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Kevin Gilbert, 1972
Evelyn Kirwan
Portrait, oil on canvas
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2013
Evelyn Chapman
Biography
Evelyn Chapman studied with Dattilo Rubbo in Sydney and travelled overseas to paint in Paris, where she exhibited at the Salon.
1 portrait in the collection
Self portrait, 1911
Evelyn Chapman
Portrait, oil on canvas
Gift of Pamela Thalben-Ball 2007
Lovers of light
Magazine article by Dr Sarah Engledow, 2008
Dr Sarah Engledow traces the significant links between Antonio Dattilo-Rubbo and Evelyn Chapman through their portraits.
![A Police Magistrate [Evelyn Pitfield Shirley Sturt]](/files/d/4/8/0/i13476-sl.jpg "A Police Magistrate [Evelyn Pitfield Shirley Sturt]")
![A Police Magistrate [Evelyn Pitfield Shirley Sturt]](/files/d/4/8/0/i13476-ths.jpg "A Police Magistrate [Evelyn Pitfield Shirley Sturt]")
A Police Magistrate [Evelyn Pitfield Shirley Sturt], 1874
Tom Durkin, The Weekly Times
Portrait, lithograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2018
Portrait 28
June - August 2008
Magazine
This issue of Portrait Magazine features Harold Cazneaux, nineteenth-century carte de visites, Tim Winton, Antonio Dattilo-Rubbo, Evelyn Chapman and more.
Pamela Thalben-Ball
Biography
Pamela Thalben-Ball (1927–2012), daughter of the artist Evelyn Chapman, studied art at the Heatherley Art School in London from 1946 to 1950.
2 portraits in the collection
Dolores Scott
Biography
When Michael Riley photographed Dolores Scott in the 1980s, she was a dancer with the National Aboriginal Islander Skills Development Association.
1 portrait in the collection
Delores, 1990 (printed 2013)
Michael Riley
Portrait, inkjet print on paper
Purchased 2013
Sophisticated and glamorous
Magazine article by Amanda Rowell, 2015
Michael Riley’s early portraits by Amanda Rowell.
The incomparable Beaton
Magazine article by Dr Sarah Engledow, 2005
To accompany the exhibition Cecil Beaton: Portraits, held at the NPG in 2005, this article is drawn from Hugo Vickers's authorised biography, Cecil Beaton (1985).