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Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Ted and Gina Gregg 2012
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Purchased 2008
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Purchased with funds provided by Ross A Field 2008
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Purchased 2008
Purchased 2014
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Purchased 2010
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Purchased 2010
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Purchased 2011
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Purchased 2010
Purchased 2014
Purchased 2002
Purchased 2011
Purchased 2011
Gift of Fiona Turner (née Robertson) and John Robertson 2011. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
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Purchased 2010
Gift of the Windeyer family 2009. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2008
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Gift of the artist 2001. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
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.
Purchased with funds provided by L Gordon Darling AC CMG and Marilyn Darling AC 2013
Gift of the Wade and Hannah families 2013
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Purchased 2016
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Purchased 2017
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Purchased 2017
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Gift of Ted and Gina Gregg 2012
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Purchased 2012
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the Windeyer family 2012
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Purchased 2010
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Gift of Pamela Glasson 2009
Collected by Leila Haigh (nee Rouse)
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by L Gordon Darling AC CMG 2014
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2008
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2001. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
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.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2001. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
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.
Purchased 2019
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Dr Peter Halliday in memory of Norah Knox 2010
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Gift of J Sages Family Trust 2009
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Mr and Mrs John Burton 2007
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Gift of the artist 2001. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
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.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2001. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
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.
Gift of the Estate of Leslie Walford AM 2013
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2016
Purchased 2018
Purchased 2011
Gift of Fiona Turner (née Robertson) and John Robertson 2011. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2012
Gift of the Windeyer family 2009. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Gift of Leo Schofield AM 2002. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Gift of the artist 2001. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
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.
Purchased with funds provided by L Gordon Darling AC CMG and Marilyn Darling AC 2013
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Purchased 2016
Purchased 2017
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Purchased 2011
Gift of Ted and Gina Gregg 2012
Gift in memory of Richard Kelynack Evans 2010. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Gift of Lydia Raymond Day 2010. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2001. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
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.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Malcolm Robertson in memory of William Thomas Robertson 2018
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program
Gift of Patrick Corrigan AM 2010. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Gift of Pamela Glasson 2009
Collected by Leila Haigh (nee Rouse)
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of J Sages Family Trust 2009
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program
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Purchased 2008
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Purchased 2007
Gift of Barbara Blackman 2004
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Gift of the artist 2001. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
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.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2001. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
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.
Gift of the Estate of Leslie Walford AM 2013
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2017
Gift of Karen Vickery 2022
Purchased 2011
Gift of Fiona Turner (née Robertson) and John Robertson 2011. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Purchased with funds provided by L Gordon Darling AC CMG 2009
Gift of Thea Bryant (Proctor) 2005
Gift of Leo Schofield AM 2002. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2001. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
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.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2013
Gift of T S Wills Cooke 2014. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
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Purchased 2016
Gift of an anonymous donor 2022
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Purchased 2017
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Gift of Mrs Jane Fisk 2012
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Gift of the Windeyer family 2012
Gift of the Windeyer family 2009. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Gift of the Windeyer family 2009
Gift of the artist 2001. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
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.
Purchased 2001
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Purchased 2014
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2020
Gift in memory of Frederick John Cato Kumm 2011. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Gift of Patrick Corrigan AM 2010. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2010
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of J Sages Family Trust 2009
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2007
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2001. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
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.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2001. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
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.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Harry Grunstein and Sarah Grunstein in memory of their father 2015
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Purchased 2018
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Tim Clark 2018
Purchased 2011
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Purchased with funds provided by L Gordon Darling AC CMG 2009
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Gift of the Defence Science and Technology Organisation, Commonwealth Department of Defence 2005
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2001. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
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.
Gift of the artist 2001. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
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.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Diane Williamson and Marion Foote 2013
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Purchased 2016
Purchased 2017
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Purchased 2017
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Purchased 2011
Gift of the Windeyer family 2009. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Gift of the Windeyer family 2009
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Gift of John Fairfax Holdings Ltd 2002
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2001. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
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.
