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Professor John Mulvaney AO CMG
Biography
Emeritus Professor Derek John Mulvaney AO CMG (1925–2016), one of Australia’s foremost prehistorians, has often been described as the father of Australian archaeology.
1 portrait in the collection
Professor Derek Freeman
Biography
Derek Freeman (1916–2001) was an anthropologist. Born in New Zealand, he gained his doctorate from Cambridge before moving to Canberra in 1955 to work at the Australian National University.
1 portrait in the collection
Emeritus Professor Derek Denton AC
Biography
Emeritus Professor Derek Denton AC (1924-2022), physiologist, was born in Launceston and graduated in medicine from the University of Melbourne in 1947.
3 portraits in the collection
Janenne Eaton
Biography
Janenne Eaton (b.1950) lectured in painting at the Canberra School of Art from 1980 to 1991, and became well known for drawings depicting the bleaker aspects of Canberra's urban enviroment.
1 portrait in the collection
Dame Margaret Scott AC DBE
Biography
Dame Margaret Scott AC DBE (1922-2019) ballerina and teacher, was scarred by her education in a Johannesburg convent boarding school and left her home on a Swaziland farm in 1939.
1 portrait in the collection
Rhys Maengwyn Jones
Biography
Rhys Maengwyn Jones (1941-2001), archaeologist and academic, grew up in Wales and studied at Cambridge before taking up an appointment at the University of Sydney in 1963.
1 portrait in the collection