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Sir George Ferguson Bowen, c. 1873
Bardwell's Royal Studio
Portrait, carte de visite photograph
Purchased with funds provided by Graham Smith 2009
Vice-Royalty. "A Quoter of Poetry" [George Bowen, Governor of Victoria], 1873
Tom Durkin, The Weekly Times
Portrait, lithograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2018
'The Australian Cricketers' from The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News June 1882, page 2
Unknown artist Publisher Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News
Image
Stella Bowen
Biography
Stella Bowen, painter and writer, grew up in Adelaide, where she studied with Margaret Preston.
1 portrait in the collection
Self portrait, c. 1934
Stella Bowen
Portrait, oil on cardboard
Purchased 2003
A Singular Line
Magazine article by Simon Elliott, 2003
A newly acquired work by Stella Bowen adds to the National Portrait Gallery's growing collection of important Australian self-portraits.
Give me five
Magazine article by Karen Quinlan AM, 2021
National Portrait Gallery director Karen Quinlan AM nominates her quintet of favourites from the collection, with early twentieth-century ‘selfies’ filling the roster.
'The Australian Cricketers' from The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News June 1882, 1882
an unknown artist, Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News
Portrait, engravings on paper
Purchased 2009
The Australasian Federal Convention at Sydney, 1884
The Graphic
Portrait, wood engraving on paper
Purchased 2015
George Judah Cohen, 1925
George Lambert
Portrait, oil on canvas
Gift of the National Australia Bank 2002
George Gittoes - last sitting before Peshawar, 2007
George Fetting
Portrait, type C photograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2008
George Lambert
'Self Portrait with Gladioli'
Portrait story
An examination of the life and times of George Lambert through the gesture and pose in his self portrait.
Sir George Coles KT CBE
Biography
Sir George Coles CBE (1885–1977) was the founder of the retail concern GJ Coles and Coy.
1 portrait in the collection
George Moore
Biography
George Moore (1923-2008), champion jockey, was born in Mackay, Qld and was apprenticed in Brisbane in 1938.
1 portrait in the collection
George Nicholas CBE
Biography
George Nicholas CBE (1884-1960), pharmacist and philanthropist, grew up in South Australia and Victoria.
1 portrait in the collection
George Dance
Biography
George Dance the Younger, architect, was a founder member of the Royal Academy in 1768.
4 portraits in the collection