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Rachel Ward and Bryan Brown, 2006 (printed 2020)
Peter Brew-Bevan
Portrait, inkjet print on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2020
Rachel Griffiths AM
Biography
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 Perkins
Biography
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
Biography
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
Image
Before dark (Metamorphosis)
Rachel Gregg
Image
Max
Rachel Mounsey
Image
Rachel Roxburgh, 1939
Adelaide Perry
Portrait, oil on canvas
Purchased 2018
Rachel Griffiths, 2002 (printed 2004)
Karin Catt
Portrait, type C photograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2005
Sir Leslie Ward
Biography
Sir Leslie Ward (1851-1922), signing his work 'Spy', was the most famous of the stable of caricaturists, including Sir Max Beerbohm and Carlo Pellegrini, who worked for the weekly English magazine Vanity Fair from 1869 to 1914.
31 portraits in the collection
Hugh Kingsley Ward
Biography
Hugh Kingsley Ward MC (1887-1972), bacteriologist, was educated at Sydney Grammar and the University of Sydney before being awarded the Rhodes Scholarship in 1911 and proceeding to Oxford.
1 portrait in the collection
Dr Hugh Kingsley Ward, n.d.
Max Dupain OBE
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Gift of Danina Dupain Anderson 2017. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Vanity fair
Magazine article by Ashleigh Wadman, 2012
Ashleigh Wadman rediscovers the Australian characters represented with a kindly touch by the British portrait artist Leslie Ward for the society magazine Vanity Fair.
Rachel, 2021
Thea Anamara Perkins
Portrait, synthetic polymer paint on gessoboard
Purchased 2022
The Saints, 1978 (printed 2018)
Gary Ede
Portrait, inkjet print on paper
Purchased with funds provided by Wayne Williams 2018
Phil (Phil May), 1895
Sir Leslie Ward, Vincent Brooks, Day & Son, Vanity Fair Magazine
Portrait, chromolithograph on paper
Gift of Mr Ronald Walker 2001