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Hugh Kingsley Ward
Biography
Hugh Kingsley Ward MC (1887-1972), bacteriologist, was educated at Sydney Grammar and the University of Sydney before being awarded the Rhodes Scholarship in 1911 and proceeding to Oxford.
1 portrait in the collection
Hugh Adamson
Biography
Hugh Adamson (b. 1952), artist, was born in Goroke, Victoria but is a long-time resident of Adelaide.
1 portrait in the collection
Hugh Hamilton
Biography
Hugh Hamilton (b. 1957) is a photographer and videographer who works between Sydney and Los Angeles.
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
Hugh Jackman AC
Biography
Hugh Jackman AC (b. 1968) is the ultimate triple threat – actor, singer and dancer.
1 portrait in the collection
Sir Leslie Ward
Biography
Sir Leslie Ward (1851-1922), signing his work 'Spy', was the most famous of the stable of caricaturists, including Sir Max Beerbohm and Carlo Pellegrini, who worked for the weekly English magazine Vanity Fair from 1869 to 1914.
31 portraits in the collection
Bryan Brown AM
Biography
Bryan Brown AM (b. 1947), actor and producer, worked as an insurance salesman before doing theatre in Australia and London.
2 portraits in the collection
Arthur Vernon
Biography
Arthur Vernon was the general secretary of the United Labourers’ Protective Society, a delegate to the Sydney Labour Council, a member of the Eight Hours committee, and a Labour alderman of the city for Cook ward.
1 portrait in the collection
Peter O'Shaughnessy OAM
Biography
Peter O'Shaughnessy (1923-2013), actor and producer, has produced many Australian plays and acted the major Shakespearian tragic roles both in Australia and overseas.
1 portrait in the collection
Anthony Charles Carden
Biography
Anthony Charles Carden (1961–1995), activist and actor, became interested in performance while a school student at Knox Grammar, Wahroonga.
1 portrait in the collection
Rod McNicol
Biography
Rod McNicol (b. 1946), photographic artist, studied photography at Prahran College in Melbourne, where he formed a close friendship with Athol Shmith.
1 portrait in the collection
Janet Keats
Biography
Janet le Brun Brown (Keats) (1900-1985), soprano, was born on her family's property, Riggsdale, near Goulburn, but on account of frailty she was sent to live with her grandparents in Inverell, Moree and Dungog before going to boarding school in the Blue Mountains and Gosford.
1 portrait in the collection
Captain James King
Biography
James King (c. 1750-1784), naval officer, was born in Lancashire and educated at Clitheroe Grammar School before entering the navy in 1762.
1 portrait in the collection
Colleen McCullough
Biography
The novelist Colleen McCullough (1937–2015) was born in Wellington, New South Wales.
1 portrait in the collection
Hayward Veal
Biography
Hayward 'Bill' Veal was born in Eaglemont, Victoria, and studied in Melbourne with AD Colquhoun and Max Meldrum between the ages of fifteen and twenty-four.
1 portrait in the collection
Nick Enright AM
Biography
Nick Enright (1950-2003), playwright and screenwriter, attended Sydney University and the New York University School of the Arts before establishing himself as a dramatist with plays such as Summer Rain and Mongrels.
2 portraits in the collection