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Peter Brew-Bevan
Turia Pitt, 2017 (printed 2021)
Portrait, inkjet print on paper
Purchased with funds provided by the Annual Appeal for Contemporary Australian Photography 2021
Charles Brome after William Owen
The Right Honourable William Pitt, 1799
Portrait, line engraving on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2016
The Right Honourable William Pitt
Biography
William Pitt the Younger (1759-1806) was Tory prime minister of Great Britain from 1783 to 1801, and of United Kingdom from 1804 to 1806.
1 portrait in the collection
Robert McFarlane
Reg Livermore, Pitt Street, Sydney, 1965 (printed 2020)
Portrait, inkjet print on paper
Purchased 2020
You, looking at me
Magazine article by Elspeth Pitt, 2022
Elspeth Pitt chats with Archibald Prize-winning artist Yvette Coppersmith about performance, coincidences and the intersection of art and life.
Between life and death you’re a miracle
Magazine article by Elspeth Pitt, 2024
Elspeth Pitt talks to multidisciplinary artist Nell about ghosts, artistic lineages and hybrid art forms.
Turia Pitt
Biography
Turia Pitt (b. 1987), author, businesswoman, motivational speaker and athlete, grew up in Ulladulla, New South Wales and studied engineering and science at the University of NSW, graduating in 2010.
1 portrait in the collection
Giovanni Vendramini, T Cadell & W Davies after William Evans, Sir William Beechey
George Rose, 1811
Portrait, engraving on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2012
Richard Read Jnr
John Connell, c. 1830
Portrait, watercolour on paper laid on cardboard
Gift of Eleanor Thornton 2013. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Max Dupain OBE
Hera Roberts, 1936
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Gift of Rex Dupain 2003. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
an unknown artist, The Australasian Sketcher
The Sculling Match at Sydney for the Championship of the World, 1877
Portrait, wood engraving on paper
Purchased 2015
Edwin Dalton
John Fairfax, c. 1860
Portrait, pastel on paper laid on canvas
Gift of John Fairfax Holdings Ltd 2002. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Thomas Foster Chuck
The Burke and Wills Monument, 1869
Portrait, albumen paper photograph on carte de visite
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2001
John Davis
William Francis King, 'The Flying Pieman', c. 1869
Portrait, albumen paper carte de visite
Gift of the family of FW Macpherson 2010
George Rose
Biography
George Rose, joint Secretary of the British Treasury at the time of the First Fleet, joined the civil service after leaving the Royal Navy in 1762.
1 portrait in the collection
In conversation with Colin Davidson
General content
Belfast-based artist, Colin Davidson talks about the fortuitous happenstances that led to him painting a range of famous faces (from Brad Pitt to the Queen, and everyone in between!)