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Lorrie Graham
John Spooner, 2001 (printed 2011)
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2011
John Spooner
John Cargher holding a long play record, c. 1986
Portrait, pen and ink and brush and ink on paper laid on cardboard
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2009
John Spooner
Biography
John Spooner (b. 1946), editorial cartoonist and illustrator, graduated in law before turning to political illustrating and cartooning in the early 1970s.
3 portraits in the collection
John Spooner
Portrait of Les Tanner, 1984
Portrait, etching on paper
Purchased 2004
![John Mitchel with John Martin and Father John Kenyon [the three Johns]](/files/e/4/6/6/i14565-sl.jpg "John Mitchel with John Martin and Father John Kenyon [the three Johns]")
![John Mitchel with John Martin and Father John Kenyon [the three Johns]](/files/e/4/6/6/i14565-ths.jpg "John Mitchel with John Martin and Father John Kenyon [the three Johns]")
Edouard Gatel
John Mitchel with John Martin and Father John Kenyon [the three Johns], 1866
Portrait, carte de visite photograph
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2016
Kim Spooner
Social currency (Eva Cox), 1999
Portrait, encaustic on canvas
Gift of Eva Cox 2003. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Kim Spooner
(Margaret Whitlam) by the strength of her skin, 1998
Portrait, encaustic on canvas
Gift of the artist 2004. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
John Williams
John Laws, 1981
Portrait, montage of gelatin silver photographs
Purchased 1999
John Buchanan Smith
John Roper, 1860s
Portrait, carte de visite photograph
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of John Sandefur 2019
John Elliott
John Williamson, Springbrook, Qld, 2004
Portrait, type C photograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2005
an unknown artist
John Burton, 1951
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Mr and Mrs John Burton 2007
Power suits
The fit within the frame
Exhibition
Celebrate the fashion icon in a playful display of more than 100 collection works and select loans. Meet significant Australians in their finest from Johnny O’Keefe, Sherbet and Nicole Kidman to influential judges, politicians, entrepreneurs and scientists.
Achille Simonetti
John Fairfax, 1875
Portrait, carrara marble on scagliola column
Gift of John Fairfax Holdings Ltd 2002. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Charles Summers
John Fairfax, 1873
Portrait, carrara marble
Gift of John Fairfax Holdings Ltd 2002. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
John Thomson after William Derby
Captain Sir John Franklin, 1830
Portrait, engraving on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Ted and Gina Gregg 2012
Kim Spooner
Biography
Kim Spooner (b. 1955), artist, studied at the University of Sydney and the Julian Ashton School, from which she gained a travel scholarship.
2 portraits in the collection