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Julius Schaar
Biography
Photographer Julius Schaar (1847-1904) operated a number of studios in Dusseldorf during the 1880s, producing portraits in the standard studio style of the period.
1 portrait in the collection
Amandus Julius Fischer
Biography
Amandus Julius Fischer (1859-1948) began his art studies in Sydney before proceeding to the Westminster School of art in London, and the Académie Julian and the Atelier Colarossi in Paris.
1 portrait in the collection
Ina Gregory
Biography
Georgina ‘Ina’ Gregory (1874-1964) grew up with her sister Ada at Rosedale, her family home in East St Kilda.
1 portrait in the collection
Roland Wakelin
Biography
Roland Wakelin was born in New Zealand and studied at the RAS school in Sydney under Dattilo Rubbo from 1912 to 1914.
1 portrait in the collection
Brett Whiteley
Biography
Brett Whiteley AO, artist, displayed a brilliant talent for drawing as a Sydney private schoolboy.
11 portraits in the collection
Sir Bernard Katz
Biography
Bernard Katz (1911-2003), winner of the 1970 Nobel prize for medicine with Ulf von Euler and Julius Axelrod, was naturalised as an Australian citizen in 1941.
1 portrait in the collection
Coral Browne
Biography
Coral Browne (1913-1991) was an Australian actress who left for England in 1934.
1 portrait in the collection
Lyall Trindall
Biography
Gordon Lyall Trindall (1886–1965), painter, gave up his Marrickville barbering business at the age of 26 to become an artist.
1 portrait in the collection
Steven Heathcote AM
Biography
Steven Heathcote AM (b. 1964), dancer, is The Australian Ballet's longest-serving principal artist from 1987 to 2007.
1 portrait in the collection
Bob Barnard AM
Biography
Bob Barnard AM (1933-2022), jazz cornettist, grew up in a Melbourne musical family and started on cornet with a local brass band at the age of 12.
1 portrait in the collection
John Perceval AO
Biography
John Perceval AO (1923-2000) was a painter and ceramic artist. Early on, along with Sidney Nolan, Arthur Boyd and Albert Tucker, he was part of a loose group of largely self-taught Australian artists, now known as the Angry Penguins, who rebelled against the conservatism of the art establishment.
10 portraits in the collection
Catherine Livingstone AC
Biography
Catherine Livingstone AC (b. 1955) has been chair of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia since January 2017.
1 portrait in the collection
George Barrington
Biography
George Barrington (1755-1804) was the best-known 'gentleman thief' of late eighteenth-century London.
3 portraits in the collection
Wendy Whiteley OAM
Biography
Wendy Whiteley OAM (b. 1941) is recognised as cultural icon, gardener and activist, who first came to prominence as the wife of renowned Australian artist Brett Whiteley.
1 portrait in the collection
William H. Bardwell
Biography
William H. Bardwell, photographer, worked at various premises in Ballarat from 1858 until 1895.
1 portrait in the collection
Richard Pratt
Biography
Richard Pratt (1934-2009), businessman, came to Australia with his parents, Polish Jews, in 1938.
2 portraits in the collection