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Jackie French
'What I was writing was fairly revolutionary'
Portrait story
Jackie French on starting writing at six years old, gardening and truth.
Jackie French
In their own words
In their own words
Recorded 2022
Jackie French, 1999
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Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2005
Leonard French
Biography
Leonard French OBE (1928-2017) left school at fourteen to become an apprentice signwriter in his native Melbourne.
3 portraits in the collection
George French Angas
Biography
George French Angas (1822-1886) was an artist and shell collector, who published many illustrations of the plants, native animals and peoples of the southern hemisphere.
2 portraits in the collection
Self portrait, 1846
George French Angas
Portrait, lithograph on paper
Purchased 1999
Leonard French, 1980s (printed 2018)
Jacqueline Mitelman
Portrait, inkjet print on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2018
Leonard French, Heathcote, Victoria, 1969 (printed 2000)
David Moore
Portrait, type C photograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
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
South Australian Illustrated (Plate 35), 1847
George French Angas, Thomas McLean
Portrait, lithograph on paper
Rudy Komon and Leonard French, Beaumaris, Melbourne, 1967 (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.
Jackie, 2018
by Katrin Koenning
Image
Napoleon I – Emperor of the French, 2010
by Alexia Sinclair
Image
Jackie
Carol Jerrems
Image
Jackie and Kerryn
Jenny Sages
Image
Jean Francois de Galaup de la Perouse, Commodore in the French Navy, 1798
James Heath, G G & J Robinson
Portrait, engraving on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Ted and Gina Gregg 2012
Powerful, equal, legal love
Devotion
Three weddings