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Study for Portrait of W S Robinson, 1952
Sir William Dobell OBE
Portrait, oil on board
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by L Gordon Darling AC CMG 2003
William Robinson AO
Biography
William Robinson AO (b. 1936) is one of Australia's most distinguished and influential contemporary painters, known for his distinctive and prolific output as landscape painter in particular.
3 portraits in the collection
Self portrait with goose feathers, 2004
William Robinson AO
Portrait, colour lithograph on paper
Purchased 2022
Equestrian self portrait, 2004
William Robinson AO
Portrait, colour lithograph on paper
Purchased 2022
William Robinson
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Unique in the world, perhaps, is a bronze sculpture that fuses the age-old human portrait bronze tradition, and the later genre of the bronze pug figurine: that’d be William Robinson’s Self-portrait with pug.
William Robinson, 1994
Greg Weight
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Gift of Patrick Corrigan AM 2004. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Opening of the First Legislative Council of Victoria by Governor Charles Joseph LaTrobe at St Patrick's Hall, Bourke Street West, Melbourne November 13th 1851, 1883
John Noone after William Strutt
Portrait, photolithograph on paper
Purchased 2013
Sally Robinson
Biography
Sally Robinson, born in England, studied at the National Art School in Sydney from 1970 to 1973, and in the following year took up a position as designer at the Australian Museum in Sydney.
3 portraits in the collection
Midday in the squat, 2009
by Hannah Robinson
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Kevin at Midnight
James J. Robinson
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Observation point
Magazine article by Sally Robinson, 2017
Every face is different and every face is fascinating, but I find an elderly one particularly intriguing.
Sally Robinson
'Expect a polite refusal'
Portrait story
Artist Sally Robinson describes her career and the creation of her portrait of Tim Winton.
Dorothy Robinson Napangardi
Biography
Dorothy Robinson Napangardi (c. 1956–2013) was an influential Pintupi/Warlpiri artist who developed a distinctive abstract monochromatic style across the course of her career.
1 portrait in the collection
Tim Winton, 2019
Sally Robinson
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Tim Winton, 2019
Sally Robinson
Portrait, synthetic polymer paint on canvas
Purchased with funds provided by the Annual Appeal 2020
Judy, 2012
by Sally Robinson
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