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Gilbert Lau AM
Biography
Melbourne Cantonese restaurateur Gilbert Lau (b. 1943) is renowned as the consummate host of the Flower Drum - for remembering your last visit, who you were with and what you ate.
1 portrait in the collection
Kevin Gilbert
Biography
Kevin Gilbert (1933-1993), Indigenous activist, writer and artist, wrote the first play by an Aboriginal person to be publicly performed in Australia.
2 portraits in the collection
Gilbert Stuart
Biography
Gilbert Stuart was an American painter who arrived in London by way of Scotland in 1775.
1 portrait in the collection
Gilbert Eric Douglas
Biography
Gilbert Eric Douglas (1902–1970), pilot and air force officer, took part in Sir Douglas Mawson’s British, Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (BANZARE), which took the form of two ocean voyages conducted over the southern summers of 1929–30 and 1930–31.
1 portrait in the collection
Gilbert Lau, c. 1998 (printed 2005)
Kate Gollings
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2005
Kevin Gilbert, 1972
Evelyn Kirwan
Portrait, oil on canvas
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2013
Kevin Gilbert and Joe in discussion outside Anti-Bicentennial and Treaty Meeting Balmain Town Hall, Sydney, 1987
Juno Gemes
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Gift of the artist 2010
Eric Douglas, c. 1930
Frank Hurley OBE
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Gift of Sally Douglas 2009
Lord Viscount Sydney, c. 1790
John Young after Gilbert Stuart
Portrait, mezzotint on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2012
Professor Gilbert Murray, OM, Oxford, c. 1957 (printed 2000)
David Moore
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2001. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
The series 'David Moore: From Face to Face' was acquired as a gift of the artist and with financial assistance from Timothy Fairfax AC and L Gordon Darling AC CMG 2001.
An affray which deserves particular mention
Ben Hall and his gang outdone, 6 February 1865
About Face article
Bushranger Ben Hall and his cronies held around 40 people hostage in a pub north-west of Goulburn, telling their captives ‘don’t be alarmed; we only came here for a bit of fun’.
James Cassius Williamson
Biography
James Cassius Williamson (1845-1913), actor and theatrical entrepreneur, worked and performed in theatres in his native USA before coming to Victoria under contract to George Selth Coppin in 1874.
1 portrait in the collection
Gladys Moncrieff album,
an unknown artist
Portrait, 38 page scrap book (19 doublesided pages unbound) featuring photographs and ephemera
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2008
John Kaldor AO
Biography
John Kaldor, textile designer and manufacturer, was born in Hungary. He came to Australia with his family in 1948.
1 portrait in the collection
Frederick Lowry
Biography
Fred Lowry (1836-1863) was a stockman before he turned to cattle and horse duffing.
1 portrait in the collection
James Heath
Biography
James Heath commenced an apprenticeship with an engraver named Joseph Collyer at the age of fourteen.
2 portraits in the collection