Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of John Sandefur 2019
John Firth-Smith (b. 1943) is a Sydney abstract painter. In the early 1960s he won a number of 'young artist' prizes for his paintings of yachts on Sydney Harbour, but by 1968 his work was becoming increasingly abstract, featuring large fields of opaque colour.
2 portraits in the collection
John Raphael Smith worked in various drapery establishments and painted miniatures before turning to engraving in London.
1 portrait in the collection
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2005
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2011
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2003
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program
Gift of Patrick Corrigan AM 2004. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Purchased 2010
Purchased 2024
![John Mitchel with John Martin and Father John Kenyon [the three Johns]](/files/e/4/6/6/i14565-sl.jpg "John Mitchel with John Martin and Father John Kenyon [the three Johns]")
![John Mitchel with John Martin and Father John Kenyon [the three Johns]](/files/e/4/6/6/i14565-ths.jpg "John Mitchel with John Martin and Father John Kenyon [the three Johns]")
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2016
Purchased 2009
Purchased 2013
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2011
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Ted and Gina Gregg 2012
Purchased 2018
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2017
