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Thomas Atkinson
Biography
Thomas Lewis Atkinson (1817-c. 1890) is described in the Benezit Dictionary of Artists as 'one of the shining representatives of English engraving'.
1 portrait in the collection
Sharon Atkinson-Firebrace
Biography
Sharon Atkinson-Firebrace is a Yorta Yorta woman. She studied business at TAFE before working as an accounting officer at the NSW Aboriginal Land Council and as a bookkeeper for a farming business.
1 portrait in the collection
Harry O'Reilly
Biography
Harry O'Reilly was a war artist working through WWI and friend of Colonel J.C.M.
1 portrait in the collection
Harry Borden
Biography
Harry Borden is an English photographer who has specialised in photographing celebrities, among them Kylie Minogue.
1 portrait in the collection
Harry Williams
Biography
Harry Williams (b. 1951) is a Wiradjuri man and the first Indigenous footballer to represent Australia at international level.
1 portrait in the collection
Harry Hudson
Biography
Harry Hudson (1907-1974) was a Melbourne-based painter. His work was included in a number of group exhibitions at the Bridget McDonnell Gallery, Carlton in the 1980s along with those of such notable artists as Roland Wakelin, Grace Cossington-Smith and James Gleeson.
1 portrait in the collection
Harry Hopman
Biography
Harry Hopman (1906-1985), tennis professional, won seven major Australian titles in the 1930s, notably four mixed doubles with his first wife, Nell Hall.
1 portrait in the collection
Harry Kewell
Biography
Harry Kewell (b. 1978), Australia’s greatest ever soccer export, attended Sydney’s Westfields Sports High School and the NSW Soccer Academy before trialling with English club Leeds United in 1995, at the age of 16.
2 portraits in the collection
Harry Messel AC CBE
Biography
Harry Messel AC CBE (1922-2015), scientist and academic, was born in Canada and gained his qualifications there and in Scotland and Ireland.
2 portraits in the collection
Harry Seidler AC OBE
Biography
Harry Seidler AC OBE (1923–2006), architect and designer, was born in Vienna and completed his early architectural studies in England and Canada.
4 portraits in the collection
Sir Harry Holdsworth Rawson GCB GCMG
Biography
Sir Harry Holdsworth Rawson GCB GCMG (1843–1910) was appointed governor of New South Wales in January 1902 having distinguished himself in the course of various conflicts as an officer of the Royal Navy.
1 portrait in the collection
George Henry Stevens Trott
Biography
George Henry Stevens (Harry) Trott (1866–1917) was the captain of the Australian cricket team which toured England and then to the USA and New Zealand from June to November 1896.
1 portrait in the collection
Michele Aboud
Biography
Michele Aboud, commercial, fashion and portrait photographer, is a graduate of the Photographic College of London and UCLA.
1 portrait in the collection
Penelope Seidler AM
Biography
Penelope Seidler AM (b. 1938), architect, is one of three children of barrister and state parliamentarian Clive Evatt QC (1900–1984) and his wife Marjorie.
2 portraits in the collection
Tony Mitchell
Biography
Tony Mitchell was in a band called Wheelbarrow, who released a single, 'Dame Zara' before Mitchell left to join Harry Young and Sabbath.
3 portraits in the collection
Thomas Townshend, Lord Viscount Sydney
Biography
Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney PC (1733-1800) was British Home Secretary in the Pitt Government, given responsibility for devising a plan to settle convicts at Botany Bay.
1 portrait in the collection