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Professor Allan Snyder, 2000
David Moore
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2001
John Allan
Biography
John Allan (1866-1936) was a Deakin shire-councillor for many years and president in 1914-15.
1 portrait in the collection
Allan Lowe
Biography
Allan Lowe (1907-2007) is considered to be one of the major ceramic artists of his time particularly in the field of arthenware (lower-fired and more colourful work than stoneware).
1 portrait in the collection
Weight of the Mind's Periapt
Jane Allan
Image
Allan Lowe, c. 1955
Reshid Bey
Portrait, oil on canvas
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Alan Lowe and Marian Lowe 2000
John Allan, 1923
Tom Glover
Portrait, pen and ink on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2012
Allan McCulloch, 1980
Andrew Sibley
Portrait, pencil on paper
Gift of the artist 2002. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
George Urquhart (Scotty) Allan, 1954
Max Dupain OBE
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Gift of Danina Dupain Anderson 2018. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Art Handlers' Award
Renée & Maria
General content
The Art Handlers' Award for 2022 went to Weight of the Mind's Periapt, 2021 by Jane Allan.
Barry Jones, 2020
Louise Hearman
Portrait, oil on masonite
Purchased with funds provided by Marilyn Darling AC, Allan Myers AC KC and Maria Myers AC 2022
Reshid Bey
Biography
Reshid Bey was a Victorian painter and teacher. Born in Berlin when his father was Turkish ambassador there, he came to Australia, his mother’s homeland, when he was a young man.
3 portraits in the collection
Peter Brock AM
Biography
Peter Brock (1945-2006), a professional racing driver from 1972 to 1997, was undoubtedly Australia's best known and most popular motor sports personality.
1 portrait in the collection
Les Murray AO
Biography
Leslie Allan ‘Les’ Murray AO (1938-2019) was acknowledged during his lifetime as one of the great poets writing in English.
4 portraits in the collection
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
Amy Castles
Biography
Amy Castles (1880–1951), soprano, was born in Melbourne and educated at schools in Bendigo, where her family lived from the early 1880s.
4 portraits in the collection
Les Murray, 2003
Norman McBeath
Portrait, bromide fibre print
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Norman McBeath 2011