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Richard Avedon People
Previous exhibition, 2013
American photographer Richard Avedon produced portrait photographs that defined the twentieth century. Developed in partnership with the Richard Avedon Foundation in New York, the first Australian exhibition of Avedon’s bold portraits reveals the glamour and drama of his iconic artistic work.
The Avedon effect
Magazine article by Dr Christopher Chapman, 2013
Dr Christopher Chapman explores how we can understand Richard Avedon's photographs.
The existential lens
Magazine article by Stephen Zagala, 2013
Stephen Zagala discusses Richard Avedon’s work from an Australian perspective.
Richard Windeyer, c. 1828
Charles Richard Bone
Portrait, watercolour on ivory in a gold pendant with a lock of hair and gold thread
Gift of the Windeyer family 2009. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Richard Windeyer
Biography
Richard Windeyer (1806-1847), journalist, barrister and politician, was the eldest of the ten children born to Charles Windeyer and his wife Ann Mary and remained in England when the rest of his family went to New South Wales.
3 portraits in the collection
Richard Larter
Biography
Richard Larter (1929-2014) was born in London, where he encountered and was influenced by the new generation of young British Pop artists of the 1950s and early 1960s.
6 portraits in the collection
Richard Walsh
Biography
Sydney-born Richard Walsh (b. 1941) is an Australian publisher, journalist, broadcaster, editor, lecturer and company director.
1 portrait in the collection
Richard Howe
Biography
Richard Howe (1st Earl Howe, 1726–1799), naval commander, served in the Royal Navy for over fifty years, seeing action in the Seven Years War, the American Wars of Independence and the French Revolutionary Wars.
1 portrait in the collection
Richard Read Jnr
Biography
Richard Read junior arrived in Sydney from his native London in November 1819.
2 portraits in the collection
Richard Bonynge AO CBE
Biography
Richard Bonynge AO CBE (b. 1930), conductor, won a scholarship to the Sydney Conservatorium of Music when he was twelve.
1 portrait in the collection
Richard von Marientreu
Biography
Richard von Marientreu was born in Poland and attended military academies in Cracow and Vienna before leaving for Prague, where he studied at the Academy of Painting.
2 portraits in the collection
Richard Bell
Biography
Richard Bell (b. 1953), an artist of Gamilaraay (Kamilaroi) and Anglo-Celtic heritage, has described himself as an 'inactivist who kicked the habit'.
1 portrait in the collection
Richard Humphry AO
Biography
Richard Humphry AO (b. 1939) was the managing director and CEO of Australian Stock Exchange Ltd from 1994 to 2004, during which period, in 1998, the ASX became the first exchange in the world to simultaneously demutualise and list on its own exchange.
1 portrait in the collection
Richard Daintree
Biography
Failing as a prospector, Richard Daintree (1832-1878) started work as an assistant geologist in 1854, and returned to London to study assaying and metallurgy; while abroad, he became interested in photography.
2 portraits in the collection
Sir Richard Owens
Biography
Sir Richard Owen (1804–1892), naturalist, anatomist and palaeontologist, was born in Lancaster and apprenticed to surgeon-apothecaries there before completing his studies in medicine in Edinburgh and London.
1 portrait in the collection
Richard Rouse
Biography
Richard Rouse (1774-1852), grazier and landowner, came to New South Wales in 1801 as a free settler with his wife Elizabeth (née Adams, 1772-1849) and the first two of their nine children.
1 portrait in the collection