Gift of T S Wills Cooke 2014. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2017
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2011
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Ted and Gina Gregg 2012
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the Freer Tuckfield family 2010
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program
Purchased 2017
Gift of Pamela Glasson 2009
Collected by Leila Haigh (nee Rouse)
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2009
Gift of the artist 2001. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
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.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2001. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
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.
Gift of Malcolm Robertson in memory of William Thomas Robertson 2018. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Purchased 2011
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2008
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2001. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
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.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2001. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
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.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Roslyn Lawson 2013
Purchased 2015
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2016
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2017
Gift of Fiona Turner (née Robertson) and John Robertson 2011. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the Windeyer family 2009
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2008
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2001. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
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.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Merv Shearman 2012
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2015
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2016
Purchased 2016
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Purchased 2017
Purchased 2019
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Gift of Peter E.B. Mansell 2018
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the Freer Tuckfield family 2010
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2017
Gift of Pamela Glasson 2009
Collected by Leila Haigh (nee Rouse)
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by L Gordon Darling AC CMG 2014
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2008
Gift of Suzanne Playfoot 2023
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2001. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
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.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2001. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
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.
Gift of Joanna Russell Maher (née Windeyer) 2018
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Dr Peter Halliday in memory of Norah Knox 2010
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2008
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2001. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
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.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2001. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
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.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2016
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Ric Techow and Jenny Techow-Coleman in memory of Roy and Bet Techow 2001
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2012
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2011
Purchased 2013
Gift of Malcolm Robertson in memory of William Thomas Robertson 2018. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2009
Collection: National Portrait Gallery Study Collection, Canberra
Gift of John Molony 2018
Gift of T S Wills Cooke 2014. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2012
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2012
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2013
Gift of Fiona Turner (née Robertson) and John Robertson 2011. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Gift of T S Wills Cooke 2014. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Gift of Pamela Glasson 2009
Collected by Leila Haigh (nee Rouse)
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Mrs Doris Passmore 2003
Purchased 2016
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Ted and Gina Gregg 2012
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2010
Purchased 2009
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the family of FW Macpherson 2012
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Malcolm Robertson in memory of William Thomas Robertson 2018
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program
Purchased 2012
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2007
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by L Gordon Darling AC CMG 2009
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2008
Purchased 2012
Purchased 2012
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2014
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Malcolm Robertson in memory of William Thomas Robertson 2018
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2010
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by L Gordon Darling AC CMG 2009
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Adrian McGlusky 2013
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by the Liangis family 2018
Gift of Pamela Glasson 2009
Collected by Leila Haigh (nee Rouse)
Purchased 2016
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by Ross A Field 2008
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2012
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2008
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2018
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2008
Purchased 2014
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2016
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2020
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2018
Purchased 2009
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Pamela Glasson 2012
Collected by Leila Haigh (nee Rouse)
Purchased 2011
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2013
Gift of Ted and Gina Gregg 2012
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Gina and Ted Gregg 2010
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2013
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2017
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2020
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by Peronelle Windeyer 2012
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Ted and Gina Gregg 2012
Purchased 2015
Purchased 2008
Gift of Sally Douglas 2024
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2008
Purchased 2015
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2016
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2009
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by Marilyn Darling AC 2008
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2014
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Ted and Gina Gregg 2012
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2011
Purchased 2010
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2008
Purchased with funds provided by the Liangis family 2014
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Dr Peter Halliday in memory of Norah Knox 2010
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2008
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2008
Gift of Fiona Turner (née Robertson) and John Robertson 2011. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2008
Gift of T S Wills Cooke 2014. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Purchased 2019
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2008
Gift of Valerie Taylor and Ron Taylor AM 2006
Gift of the Haigh family 2005
Purchased 2001
Gift of Malcolm Robertson in memory of William Thomas Robertson 2018. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Purchased 2011
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2008
Purchased 2003
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2008
Purchased 2022
Gift of the artist 2022. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Purchased 2009
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Patricia Tryon Macdonald 2005
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program
Purchased 2009
Australian entomologist and inventer of the Aerogard insect repellent, Douglas Frew Waterhouse describes the evolution of his career.
Dempsey’s People curator David Hansen chronicles a research tale replete with serendipity, adventure and Tasmanian tigers.
