William Bedford (1781–1852), and his wife, Eleanor, and came to Van Diemen’s Land with his family in 1823 following the appointment of his father to a chaplaincy in the colony.
1 portrait in the collection
Elle Macpherson
Biography
Elle Macpherson (b. 1964) is an entrepreneur, model, actor and television host.
1 portrait in the collection
Lewis Miller
Biography
Lewis Miller (b. 1959), artist, won the Archibald Prize in 1998 with one of his many portraits of fellow artist Allan Mitelman, and has been a finalist seventeen times.
4 portraits in the collection
Rod McGeoch
Biography
Rod McGeoch AM (b. 1946) studied law at the University of Sydney before joining the ABC to forge a long career as a law reporter, commentator and spokesman; with Margaret Throsby, he won the Golden Gavel Award for Excellence in Legal Reporting.
1 portrait in the collection
Hoda Afshar
Biography
Hoda Afshar was born Tehran, Iran in 1983. She completed a BFA (Photography) in Tehran, and PhD in Creative Arts at Curtin University.
1 portrait in the collection
Ada May Plante
Biography
Ada May Plante (1875–1950), artist, was born in New Zealand and came to Melbourne with her family in 1888.
1 portrait in the collection
Robert Hannaford AM
Biography
Robert Hannaford AM (b. 1944), a largely self-taught artist, grew up on his family farm near the small South Australian town of Riverton before working as political cartoonist for the Adelaide Advertiser from 1964 to 1967.
6 portraits in the collection
Glyn Davis AC
Biography
Professor Glyn Davis AC is Secretary to the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet.
1 portrait in the collection