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Henri van Raatle, c. 1910
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Purchased with funds provided by L Gordon Darling AC CMG 2009
Henri van Raatle
Biography
Henri van Raalte (1881-1929), etcher and curator, moved to Western Australia in 1910 having trained in his home town of London and at schools in Belgium and Holland.
1 portrait in the collection
Conrad Westermayr after Jean Henri Cless
François Péron, c. 1805
Portrait, engraving on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2010
Rosemary Madigan
Alice Giles, 1984
Portrait, pastel on paper
Gift of Alice Giles AM, in memory of her mother Rosemary Madigan 2023
David Malin
Self portrait, 1976 (printed 2005)
Portrait, type C photograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2005
Timothy Noble
Charles Blondin, 1874
Portrait, carte de visite photograph
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2018
Emily Hunt
(Leila Waddell) Chain of being, 2023-2024
Portrait, etching on paper
Gift of the artist 2025. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Listening to form
Magazine article by Jane Kinsman, 2007
National Gallery of Australia curator Jane Kinsman discusses the portraiture of Henri Matisse.
Jacques van Meergeren
Biography
Jacques Henri Emil van Meegeren was a Dutch illustrator and painter. He is the the son of the infamous art forger, Han van Meegeren [Henricus Antonius] (1899-1947) who produced several paintings in the 1930s and 1940s which he passed off as originals by Vermeer , Pieter de Hooch and others..
1 portrait in the collection
Antoine Fauchery
Biography
Antoine Fauchery (1823–1861) was a Parisian artist and writer, an occasional collaborator with Henri Murger, author of Scènes de la vie de bohème which was a chief source of the opera La bohème.
2 portraits in the collection
Insightful
Magazine article by Robert McFarlane, 2004
Henri-Cartier-Bresson invented the grammar for photographing life in the 20th century.
Capturing the Mouse
Magazine article by Dr Sarah Engledow, 2004
Nancy Wake AC (b. 1912), one of the most decorated women of World War 2, earned the name the 'White Mouse' for her maddening ability to evade the Gestapo.
Elvis at 21 media information
25 October 2013
Archived media releases 2013
Press releases and images downloads for media.
Nancy Wake AC
Biography
Nancy Wake AC (1912–2011) was one of the most-decorated women of the Second World War.
1 portrait in the collection
Michael Kimmelman
Magazine article by Pamela Gray, 2002
Michael Kimmelman, Chief Art Critic of The New York Times and author of Portraits: Talking with Artists at the Met, the Modern, the Louvre and Elsewhere, presented the National Portrait Gallery Third Anniversary Lecture on 2 March 2002. He was generously brought to Australia by the Gordon Darling Foundation and Qantas.
Myles Nelson
Finalist interviews
It was definitely a candid encounter as was the expression on the face. It was constructed insofar as the image was deliberately taken from a distance so as to minimize intrusion and to magnify the effect of the image.