An interview with former National Portrait Gallery Director, Andrew Sayers, who describes the portrait of Sir Henry Barkly by Thomas Clark.
Max Dupain's unknown portrait subjects, phrenologist Madame Sibly, Indigenous-European relationships, Thomas Gainsborough and more.
G.W. Lawrie (life dates unknown) was a Scottish-born photographer who ran a number of studios in India from the 1880s..
2 portraits in the collection
Daniel Byrne (life dates unknown) was a painter who exhibited at the Royal Academy between 1840 and 1880.
1 portrait in the collection
An exploration of the role of artists such as John Webber who, whilst a member of Cook’s crew over many voyages, created paintings and drawings of the situations and people the explorers encountered.
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
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2018
Recorded 2016
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2016
Gill Hicks AM MBE (b. 1968) is a peace advocate, author, musician and artist.
1 portrait in the collection
George Case (life dates unknown) and his wife Grace Egerton (d. 1881), variety performers, made several successful tours of Australia in the 1860s and 1870s, although the precise dates of their visits are unknown.
1 portrait in the collection
Frank Hurley (1885-1962), photographer, first made his name on Douglas Mawson's Australasian Antarctic Expedition of 1911-14.
2 portraits in the collection
Piper (life dates unknown), also known as John Piper, was a Wiradjuri man who acted as a guide to Thomas Mitchell’s surveying expedition along the Murray and Darling Rivers into present-day Victoria in 1836.
2 portraits in the collection
Finalist, MDPA 2015
Gift of the Estate of the late Barbara Tribe 2009
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Rex Dupain 2003
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program
Recorded 2016
David Gist is an Acquisitions Officer at the Australian War Memorial, the most recent position in a career spanning a broad range of fields in the museums sector.
If music be the food of love
Purchased 2010
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Gina and Ted Gregg 2010
Paris based Australian photographer and filmmaker Nathalie Latham has an ongoing interest in the creative achievements of other Australian artists living in various locations around the globe.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Dr Robert Edwards AO 1999
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program
Tamara Tchinarova (1919–2017), dancer, was one of the original 'baby ballerinas' of the Ballet Russes de Monte Carlo.
2 portraits in the collection
Purchased 2009
Gift of an anonymous donor 2007
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2014
Charles Chauvel (1897-1959), actor and film-maker, worked on the sets of Snowy Baker films as a young man, and followed the great action hero to Hollywood in 1921.
1 portrait in the collection
Purchased 2015
London-based artist Ron Mueck creates an intense awareness of the different ways in which we experience vulnerability and a strong sense of tenderness is never far away.
Gift of Rex Dupain 2003. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
An examination of the life and times of George Lambert through the gesture and pose in his self portrait.
Walter Preston, engraver and convict, came to New South Wales aboard the Guildford in 1812.
1 portrait in the collection
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2005
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program
George Lambert (1873–1930), artist, was born in St Petersburg and lived in Germany and England before coming to Australia with his family at the age of fourteen.
7 portraits in the collection
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by the Ross family in memory of Noel and Enid Eliot 2014
The National Portrait Gallery is calling on family history enthusiasts and amateur historians to help reveal more about the people in Dempsey’s People: A folio of British street portraits from 1824-1844.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2015
I work with portraiture as a way to explore the nuances and complexities of contemporary selfhood and subjectivity.
The exhibition begins with Barry's childhood in Camberwell, Melbourne and chronicles his days as a struggling actor in Australia and England, his creation of characters including Barry McKenzie, Dame Edna Everage, Sandy Stone and Sir Les Patterson
Paul Gaimard (1796-1858), naturalist and naval surgeon, joined the French navy after distinguishing himself at the naval medical school at Toulon.
1 portrait in the collection
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2003
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2003
The exhibition Sages examines the process of portrait making through four large-scale portraits of women by Jenny Sages, paired with intimate preparatory drawings.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2017
Over the last five years the National Portrait Gallery has developed a collection of portrait photographs that reflects both the strength and diversity of Australian achievement as well as the talents of our photographers.
Louis-Claude Desaulses de Freycinet (1779–1842), hydrographer and cartographer, sailed with Nicolas Baudin on the Expédition aux terres australes, a journey of discovery, commissioned by Napoléon, to the unknown southern coast of New Holland.
