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Gift of Patrick Corrigan AM 2004. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.


Richard Edward O'Connor (1851-1912), barrister and judge, was raised and educated in Sydney.
1 portrait in the collection



Gift of Richard Woldendorp AM 2017


Kevin Gilbert (1933-1993), Indigenous activist, writer and artist, wrote the first play by an Aboriginal person to be publicly performed in Australia.
2 portraits in the collection

Kevin Weldon (1933-2023), businessman and philanthropist, spent his early years in Ingham in far north Queensland, where his father ran a car dealership.
1 portrait in the collection


In his speech launching the new National Portrait Gallery building on 3 December 2008, then Prime Minister Kevin Rudd set the Gallery in a national and historical context.



Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2011



Gift of Kevin Weldon 2012

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2013



Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2004



Gift of the artist 2010

