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Googie Withers AO
Biography
Georgette Lizette (Googie) Withers AO (1917–2011), stage, film and television actor, was born in India and studied drama at the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts in London.
1 portrait in the collection
Googie Withers, 1962
Don Bachardy
Portrait, pen and ink, brush and ink on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 1999
Walter Withers
Biography
Walter Withers (1854-1914), painter, interior designer and teacher, trained at the Royal Academy in London before coming to Australia at the end of 1882.
1 portrait in the collection
The Colonel (Portrait of Walter Withers), 1896
David Davies
Portrait, pastel on paper
Purchased 2009
Professor H. Rodney Withers, 2004
Jacqueline Mitelman
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2004
John no. 11, 2010
by Alex Cyreszko
Image
Percy Lindsay
Biography
Percy Lindsay (1870-1952), artist, was the eldest child of Robert and Jane Lindsay, born, as were his nine siblings, in Creswick, Victoria.
4 portraits in the collection
David Davies
Biography
David Davies began studying art at the School of Mines and Industries in his birthplace, Ballarat.
1 portrait in the collection
Jim Paterson
Biography
Jim Paterson, painter, printmaker and sculptor, was born in Melbourne and completed his diploma in Fine Arts at Prahran Technical College in 1969.
1 portrait in the collection
Michael Leunig, 2004
Jacqueline Mitelman
Portrait, type C photograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2005
Drawing inspiration
Magazine article by Dr Christopher Chapman, 2017
Christopher Chapman absorbs the gentle touch of Don Bachardy’s portraiture.
Desert Island Discs
About Face article
I agonized over the choice of four songs to take with me to the ABC Studios for Alex Sloan’s Canberra 666 afternoon program, a sort of iteration of the old BBC Desert Island Discs.
The more things change
Magazine article by Dr Sarah Engledow, 2011
National Photographic Portrait Prize curator, Sarah Engledow, finds reward in a difficult task and ultimately uncovers the essence of portraiture.
Stubbs and the horse
About Face article
One of the chief aims of George Stubbs, 1724–1806, the late Judy Egerton’s great 1984–85 exhibition at the Tate Gallery was to provide an eloquent rebuttal to Josiah Wedgwood’s famous remark of 1780: “Noboby suspects Mr Stubs [sic] of painting anything but horses & lions, or dogs & tigers.”