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Hugo at home (Hugo Weaving), 2011

Purchased with funds provided by the Liangis family 2012

Study for John Bell as King Lear, 1998-2001

Gift of the artist 2010. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

Richard Roxburgh, 2014

Gift of the artist 2017. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

John Olsen AO, CBE, 2017

Gift of the artist 2019. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

Robert Drewe (in the swell), 2006

Purchased 2010

Great stylists: Caruso, Melba, Pavarotti, Bonynge and Sutherland, 1983

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Eric Harding and Athol Hawke 2002

Major James Semple-Lisle, c. 1799

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2009

Nicholas Harding

Nicholas Harding (1956–2022) was one of Australia's most highly regarded artists, known for his portraits and drawings, and his light-filled, vigorously painted images of the bush and the coast.

5 portraits in the collection

Robert Drewe

Artist Nicholas Harding talks about what was captured in his portrait of Robert Drewe.

Nicholas Harding

Artist Nicholas Harding talks about how he became interested in portraiture, and his motivation in painting Hugo Weaving.

Nicholas Harding

Over the years the young Nicholas Harding got his hands on various mice and guinea pigs, but they served mainly to illustrate the concept of mortality. 

Nicholas Harding: 28 Portraits

Sarah Engledow looks at three decades of Nicholas Harding's portraiture.

J. Harding

Details of the engraver of the portrait of Semple-Lisle are few..

1 portrait in the collection

Head study for portrait of Margaret Olley, 1994

Bequest of Nick Enright AM 2004

Undercurrent

Dr Sarah Engledow writes about the portraiture of Australian artist Nicholas Harding.

Lear unbuttoned

Sarah Engledow steps up to the footlights and applauds the storyline behind Nicholas Harding's portraits of actor John Bell.