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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.

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Charina Oeser

Charina Forge (now Oeser) studied at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in the early 1960s.

1 portrait in the collection

Dan Sultan

Dan Sultan

Dan Sultan

Dan Sultan, 2011

Portrait, type C photograph on paper

Purchased with funds provided by Ruth and Peter McMullin 2013

Lost Love, Yiyi is tired, and Waiting on the bridge, 2014

by Tiyan Melissa Kilie Baker

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Winner, MDPA 2014

John Dunn

John Dunn

John Dunn (1802-1894), flour miller and philanthropist, eked out a mean living as a mill manager in England before migrating to South Australia with his wife and son in 1840.

1 portrait in the collection

Lady Jessie and Sir Donald Bradman, Kensington Park, Adelaide, South Australia

A good innings

Childhood sweethearts

Robert H. Black MD

Robert H. Black MD

Robert H. Black MD

Robert H. Black MD, c. 1950

Portrait, oil on canvas laid on composition board

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 1999. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

Russell Drysdale, Tallow Beach, New South Wales

Russell Drysdale

Sir Russell Drysdale AC (1912-1981), painter, developed eye trouble in 1929, and had to leave boarding school for the first of many eye treatments which left him fearful of total blindness.

6 portraits in the collection

Francis Lymburner

Francis Lymburner

Francis Lymburner

Francis Lymburner, c. 1946

Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper

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

Francis Lymburner

Francis Lymburner

Francis Lymburner (1916-1972) was a Queensland-born artist who was educated at Brisbane Grammar and took art classes at Brisbane Technical College.

2 portraits in the collection

Martin Sharp

Martin Sharp

Martin Sharp

Martin Sharp, 1980

Portrait, type C photograph on paper

Purchased 2003

Who's Jo?

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Find out about the curator of the exhibition.

Jacob Nash

Jacob Nash

Jacob Nash (born 1982) is a Daly River artist and designer and was Head of Design at Bangarra Dance Theatre between 2010 and 2023, working on over 20 productions.

2 portraits in the collection

a Traveller (2nd Baron Lamington)

a Traveller (2nd Baron Lamington)

a Traveller (2nd Baron Lamington)

a Traveller (2nd Baron Lamington), 1892

Sir Leslie Ward, Vanity Fair Magazine

Portrait, chromolithograph on paper

Purchased 2015

Lisa McCune

Lisa McCune

In their own words

In their own words

Recorded 2022

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Annie May Moore

Annie May Moore (1881-1931) was born in New Zealand and studied at the Elam School of Art and Design in Auckland.

5 portraits in the collection

Rose Byrne

Rose Byrne

Rose Byrne (b. 1979), actor, was raised in the Sydney suburbs of Balmain and Newtown, and joined the Australian Theatre for Young People at the age of eight.

1 portrait in the collection

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