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Phillip Parker King
Biography
Phillip Parker King RN (1791–1856) has been described as the first Australian-born person to succeed in the world outside the colonies.
1 portrait in the collection
Phillip Parker King, 1854
Thomas Woolner
Portrait, cast plaster
Purchased 2000
Phillip Law AC AO CBE
Biography
Phillip Law AC AO CBE (1912–2010), scientist and Antarctic explorer, developed an interest in the frozen continent as a boy.
1 portrait in the collection
Arthur Phillip
Biography
Arthur Phillip (1738–1814), first governor of New South Wales, began his career while a boy in London.
2 portraits in the collection
Phillip Noyce AO
Biography
Phillip Noyce AO (b. 1950), director, was part of the first student intake at the Australian Film and Television School in 1973.
2 portraits in the collection
Phillip Brophy
Biography
Maria Kozic (b. 1957), painter and sculptor, and Philip Brophy (b. 1959), film director, composer, performer and curator, collaborated in the avant-garde performance/happening group ??? (spoken as tsk tsk tsk) and other projects between 1977 and the mid-1980s.
1 portrait in the collection
Phillip Gudthaykudthay
Biography
Philip Gudthaykudthay (b. 1935) Liyagalawumirr (Yolgnu) bark painter, worked as a young man as a stockman, fencer and crocodile hunter around Milingimbi and Ramingining.
1 portrait in the collection
Dr Phillip Law, 1974
Dallas Hawes
Portrait, oil on canvas
Gift of Dr Phillip Law 2000. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Phillip Gudthaykudthay, 1986
Martin van der Wal
Portrait, inkjet print on rag paper
Purchased 2005
Phillip Noyce, 2002 (printed 2004)
Karin Catt
Portrait, type C photograph on paper
Purchased 2005
In the Lounge, 2006
by North Sullivan
Image
Philip Noyce on the set of 'Heatwave', Sydney, 1981 (printed 2000)
David Moore
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
The series 'David Moore: From Face to Face' was acquired as a gift of the artist and with financial assistance from Timothy Fairfax AC and L Gordon Darling AC CMG 2001
Arthur Phillip Esq., Captain General and Commander in Chief in & over the territory of New South Wales, 1789
W Sherwin after Francis Wheatley
Portrait, engraving on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2010
Set of 129 Royal Christmas Cards and three miscellaneous items, 1951-2001
an unknown artist
Portrait, offset print (tipped in), letter press (greeting), pen and ink (signature), embossed (royal emblem) on cardboard
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Patricia Tryon Macdonald 2005
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program
The medallion
About Face article
In recent years I have become fascinated by the so-called Sydney Cove Medallion (1789), a work of art that bridges the 10,000-mile gap between the newly established penal settlement at Port Jackson and the beating heart of Enlightenment England.
Maria Kozic and Philip Brophy 1, 1981, 1981 (printed 2012)
Robert Rooney
Portrait, inkjet print on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2012