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Purchased with funds provided by L Gordon Darling AC CMG 2009

Dick Smith (b. 1944), businessman, aviator, film-maker and explorer, developed interests in radio and the bush as a boy.
2 portraits in the collection



Purchased 2018



Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2012



Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2001



Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2005



Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Sir Andrew Grimwade CBE 2018
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program

Sir Rupert ‘Dick’ Hamer AC KCMG (1916-2004) was premier of Victoria from 1972 to 1981.
1 portrait in the collection

George Milpurrurru (1934-1998), Ganalbingu (Yolgnu) painter, was one of the most important bark painters of the twentieth century.
1 portrait in the collection


Roderick Shaw (1915-1992) is perhaps best known for his worker paintings of the social realist school, such as Cable Layers (in the Art Gallery of NSW).
2 portraits in the collection

Dame Margaret Scott AC DBE (1922-2019) ballerina and teacher, was scarred by her education in a Johannesburg convent boarding school and left her home on a Swaziland farm in 1939.
1 portrait in the collection

Thanacoupie AO (1937–2011), ceramic artist, community worker, elder, and spokesperson, grew up as Gloria Fletcher in North Queensland.
1 portrait in the collection



Gift of Ronald A Walker 2009. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

Purchased with lead funds provided by the Dick and Pip Smith Foundation, the Nelson Meers Foundation and the Portrait Dinner Series 2025



Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2004