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Joseph Brown AO OBE
Biography
Joseph Brown AO OBE (1918–2009), art collector, art dealer and philanthropist, arrived in Australia with his father and siblings from Poland in 1933; his mother had passed away shortly before their departure.
2 portraits in the collection
Joseph Brown, 1980
Brian Dunlop
Portrait, watercolour and gouache on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Dr Joseph Brown AO OBE 2006
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program
Dr Joseph Brown with Two Typists, 1996
Noel McKenna
Portrait, enamel on canvas
Gift of the artist 2021. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
A quiet moment
Magazine article by Helene Ladomirska, 2006
As Bryan Westwood’s portrait of Brian Dunlop hangs adjacent to Brian Dunlop’s portrait of the philanthropist Dr Joseph Brown AO OBE, we see the artist of one work as the subject of the other.
Woburn Sheepshearing, 1811
Thomas Morris, M N. Bates, Joseph C. Stadler after George Garrard
Portrait, aquatint with stipple and etching and engraving, hand coloured on chine colle on paper laid down on cotton stretched over wooden strainer
Purchased 2018
Bob Brown
Biography
Bob Brown (b. 1944), environmentalist, doctor and former politician, is an environmental campaigner and former Parliamentary Leader of the Australian Greens.
2 portraits in the collection
Mike Brown
Biography
Mike Brown (1938-1997) artist, was a participant (with Ross Crothall and Colin Lanceley) in the 1962 Annandale Imitation Realists exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art and Design, Melbourne.
1 portrait in the collection
Robert Brown
Biography
Robert Brown (1773–1858) is considered ‘the father of Australian botany’.
2 portraits in the collection
George Brown
Biography
George Brown (1835-1917), clergyman, established numerous Methodist missions in the Pacific from the late 1880s.
1 portrait in the collection
Bryan Brown AM
Biography
Bryan Brown AM (b. 1947), actor and producer, worked as an insurance salesman before doing theatre in Australia and London.
2 portraits in the collection
A moment, 2016
by Millie Brown
Image
Stockyards, 2011
by Adrian Brown
Image
Jaye
Elliot Brown
Image
Bob Brown at his home in Liffey, 1988 (printed 2013)
Helga Leunig
Portrait, inkjet print on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Helga Leunig 2013
Gordon Furlee Brown
Biography
Gordon Furlee Brown, whose career is not documented in standard texts on Australian photography or art, exhibited in the Victorian Salon of Photography in 1931.
3 portraits in the collection
Dr Brown and Green Old Time Waltz, 1983
Harold Thornton
Portrait, oil on canvas
Gift of the Estate of Harold Thornton 2009