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Bob and Dolly Dyer,
Ern McQuillan OAM
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2003
Bob Dyer
Biography
Bob Dyer (1909–1984), entertainer, was born in Tennessee and came to Australia in 1937.
1 portrait in the collection
Geoffrey Dyer
Biography
Geoff Dyer (1947-2020) was renowned landscape and portrait painter whose practice depicted Tasmania and its people.
1 portrait in the collection
Anne
Nathan Dyer
Image
"Poet of the Hawkesbury" Robert Adamson, 2012
Geoffrey Dyer
Portrait, oil on canvas
Gift of the artist 2013. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
An Australian in Paris
About Face article
This week it is impossible not to contemplate the ways in which France has touched many Australian lives.
Reg Campbell
Biography
Reg Campbell was a self-taught painter specialising in landscapes and portraits.
1 portrait in the collection
National Photographic Portrait Prize 2023
Learning resources
We encourage you to look, to feel, to think, to question and most importantly, to identify and connect.
The 2023 National Photographic Portrait Prize
16 June 2023
Media
Shea Kirk’s portrait of friend and fellow-artist Emma Armstrong-Porter has won the 2023 National Photographic Portrait Prize.
Inside outside
Magazine article by Michael Desmond, 2010
Michael Desmond explores the portraiture of Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud.
Portrait Donors
Listed by year
Honour board
Christmas Island
About Face article
This is my last Trumbology before, in a little more than a week from now, I pass to my successor Karen Quinlan the precious baton of the Directorship of the National Portrait Gallery.