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The National Portrait Gallery acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of Country throughout Australia and recognises the continuing connection to lands, waters and communities. We pay our respect to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures and to Elders both past and present.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are warned that this website contains images of deceased persons.

La Milo holding a wreath
La Milo holding a wreath
La Milo holding a wreath

La Milo holding a wreath, c. 1907

Bassano Ltd
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on cabinet card

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2016

La Milo (Miss Pansy Montague)
La Milo (Miss Pansy Montague)
La Milo (Miss Pansy Montague)

La Milo (Miss Pansy Montague), c. 1905

an unknown artist
Portrait, photographic postcard

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2016

The Water Nymph, Miss Pansy Montague
The Water Nymph, Miss Pansy Montague
The Water Nymph, Miss Pansy Montague

The Water Nymph, Miss Pansy Montague, c. 1905

an unknown artist
Portrait, photographic postcard

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2016

The Water Nymph, Miss Pansy Montague
The Water Nymph, Miss Pansy Montague
The Water Nymph, Miss Pansy Montague

The Water Nymph, Miss Pansy Montague, c. 1905

an unknown artist
Portrait, photographic postcard

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2016

The Water Nymph, Miss Pansy Montague
The Water Nymph, Miss Pansy Montague
The Water Nymph, Miss Pansy Montague

The Water Nymph, Miss Pansy Montague, c. 1905

an unknown artist
Portrait, photographic postcard

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2016

The Water Nymph, Miss Pansy Montague
The Water Nymph, Miss Pansy Montague
The Water Nymph, Miss Pansy Montague

The Water Nymph, Miss Pansy Montague, c. 1905

an unknown artist
Portrait, photographic postcard

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2016

The Water Nymph, Miss Pansy Montague
The Water Nymph, Miss Pansy Montague
The Water Nymph, Miss Pansy Montague

The Water Nymph, Miss Pansy Montague, c. 1905

an unknown artist
Portrait, photographic postcard

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2016

The Water Nymph, Miss Pansy Montague
The Water Nymph, Miss Pansy Montague
The Water Nymph, Miss Pansy Montague

The Water Nymph, Miss Pansy Montague, c. 1905

an unknown artist
Portrait, photographic postcard

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2016

La Milo in Lady Godiva procession, Coventry, 1907
La Milo in Lady Godiva procession, Coventry, 1907
La Milo in Lady Godiva procession, Coventry, 1907

La Milo in Lady Godiva procession, Coventry, 1907, c. 1907

an unknown artist
Portrait, photographic postcard

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2016

La Milo as Lady Godiva at Coventry
La Milo as Lady Godiva at Coventry
La Milo as Lady Godiva at Coventry

La Milo as Lady Godiva at Coventry, c. 1907

Rotary Photo Company Ltd
Portrait, photographic postcard

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2016

The Water Nymph, Miss Pansy Montague

Of Pansy, plastiques and prudes

Lust

Near-naked subversion

John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich
John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich
John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich

John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, c. 1774

Valentine Green after Johann Zoffany
Portrait, mezzotint on paper

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2015

Helen Borthwick née Pearson

The personal and the historical

About Face article

Where do we draw a line between the personal and the historical? Although she died in Melbourne in 1975, when I was not quite eleven years old, I have the vividest memories of my maternal grandmother Helen Borthwick.

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