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Lady Primrose Potter AC
Biography
Lady Primrose Potter AC was born in Sydney in 1931 and lives in Melbourne.
1 portrait in the collection
Lady Primrose Potter, 2023
Betina Fauvel-Ogden
Portrait, oil on canvas
Commissioned with funds provided by Nigel Satterley AM and Denise Satterley and The Calvert-Jones Foundation 2023
Sir Ian Potter
Biography
Sir Ian Potter (1902-1994) was the founder and benefactor of The Ian Potter Foundation.
2 portraits in the collection
Sir Ian Potter, 1973
Bryan Westwood
Portrait, oil on composition board
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Lady Primrose Potter 2006
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program
Sir Ian Potter, 1968
Mark Strizic
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Purchased with funds provided by Sir Roderick Carnegie 2003
Support Crew
Magazine article by Dr Christopher Chapman, 2011
Portraits of philanthropists in the collection honour their contributions to Australia and acknowledge their support of the National Portrait Gallery.
Beatrix Potter
Delmar Banner
Image
Wedgwood and Bentley
Biography
Josiah Wedgwood (1730-1795), potter and industrialist, became an apprentice to his potter brother, Thomas, at an early age.
1 portrait in the collection
Icons Syndicate
Listed alphabetically
Honour board
Jasperware medallion of Captain James Cook, 1779
Wedgwood and Bentley
Portrait, white on blue Jasper Ware in oval shaped wood and gilt frame
Purchased with funds provided by Robert Oatley AO 2007
Dr Julie Dowling
Biography
Julie Dowling, an artist of Badimaya, Irish and Scottish Catholic heritage, was born in Subiaco, Western Australia and grew up in nearby urban and semi-rural areas.
2 portraits in the collection
Bill Brandt
A Retrospective
Previous exhibition, 2002
From Brandt's early work that documents fixed social contrasts of pre-World War II life in Britain to his later experimentation with a surreal style, this exhibition spans 50 years of Brandt's far reaching career in an extensive assemblage of 155 vintage gelatin silver prints from the Bill Brandt Archive in London.
Dr Ray Marginson AM
Biography
Dr Ray Marginson AM (1923-2019) was Vice-Principal of the University of Melbourne from 1966 to 1988.
1 portrait in the collection
Richard Tognetti #1510, 2018
Louise Hearman
Portrait, oil and ink on canvas
Commissioned with funds provided by Peter Weiss AO 2018
Richard Tognetti AO
Biography
Richard Tognetti AO (b. 1965), violinist, conductor and composer, trained with William Primrose in Wollongong and Alice Waten in Sydney before undertaking further studies with Igor Ozim in Switzerland.
2 portraits in the collection
Lawrence Cox AO
Biography
Laurence Cox AO (b. 1938), a director of the Australian Stock Exchange from its inception in 1987 and its chairman from 1989 to 1994, was an executive director of Macquarie Group Limited from 1996 to 2009; chairman of the Transurban Group from 1996 to 2007 and chairman of the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute from 1994 to 2009.
1 portrait in the collection