1 portrait in the collection
The World of Thea Proctor is the Portrait Gallery's second major biographical exhibition - that is, the second exhibition to focus exclusively on the life and work of a single individual
The National Portrait Gallery is calling on family history enthusiasts and amateur historians to tell it more about the people in its new show, Dempsey’s People: A folio of British street portraits from 1824-1844.
Pansy Montague, ‘La Milo’ (c. 1885-unknown) appeared as a chorus girl and actress in Melbourne from about 1898, and in 1901 understudied Nellie Stewart in Sydney.
10 portraits in the collection
This is the first major exhibition to examine photographic portraiture in Australia, from its beginnings in the early 1840s to the present day
'I have just been to my dressing case to take a peep at you.
Arthur Murch, artist, is best-known as a painter in a colourful cubistic style, but he was occupied with sculpture throughout his career.
8 portraits in the collection
Margel Hinder AM (née Harris) (1906-1995), sculptor, trained in Buffalo and Boston in the 1920s.
1 portrait in the collection
This unique exhibition will give an insight into the private lives, pursuits and work of all the Nobel laureates associated with Australia
For Tom Roberts - Australia's best nineteenth-century portrait painter - neither a proto-national portrait gallery nor more popular collections of portrait heads, were sufficient public celebrations for the notables of Australian history
Masters of fare: chefs, winemakers, providores celebrates men and women who have championed the unique culinary characteristics and produce of Australia, enriching our lives with new ideas and new flavours over the past forty years.
Eric McIllree (1914-1973) was the founder, chairman and managing director of the Australian arm of Avis Rent-A-Car, and for twelve years the owner and developer of Dunk Island.
1 portrait in the collection
Purchased 2006
Nathalie Latham's exhibition Australia's Creative Diaspora explores Australians, in the arts, who live and work internationally.
Rick Amor, noblest yet most unaffected of contemporary Australian portraitists, is also a painter of enigmatic, ominous landscapes, seascapes and cityscapes that haunt the viewer like dreams, dimly-recalled.
The lovely faces in my photograph are that of my best friends. Some I have only known for a couple of months, others for most of my life. For me, recreating a family portrait with individuals I love was supremely important. I was reconstructing a photo of people I cherish with people I adore.
Gift of Claudia Hyles, Dr Christiane Lawin-Bruessel, Gwenda Matthews, Gael Newton, Anne O'Hehir, Susan Smith and Dominic Thomas in memory of our friend, Robyn Beeche 2016
Death masks, post-mortem drawings and other spooky and disquieting portraits... Come and see how portraits of infamous Australians were used in the 19th century.
The acquisition of the ivory miniatures of Mortimer and Mrs Lewis.
Gift of the family of FW Macpherson 2010
George Billett (also Bellett, Bellette and Billet, 1812–1885) was a farmer and landowner, an early settler of Sorell in Tasmania, and the son of two ex-convicts.
1 portrait in the collection
Elegance in exile is an exhibition surveying the work of Richard Read senior, Thomas Bock, Thomas Griffiths Wainewright and Charles Rodius: four artists who, though exiled to Australia as convicts, created many of the most significant and elegant portraits of the colonial period.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by Graham Smith 2009
This sample of 56 photographs takes in some of the smallest photographs we own and some of the largest, some of the earliest and some of the most recent, as well as multiple photographic processes from daguerreotypes to digital media.
Seventeen of Australia’s thirty prime ministers to date are represented in the contrasting sizes, moods and mediums of these portraits.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2010
Press releases and images downloads for media.
Barbara Blackman reflects on her experiences as a life model.
Commissioned with funds provided by King & Wood Mallesons 2018
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2010
George Billett (also Bellett, Bellette and Billet, 1812–1885) was a farmer and landowner, an early settler of Sorell in Tasmania, and the son of two ex-convicts.
1 portrait in the collection
Nicholas Harding: 28 portraits features paintings of Robert Drewe, John Bell and Hugo Weaving alongside gorgeously coloured recent oil portraits, delicate gouaches and bold ink and charcoal drawings.
