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Bree Pickering

Executive

National Portrait Gallery Director Bree Pickering leads the executive team.

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Rudolph Buchner

Little is known of Rudolph Buchner, a Sydney photographer whose parents lived in Manly.

2 portraits in the collection

Practising the Minuet (Miss Hilda Spong)

Practising the Minuet (Miss Hilda Spong)

Practising the Minuet (Miss Hilda Spong)

Practising the Minuet (Miss Hilda Spong), 1893

Portrait, oil on canvas

Purchased with funds provided by the Ian Potter Foundation 2008

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Wedgwood and Bentley

Josiah Wedgwood (1730-1795), potter and industrialist, became an apprentice to his potter brother, Thomas, at an early age.

1 portrait in the collection

The Gordon Darling Hall

Policies and plans

Governance & Board

Polices and plans that direct the Gallery's work

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Michel Lawrence

Michel Lawrence (b.1948) was born in Kings Cross, Sydney and raised in Canterbury, Melbourne.

3 portraits in the collection

Practising the Minuet (Miss Hilda Spong)

Hilda Spong

Hilda Spong (1875-1955), actress, came to Australia with her family when she was thirteen.

1 portrait in the collection

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W.A. Bowring

Walter Bowring, born and educated in Auckland, contributed cartoons to the New Zealand observer and The weekly press, exhibited with the Canterbury Society of Arts and studied with Orpen and John in London, where he contributed to Punch, before arriving in Sydney in 1925.

3 portraits 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

Kate

Favourite portraits

General content

National Portrait Gallery staff introduce their favourite portraits from the exhibition.

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Narelle Autio

Narelle Autio (b. 1969) went to art school in South Australia intending to become a painter, but ‘somehow ended up’ with a camera.

1 portrait in the collection

Marcia Langton

Collection in focus: Brook Andrew

Previous exhibition, 2017

Experience the artistic clout of Brook Andrew’s portraits of Marcia Langton AM and Anthony Mundine.

Carla Zampatti

Carla Zampatti

In their own words

In their own words

Recorded 2019

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Falk Studios

Falk Studios was established by Melbourne-born photographer H. Walter Barnett in George Street, Sydney in 1885.

5 portraits in the collection

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Elliott and Fry

Elliott & Fry, a photography studio and photographic film manufacturer, was founded in 1863 at 55-56 Baker Street, London by Joseph John Elliott and Clarence Edmund Fry.

2 portraits in the collection

Reverend James Buller

James Buller

James Buller (1812-1884), Wesleyan missionary, emigrated to Australia in 1835 from Helston, Cornwall, hoping to join a mission in the South Seas.

1 portrait in the collection

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