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Franco and Amina Belgiorno-Nettis

Franco and Amina Belgiorno-Nettis

Franco and Amina Belgiorno-Nettis

Franco and Amina Belgiorno-Nettis, 1991 (printed 2011)

Portrait, inkjet print on paper

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2011

Franco and Amina Belgiorno-Nettis

Amina Belgiorno-Nettis

Amina Belgiorno-Nettis (née Cerino-Zegna) (d. 2015), the daughter of a prosperous northern Italian family, met Franco Belgiorno-Nettis AC CBE (1915-2006) at a dance.

1 portrait in the collection

Franco and Amina Belgiorno-Nettis

Franco Belgiorno-Nettis AC CBE

Franco Belgiorno-Nettis AC CBE (1915-2006), industrialist, engineer and patron of the arts, attended the Turin Military Academy and served in the Italian army in North Africa during World War II.

1 portrait in the collection

Greg Lindsay

Greg Lindsay

Greg Lindsay

Greg Lindsay, 2002

Salvatore Zofrea OAM

Portrait, oil on canvas

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Marco Belgiorno-Zegna AM 2002

Angela Belgiorno-Zegna, 2001 by Salvatore Zofrea

Intimate Portraits

Previous exhibition, 2002

Intimate Portraits is an exhibition of paintings, drawings and prints that explore the less public side of portraiture

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Ross Watson

Ross Watson specialises in interpolating representations of lithe semi-naked men into copies of paintings by masters such as Vermeer, Ter Borsch, David and Bronzino.

2 portraits in the collection

Untitled #21/09 (after Ricci, 1700; featuring Matthew Mitcham)

Untitled #21/09 (after Ricci, 1700; featuring Matthew Mitcham)

Untitled #21/09 (after Ricci, 1700; featuring Matthew Mitcham)

Untitled #21/09 (after Ricci, 1700; featuring Matthew Mitcham), 2009

Portrait, oil on board

Gift of the artist 2010. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

Jean-Paul Sartre, 1946

Insightful

Magazine article by Robert McFarlane, 2004

Henri-Cartier-Bresson invented the grammar for photographing life in the 20th century.

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Portrait Donors

Still from the series Hereinbefore, 2012

Hereinbefore

Magazine article by Alistair McGhie, 2013

Alistair McGhie talks with Laura Moore about her winning digital self portrait.

Trans-, 2004-05 by Tejal Shah

Tejal Shah

by Gitanjali Dang

Born in 1979, Tejal Shah grew up in Chhattisgarh, central India, moving to Bombay in 1995.

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