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H B. Hall
Biography
Henry Bryan Hall grew up in England and began his trade as an apprentice to the engravers Benjamin Smith and Henry Meyer.
1 portrait in the collection
Peter Hall
Biography
Peter Hall (1931-1995), architect, completed the Sydney Opera House after the Danish architect Jørn Utzon resigned from the project and left Australia in 1966.
1 portrait in the collection
Rodney Hall OAM
Biography
Rodney Hall OAM (b. 1935), writer, came to Australia in 1947 and settled in Brisbane.
2 portraits in the collection
Rose Lindsay
Biography
Rose Lindsay (née Soady, 1885-1978), artist's model, posed for Sydney Long, Antonio Dattilo Rubbo and Fred Leist before she met Norman Lindsay in 1902.
5 portraits in the collection
Lionel Lindsay
Biography
Sir Lionel Lindsay (1874-1961), graphic artist, was the brother of Norman, Percy, Daryl and Ruby Lindsay and shared with his siblings an early obsession with drawing and printmaking.
5 portraits in the collection
Percy Lindsay
Biography
Percy Lindsay (1870-1952), artist, was the eldest child of Robert and Jane Lindsay, born, as were his nine siblings, in Creswick, Victoria.
4 portraits in the collection
Norman Lindsay
Biography
Norman Lindsay (1879-1969), artist, cartoonist, and writer, came from a family that produced five artists.
14 portraits in the collection
Ruby Lindsay
Biography
Ruby Lindsay (1885-1919), artist and illustrator, left home at 16 and went to Melbourne where she studied at the National Gallery School.
3 portraits in the collection
Adam Lindsay Gordon
Biography
Adam Lindsay Gordon (1833-1870) was a poet and horseman. Well-educated, from a relatively well-to-do family, he learned to ride as a boy in England and secured a position in the South Australian Mounted Police in 1852.
1 portrait in the collection
Andrew Gaze AM
Biography
Andrew Gaze (b. 1965), basketballer and coach, was born into a prominent basketballing family.
1 portrait in the collection
Joseph Croft
Biography
Joseph Croft (c. 1926–1996), Aboriginal activist, was a Gurindji/Mudpurra man from the Northern Territory and member of the Stolen Generations.
1 portrait in the collection
George Coates
Biography
George Coates, Melbourne-born artist, started his art career in a stained glass workshop, attending classes with Frederick McCubbin at the National Gallery school at night.
1 portrait in the collection
Will Dyson
Biography
Will (William Henry) Dyson, cartoonist, caricaturist, writer and draughtsman, was born in Alfredtown, near Ballarat, and studied for a short time in Melbourne, where he worked closely with his older brother Ambrose.
11 portraits in the collection
Leon Gellert
Biography
Leon Gellert (1892-1977), poet and journalist, was a physical education teacher at Hindmarsh Public School in his native Adelaide in 1914.
1 portrait in the collection
Leonard French
Biography
Leonard French OBE (1928-2017) left school at fourteen to become an apprentice signwriter in his native Melbourne.
3 portraits in the collection
Michael Desmond
Biography
Michael Desmond worked at the National Portrait Gallery first as Senior Curator from 2006 to 2011 then as Deputy Director until 2012.