Palassis (Vlase, Vlazio or Vlasio) Zanalis (1902–1973) arrived in Western Australia as a twelve-year-old, accompanied by an uncle, from the Greek island of Kastellorizo in 1914.
1 portrait in the collection
Joanna Gilmour writes about the portraiture of the colonial artist William Nicholas.
Purchased 2014
Purchased 2008. The original frame for this work was donated to the National Portrait Gallery of Australia by the National Gallery of Victoria 2009.
Purchased 2008. The original frame for this work was donated to the National Portrait Gallery of Australia by the National Gallery of Victoria 2009.
At a meeting by teleconference of the National Portrait Gallery Foundation last week, I found myself reporting that our forthcoming exhibition So Fine is going to be “a humdinger,” whereupon Tim Fairfax chuckled and said that he hadn’t heard that expression for years.
Robert Brown (1773–1858) is considered ‘the father of Australian botany’.
2 portraits in the collection
This exhibition showcases portraits acquired through the generosity of the National Portrait Gallery’s Founding Patrons, L Gordon Darling AC CMG and Marilyn Darling AC.
First Ladies profiles women who have achieved noteworthy firsts over the past 100 years.
The Australian of the Year Awards have often provoked controversy about who is selected and whether their achievements are remarkable.
Purchased 2018
Richard Flanagan (b. 1961) was born in Longford in northern Tasmania, the second youngest of the six children of Archie Flanagan, a primary school principal, and his wife Helen.
1 portrait in the collection
The exhibition will include works of art from the NPG Canberra's permanent collection with some inward loans and aims to highlight the achievements of notable Australians.
Johanna McMahon revels in history and mystery in pursuit of a suite of unknown portrait subjects.
Phil Manning celebrates a century of Brisbane photographic portraiture.
Commissioned with funds provided by Jillian Broadbent AO and Dr Helen Nugent AO 2018.
Wylie (c. 1824–unknown) is thought to have been born near King George’s Sound in south-west Western Australia, which would make him a Noongar man.
1 portrait in the collection
Joanna Gilmour explores the stories behind the ninteenth-century carte de visites of bushrangers Frank Gardiner and Fred Lowry.
A magnanimous portrait of Helena Rubinstein has been acquired for the National Portrait Gallery’s collection.
Joanna Gilmour explores the life and times of one of Melbourne's early socialites, Jessie Eyre Williams.
In his speech launching the new National Portrait Gallery building on 3 December 2008, then Prime Minister Kevin Rudd set the Gallery in a national and historical context.
Emma Kindred looks at the career of Joan Ross, whose work subverts colonial imagery and its legacy with the clash of fluorescent yellow.
Matthew Jones on the upshot of a St Kilda Road outrage.
In focussing on the importance of gifts in the building of the collection, prominence must be given to the most spectacular of the National Portrait Gallery's acquisitions; the portrait of Captain James Cook RN by John Webber R.A.
In the earliest stages of the Great War, the Royal Pavilion in Brighton was turned into a military hospital, and arrangements made there to accommodate the different dietary and other requirements of Hindu, Sikh and Muslim patients.
Grace Carroll on the gendered world of the Wentworths.
‘Everybody’s lives are built by so many influences, and for me, it is writers, artists and activists who have influenced how I think about the world.’
Politics and personae in the portraiture of TextaQueen by Jane Raffan.
Alison Weir explores the National Portrait Gallery, London and the BP Portrait Award to find what makes a good painted portrait - past and present.
Christopher Chapman delights in the intimacy of Robert Mapplethorpe's photography
Tenille Hands explores a portrait prize gifted to the National Screen and Sound Archive.
Joanna Gilmour explores the enticing urban shadows cast by artists Martin Lewis and Edward Hopper.
Those of you who are active in social media circles may be aware that through the past week I have unleashed a blitz on Facebook and Instagram in connection with our new winter exhibition Dempsey’s People: A Folio of British Street Portraits, 1824−1844.
The exhibition Depth of Field displays a selection of portrait photographs that reflect the strength and diversity of Australian achievement.
English artist Benjamin Duterrau took up the cause of the Indigenous peoples of Tasmania with his detailed and sympathetic renderings.
