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Reg Richardson AM
Biography
Reg Richardson AM, charity fundraiser, grew up in Broken Hill, and left school at fifteen for an office job with the Zinc Corporation mine.
1 portrait in the collection
Reg Richardson AM, 2014
Mitch Cairns
Portrait, oil on linen
Purchased with funds provided by the Circle of Friends 2015
Victor Richardson, 1920s
an unknown artist
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph, hand coloured on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2017
Kim Bonython in his Sydney Gallery with work on exhibit by Col Jordan, c. 1970
Kerry Dundas
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Purchased 2012
Meg Padgham
Biography
Meg Padgham studied at East Sydney Technical College and the Meldrum School.
1 portrait in the collection
Anthony Buckley & Constantine Ltd
Biography
Anthony Buckley and Constantine are portrait photographers by appointment to Their Royal Highnesses Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh.
1 portrait in the collection
Lady Natasha Johnston
Biography
Natasha Johnston (1914-1984) was born Nataliya Konstantinovna Bagration-Moukhranskya, Princess Natasha Bagration, in Crimea.
1 portrait in the collection
We Were There
Magazine article by Benjamin Law, 2025
Preserving stories, subverting power and posing nude: Benjamin Law explores the potency and persuasiveness of portraiture.
Lady Natasha Johnston, 1968
Cecil Beaton
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Hugo Vickers 2005
Edward Telford Simpson
Biography
Edward Telford Simpson (1889-1965), Alice's grandson, was born the only son of Edward Percy Simpson and his wife Anne.
1 portrait in the collection
John Hamilton, 1969
Meg Padgham
Portrait, oil on canvas
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of John Hamilton 1999
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program
Tribute: Mary Isabel Murphy
About Face article
The Chairman, Board, Director and all the staff of the National Portrait Gallery mourn the loss of our Benefactor, Mary Isabel Murphy.
Tom Goldner
Vox pops
The portrait's of my mother, Catherine, and the photograph was taken in a family home that we had and my mother was relocating to Tasmania.
Lleyton Hewitt AM
Biography
At twenty years old, Lleyton Hewitt AM (b. 1981) was the youngest male tennis player ever to be ranked world number one.
1 portrait in the collection
The National Portrait Prizes
29 January 2020
Archived media releases 2020
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.
Mitch Cairns
Biography
Mitch Cairns (b. 1984), painter and cartoonist, won the 2017 Archibald Prize with a portrait of his partner, artist Agatha Gothe-Snape.
2 portraits in the collection