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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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Dame Judith Anderson

Dame Judith Anderson

Dame Judith Anderson

Dame Judith Anderson, 1962

Portrait, pen and ink and drybrush on paper

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 1999

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George Fetting

George Fetting (b. 1964) is a Sydney-based photographer specialising in portrait, travel and editorial work.

8 portraits in the collection

Sir Les Patterson

Sir Les Patterson

Sir Les Patterson

Sir Les Patterson, 1999

Portrait, type C photograph on paper

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2001

Roslyn

Roslyn

Roslyn

Roslyn, 2016

Portrait, oil on linen

Purchased 2017

Klaus Friedeberger in Sydney

Klaus Friedeberger

Klaus Friedeberger (1922-2019) fled Germany for England at the age of sixteen, and the next year found himself on the Dunera bound for internment in Australia.

3 portraits in the collection

Dame Judith Anderson

Dame Judith Anderson AC DBE

Dame Judith Anderson AC DBE (1897–1992) was an Adelaide-born stage and film actress well known for her role as the sinister Mrs Danvers in Alfred Hitchcock's Rebecca (1940).

1 portrait in the collection

Portrait 63

Rod McNicol's method and motivation, 19th century Indigenous peoples, Barrie Cassidy on Bob Hawke, five generations of the Kang family from Korea and more.

Mick Molloy

Mick Molloy

Mick Molloy

Mick Molloy, 2009

Portrait, type C photograph on paper

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2009

Bob Ellis

Bob Ellis

Bob Ellis (1942-2016) was a journalist, columnist, screenwriter, film director and playwright.

3 portraits in the collection

Michael Kelly

Michael Kelly

Michael Kelly

Michael Kelly, 1998

Portrait, soft ground etching on paper.

Gift of the artist 2005. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

Tetsuya Wakuda

Tetsuya Wakuda

Tetsuya Wakuda

Tetsuya Wakuda, 2004

Portrait, type C photograph on paper

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2005

The tennis player (Ken Rosewall)

Ken Rosewall AM MBE

Ken Rosewall AM MBE (b. 1934), champion tennis player, won the Australian Open in 1953 and again nineteen years later in 1972 (he remains both the youngest, and oldest, person to win the title).

1 portrait in the collection

Sir John Young

Sir John Young

Sir John Young

Sir John Young, c. 1862

Freeman Brothers

Portrait, albumen paper photograph on carte de visite

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2015

Portrait 66

Portrait 66

The Huxleys, National Portrait Gallery London’s masterpieces, Jennifer Higgie on portraits of women by women, Tamara Dean, Bangarra, Glynis Jones on fashion photographers, and NPG/NGV collaboration.

Bob Ellis

Bob Ellis

Bob Ellis

Bob Ellis, 1999

Portrait, oil on canvas

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds from the Basil Bressler Bequest 2001

Bob Ellis

Tribute

Magazine article, 2016

Bob Ellis (1942–2016) was a journalist, columnist, screenwriter, film director, playwright, speechwriter and critic.

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