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Herbert Cole 'Nugget' Coombs

H.C. Coombs

Herbert Cole ('Nugget') Coombs (1906–1997) was the governor of the Commonwealth (later Reserve) Bank of Australia from 1949 to 1968.

3 portraits in the collection

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Head of H.C. Coombs, c. 1972 (cast 2018)

Portrait, bronze

Purchased 2018

Herbert Cole 'Nugget' Coombs

Herbert Cole 'Nugget' Coombs

Herbert Cole 'Nugget' Coombs

Herbert Cole 'Nugget' Coombs, n.d.

Portrait, fibre-tipped pen on paper

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Mrs Lily Kahan 2017
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program

Herbert Cole 'Nugget' Coombs

Herbert Cole 'Nugget' Coombs

Herbert Cole 'Nugget' Coombs

Herbert Cole 'Nugget' Coombs, early 1970s

Portrait, pen and ink on paper

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Mrs Lily Kahan 2017
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program

Xavier Herbert (study)

Xavier Herbert

Xavier Herbert (1901 –1984), author, was born Alfred Jackson to a single mother in Geraldton, WA.

2 portraits in the collection

Self portrait with glove

Herbert Badham

Herbert Badham was an artist, writer and teacher who specialised in figures, urban life and beach scenes.

1 portrait in the collection

Self portrait with glove

Self portrait with glove

Self portrait with glove

Self portrait with glove, 1939

Portrait, oil on canvas board

Purchased 1999

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Thomas Herbert Maguire

Thomas Herbert Maguire was a painter and lithographer working in London in the middle of the nineteenth century.

4 portraits in the collection

Dr HV Evatt, Albert Namatjira and Dame Mary Gilmore having a meal

Herbert Vere Evatt

Herbert Vere Evatt (1894–1965) was a Labor politician, judge, historian and statesman.

2 portraits in the collection

Xavier Herbert (study)

Xavier Herbert (study)

Xavier Herbert (study)

Xavier Herbert (study), c. 1977

Portrait, oil on canvas on board

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2012

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Xavier Herbert, early 1980s (printed 2018)

Jacqueline Mitelman

Portrait, inkjet print on paper

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2018

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Herbert Benjamin George Larkin CBE

Herbert Benjamin George Larkin CBE (c. 1871- 1944), shipping administrator, came to Australia from England and joined the office of the Australian Steam Navigation Company.

1 portrait in the collection

Bert Hinkler

Herbert John Louis Hinkler

Herbert John Louis (Bert) Hinkler (1892-1933), aviator, worked with a photographer and in sugar mills before joining the Queensland Aero club and taking a correspondence course in mechanics.

1 portrait in the collection

HV (Doc) Evatt

HV (Doc) Evatt

HV (Doc) Evatt

HV (Doc) Evatt, 1935

Portrait, oil on canvas

Gift of Elizabeth Evatt and Penelope Seidler 1998. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

Edward Lloyd Jones

Edward Lloyd Jones

Edward Lloyd Jones

Edward Lloyd Jones, c. 1885

Herbert Beecroft

Portrait, oil on canvas

Gift of Susanna de Vienne, Sarah Wood and David Lloyd Jones 2009. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

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H.B.G Larkin, 1928

Portrait, pen and ink on paper

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2012

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