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Sir Rupert Hamer AC KCMG ED
Biography
Sir Rupert ‘Dick’ Hamer AC KCMG (1916-2004) was premier of Victoria from 1972 to 1981.
1 portrait in the collection
Study for portrait of Sir Rupert 'Dick" Hamer', 2009
Lewis Miller
Portrait, oil on linen
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Sir Andrew Grimwade CBE 2018
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program
Rupert Bunny
Biography
Rupert Charles Wulsten Bunny (1864–1947) was one of the most celebrated Australian expatriate artists of his generation, achieving a degree of success in Paris in the 1890s and early 1900s that was unmatched by his peers.
3 portraits in the collection
Self portrait with scarf, c. 1930s
Rupert Bunny
Portrait, oil on canvas
Gift of Philip Bacon AM 2012. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Rupert Murdoch AC KCSG
Biography
Rupert Murdoch AC (b. 1931) is widely regarded as the world's most influential media mogul.
2 portraits in the collection
Rupert C.W. Bunny, 1928
Arthur T. Woodward
Portrait, watercolour and gouache on strawboard
Gift of Ben Travers 2021. Donated through Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Rupert Murdoch, 2005
Ben Baker
Portrait, type C photograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2005
Rupert Murdoch, c. 1986
Joe Greenberg
Portrait, watercolour, crayon, coloured pencil, fibre-tipped pen and gouache on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2001
Dame Nellie Melba, c. 1901
Rupert Bunny
Portrait, pencil on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2009
Doodles of the Diva
Magazine article by Dr Sarah Engledow, 2010
Three tiny sketches of Dame Nellie Melba in the NPG collection were created by the artist who was to go on to paint the most imposing representation of the singer: Rupert Bunny.
Lewis Miller
Biography
Lewis Miller (b. 1959), artist, won the Archibald Prize in 1998 with one of his many portraits of fellow artist Allan Mitelman, and has been a finalist seventeen times.
4 portraits in the collection
Shadows cast on fairy tale scene
Lust
Bunny’s side-honey
The Cosmopolitans
In Gallery Two
Previous exhibition, 2023
Spanning the 1880s to the 1930s, this collection display celebrates the innovations in art – and life – introduced by the generation of Australians who travelled to London and Paris for experience and inspiration in the decades either side of 1900.
Richard Divall AO OBE
Biography
Frà Professor Richard Divall AO OBE (1945–2017), conductor, composer and scholar, grew up in Manly and was educated at Manly Boys’ High School.
1 portrait in the collection
Impressions
Painting light and life
Previous exhibition, 2011
Impressions: Painting light and life presents portraits by, and of, artists at the heart of Australian impressionism including Tom Roberts, Arthur Streeton and Frederick McCubbin.
Elaine Haxton
Biography
Elaine Haxton (1909-1999), painter, graphic artist and theatre designer, grew up in Sydney.
1 portrait in the collection