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Portrait 29

September - November 2008

This issue of Portrait Magazine includes William Bligh, Lionel Rose, Richard Larter, Layne Beachley, William Yang and more.

Gordon and Marilyn Darling

Honour board

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Study for commissioned portrait of HRH Crown Princess Mary of Denmark (full-length study)

Study for commissioned portrait of HRH Crown Princess Mary of Denmark (full-length study)

Study for commissioned portrait of HRH Crown Princess Mary of Denmark (full-length study)

Study for commissioned portrait of HRH Crown Princess Mary of Denmark (full-length study), 2005

Portrait, black pastel on brown paper

Commissioned with funds provided by Mary Isabel Murphy 2005

Melodrama...

Melodrama...

Melodrama...

Melodrama..., c. 1900

an unknown artist

Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2008

Jeremiah Ware

Jeremiah Ware

Jeremiah Ware

Jeremiah Ware, c. 1854

Portrait, oil on board

Purchased with funds provided by Mary Isabel Murphy and Rosalind Blair Murphy 2014

Sketch of Clifton Pugh painting John Perceval

Clifton Pugh AO

Clifton Pugh AO was one of Australia’s best-known artists of the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, and one of its leading advocates for the arts.

11 portraits in the collection

Mary Ware

Mary Ware

Mary Ware

Mary Ware, c. 1854

Portrait, oil on canvas on board

Purchased with funds provided by Mary Isabel Murphy and Rosalind Blair Murphy 2014

Tokyo, 2010 by Lisa Tomasetti

Tokyo, 2010

by Lisa Tomasetti

Norman Lindsay

Norman Lindsay

Norman Lindsay

Norman Lindsay, 1936

Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by Timothy Fairfax AC 2003

The 70 year old jetty jumper, 2011 by Alex Frayne

The 70 year old jetty jumper, 2011

William Ashton

Sir William Ashton OBE

Sir William (Will) Ashton OBE (1881-1963) was the son of James Ashton, who founded Adelaide's Norwood Art School in 1885 and its Academy of Arts in 1895.

1 portrait in the collection

Melodrama...

Percy Lindsay

Percy Lindsay (1870-1952), artist, was the eldest child of Robert and Jane Lindsay, born, as were his nine siblings, in Creswick, Victoria.

4 portraits in the collection

Akira Isogawa

Akira Isogawa

Akira Isogawa

Akira Isogawa, 2001

Peter Brew-Bevan

Portrait, type C photograph on paper

Gift of the artist 2005

Hon Tom Hughes KC

Hon Tom Hughes KC

Hon Tom Hughes KC

Hon Tom Hughes KC, 2001

Portrait, oil on canvas

Commissioned with funds provided by Malcolm and Lucy Turnbull 2003

Martha Mary Robertson

Martha Mary Robertson

Martha Mary Robertson

Martha Mary Robertson, 1866

Johnstone O'Shannessy & Co

Portrait, albumen photograph on carte de visite

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Malcolm Robertson in memory of William Thomas Robertson 2018
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program

James McClelland

James McClelland

James McClelland

James McClelland, 1946

Nancy Borlase AM

Portrait, oil on composition board

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Gillian Appleton (McClelland) 1999
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program

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