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Rachel Griffiths

Rachel Griffiths AM

Rachel Griffiths (b. 1968) studied education at Victoria College before working with the community theatre group Woolly Jumpers, Inc.

1 portrait in the collection

Rachel Griffiths

Rachel Griffiths

Rachel Griffiths

Rachel Griffiths, 2002 (printed 2004)

Portrait, type C photograph on paper

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2005

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Simon Griffiths

Simon Griffiths has been acclaimed in numerous publications as Australia's leading food and garden photographer.

1 portrait in the collection

Olga and her blanket, 2015 by Katherine Griffiths

Olga and her blanket, 2015

by Katherine Griffiths

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Thomas Griffiths Wainewright

Thomas Griffiths Wainewright (1794-1847) is one of the most intriguing and talented figures in colonial Australian art.

4 portraits in the collection

Rachel

Rachel Perkins

Arrernte/Kalkadoon woman Rachel Perkins (b. 1970) is the daughter of First Nations activists Eileen and Charlie Perkins.

1 portrait in the collection

Rachel Roxburgh

Rachel Roxburgh

Rachel Roxburgh (1915–1991), artist, conservationist and architectural historian, grew up in Sydney's eastern suburbs and studied art at East Sydney Technical College and the Adelaide Perry Art School in the 1930s.

1 portrait in the collection

Taking the waters, 2018 by Rachel Peachey

Taking the waters, 2018

by Rachel Peachey

Max, 2020 Rachel Mounsey

Max

Before dark (Metamorphosis), 2020 Rachel Gregg

Before dark (Metamorphosis)

Kylie Kwong

Kylie Kwong

Kylie Kwong

Kylie Kwong, 2003

Simon Griffiths

Portrait, type C photograph on paper

Purchased 2005

Edward Paine Butler

Edward Paine Butler

Edward Paine Butler

Edward Paine Butler, c. 1845

Thomas Griffiths Wainewright

Portrait, watercolour, gouache and pencil on paper

Purchased 2009

Portrait of Henry Hopkins

Portrait of Henry Hopkins

Portrait of Henry Hopkins

Portrait of Henry Hopkins, c. 1845

Thomas Griffiths Wainewright

Portrait, watercolour on paper

Purchased with funds provided by L Gordon Darling AC CMG 2013

Edward Paine Butler

Poison pen

Magazine article by Michael Desmond, 2010

Michael Desmond examines the career of the eighteenth-century suspected poisoner and portrait artist Thomas Griffiths Wainewright.

The Cutmear sisters, Jane and Lucy, c. 1842

A man of superior attainments

Magazine article by Joanna Gilmour, 2013

Joanna Gilmour explores the life of a colonial portrait artist, writer and rogue Thomas Griffiths Wainewright.

Rachel Roxburgh

Rachel Roxburgh

Rachel Roxburgh

Rachel Roxburgh, 1939

Portrait, oil on canvas

Purchased 2018

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