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The house, the horse, the wife and the offspring

Joanna Gilmour writes about the portraiture of the colonial artist William Nicholas.

Hugo at home (Hugo Weaving), 2011

Purchased with funds provided by the Liangis family 2012

Study for John Bell as King Lear, 1998-2001

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

Rocking the boat, 2006

Undercurrent

Dr Sarah Engledow writes about the portraiture of Australian artist Nicholas Harding.

Robert Drewe (in the swell), 2006

Purchased 2010

Through thick and thin

Sarah Engledow likes the manifold mediums of Nicholas Harding’s portraiture.

Waiting for Godot

'Artist and actors, advancing spasmodically, find their rhythm together' writes Sarah Engledow.

Robert Drewe

Artist Nicholas Harding talks about what was captured in his portrait of Robert Drewe.

Nicholas Harding

Artist Nicholas Harding talks about how he became interested in portraiture, and his motivation in painting Hugo Weaving.

Lear unbuttoned

Sarah Engledow steps up to the footlights and applauds the storyline behind Nicholas Harding's portraits of actor John Bell.

Nicolas Baudin, Capitaine de Vaisseau. Commandant I'Expedition pour le tour du Monde et Specialement relatif aux Sciences et auz Arts, entreprise en I'An gme, 1800, 1800

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2015

Vue de George’s Street à Sydney, 1833

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2018

Theresa and James Laidley Mort, 1844

Gift of the Mort family 2009

Nicholas Hannen and Athene Seyler, London, c. 1952 (printed 2000)

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.

Paris to Monaro

After successfully exploring the art scenes of London, France and Morocco, Hilda Rix Nicholas settled at Knockalong, a property near Delegate, on the Monaro plain in the 1920s.