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Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2010
John Sumner (1924-2013), described as the 'father of Australian drama', trained and worked in repertory theatres in England and Scotland before the war, during which he visited Melbourne as a sailor.
1 portrait in the collection
Karen Vickery delights in a thespian thread of the Australian yarn.
The National Portrait Gallery today announced finalists for the inaugural Darling Portrait Prize, a national new $75,000 prize for Australian portrait painting, and released selected images from the final prize pool for the popular National Photography Portrait Prize.
The Darling Prize is a new annual prize for Australian portrait painters, painting Australian sitters. The winner receives a cash prize of $75,000.
The biographical exhibition of Barry Humphries was the first display of its kind at the National Portrait Gallery.