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Sylvia Davis-Patricelli and Anthony Patricelli, c. 1944
Max Dupain OBE
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on laid down on cardboard mount
Gift of Danina Dupain Anderson 2018. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Sylvia Breamer
Biography
Sylvia Bremer (also Breamer) (1897–1943), actor, was born in Double Bay, Sydney, in June 1897 into a British-Australian naval family.
2 portraits in the collection
Sylvia Breamer, c. 1920
Witzel Studios
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2017
Sylvia Breamer, c. 1917-1919
an unknown artist
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2017
Ms Sylvia Dropulich, 1996
Robin Wallace-Crabbe, Dianne Fogwell
Portrait, etching
Gift of the artist 2000. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Bella in the window of her home school
Agi Davis
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Glyn Davis AC
Biography
Professor Glyn Davis AC is Secretary to the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet.
1 portrait in the collection
John Davis
Biography
Alan Davies' and Peter Stanbury's The Mechanical Eye in Australia lists Sydney photographer John Davis (life dates unknown) as having a carte-de visite studio on King Street, and as working from addresses on Pitt and George Streets between 1870 and 1873..
1 portrait in the collection
Judy Davis
Biography
Judy Davis (b. 1955), actor, director and two-time Oscar nominee, has won many acting accolades, including eight AACTA awards, three Emmy awards, two BAFTAs and two Golden Globes.
3 portraits in the collection
Cloning experiment #3 The many mes, 2010
by Yanni Scott-Davis
Image
Judy Davis with director John Duigan in 'Winter of our Dreams', 1981 (printed 2017)
Robert McFarlane
Portrait, inkjet print on paper
Purchased 2017
Judy Davis, 1981
William Yang
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Purchased 1998
Judy Davis on the set of 'Heatwave', Sydney, 1981 (printed 2000)
David Moore
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
The series 'David Moore: From Face to Face' was acquired as a gift of the artist and with financial assistance from Timothy Fairfax AC and L Gordon Darling AC CMG 2001
William Francis King, 'The Flying Pieman', c. 1869
John Davis
Portrait, albumen paper carte de visite
Gift of the family of FW Macpherson 2010
Portrait of Professors Margaret Gardner and Glyn Davis, 2017
Jacqueline Mitelman
Portrait, type C photograph on paper
Commissioned with funds provided by Jim and Barbara Higgins, Sir Roderick Carnegie AC, Rupert Myer AO and Annabel Myer, Louise and Martyn Myer Foundation, Peter and Ruth McMullin, Diana Carlton, Professor Derek Denton AC, Harold Mitchell AC, Peter Jopling AM KC, Andrew and Liz Mackenzie, Patricia Patten, Tamie Fraser AO, Bruce Parncutt and Robin Campbell, Lauraine Diggins, Steven Skala AO and Lousje Skala 2017
DJ Lady Erica, 2019
Sean Burton
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