Gallery directors Karen Quinlan and Tony Ellwood talk to Penelope Grist about the NPG and NGV collaborative exhibition, Who Are You: Australian Portraiture.
All that fall: Sacrifice, life and loss in the First World War exhibition co-curators Dr Anne Sanders and Dr Christopher Chapman reflect on the evolution of the Gallery’s Anzac Centenary exhibition.
Kwon Hyeeun introduces Korean portraits of Kang Sehwang, and five generations of the Kang family.
Curator Emma Kindred shares a glimpse of the creative process behind her selection of works for the National Portrait Gallery’s salon hang.
A National Portrait Gallery, London exhibition redefines portraiture, shifting the focus towards a new perspective on Pop Art.
Sir Sidney Kidman (1857-1935) is inscribed in Australian legend as the ‘Cattle King’.
A toast to the acquisition of an unconventional new portrait of former Prime Minister, Stanley Melbourne Bruce.
The story behind two colonial portraits; a lithograph of captain and convict John Knatchbull and newspaper illustration of Robert Lowe, Viscount Sherbrooke.
Charles Haddon Chambers the Australian-born playboy playwright settled permanently in London in 1880 but never lost his Australian stance when satirising the English.
At just 7.8 x 6.2 cm, the daguerreotype of Thomas Sutcliffe Mort and his wife Theresa is one of the smallest works in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery.
Dr Anne Sanders previews the works in the new focus exhibition Paul Kelly and The Portraits.
This edited version of a speech by Andrew Sayers examines some of the antecedents of the National Portrait Gallery and set out the ideas behind the modern Gallery and its collection.
Pamela Gerrish Nunn explores New Zealand’s premium award for portraiture.
Jude Rae contemplates the portrait commission.
A focus on Indigenous-European relationships underpins Facing New Worlds. By Kate Fullagar.
Krysia Kitch celebrates Oodgeroo Noonuccal.
Jerrold Nathan's portrait of Jessie Street shows the elegant side of a many-faceted lady.
Karl James reflects on soldier portraiture during the Great War.
Charting a path from cockatiel to finch, Annette Twyman explores her family portraits and stories.
Aimee Board ventures within and beyond to consider two remarkable new Gallery acquisitions.
Michael Wardell samples the fare in the University of Queensland National Self-portrait Prize.
Karina Dias Pires shares the stories behind her portraits of women artists in their creative spaces.
Anne O’Hehir on the seductive power of the film still to reflect and shape ourselves and our cultural landscape.
Joanna Gilmour explores the 1790 portrait of William Bligh by Robert Dodd.
Dr. Sarah Engledow discusses a collection of drawings and prints by the Victorian artist Rick Amor acquired in 2005.
Aimee Board traces Judy Cassab’s path to the Australian outback, arriving at the junction of inspiration and abstraction.
Sir William Dobell painted the portraits of Sir Charles Lloyd Jones and Sir Hudson Fysh, who did much to promote the image of Australia in this country and abroad.
Joanna Gilmour describes some of the stories of the individuals and incidents that define French exploration of Australia and the Pacific.
How the National Portrait Gallery and its unique collection came to be
Jane Raffan feasts on modernity’s entrée in the Belle Époque theatre of the demimonde.
The tragic tale of Tom Wills, the ‘inventor’ of Australian Rules Football.
Sarah Engledow likes the manifold mediums of Nicholas Harding’s portraiture.
Sarah Engledow ponders the divergent legacies of Messrs Kendall and Lawson.
Books seldom make me angry but this one did. At first, I was powerfully struck by the uncanny parallels that existed between the Mellons of Pittsburgh and the Thyssens of the Ruhr through the same period, essentially the last quarter of the nineteenth century.
Joanna Gilmour explores the life and times of convict-turned-artist William Buelow Gould.
The Rajah Quilt’s narrative promptings are as intriguing as the textile is intricate.
Curator, Penny Grist, reveals how this exhibition came to be
Sarah Engledow looks at three decades of Nicholas Harding's portraiture.
This is my last Trumbology before, in a little more than a week from now, I pass to my successor Karen Quinlan the precious baton of the Directorship of the National Portrait Gallery.