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The National Portrait Gallery acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of Country throughout Australia and recognises the continuing connection to lands, waters and communities. We pay our respect to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures and to Elders both past and present.

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Match man, Salisbury by John Dempsey

Very small business

General content

Under the ‘Old Poor Law’, people begging on the streets could be arrested, so to avoid punishment, they often pretended to commerce, offering the most marginal of goods and services.

A surface against which we can move, 2014 by Sam Leach

No small wonder

Magazine article by Joanna Gilmour, 2015

Joanna Gilmour describes how artist Sam Leach works on a small scale to grand effect.

Self portrait

Small worlds

Magazine article by Joanna Gilmour, 2010

Bess Norriss Tait created miniature watercolour portraits full of character and life.

Self portrait

Mark Loane

'The small space we are given'

Ophthalmic surgeon and former Wallabies Captain, Mark Loane, discusses his sporting and professional career.

Self portrait

Shane Maloney and Rick Amor

'Big canvas, small head'

Artist Rick Amor and author Shane Maloney relate divergent experiences of the creation of Shane's portrait.

Small Holdings (The Earl Carrington Baron Charles Robert Carrington)

Small Holdings (The Earl Carrington Baron Charles Robert Carrington)

Small Holdings (The Earl Carrington Baron Charles Robert Carrington)

Small Holdings (The Earl Carrington Baron Charles Robert Carrington), 1907

Sir Leslie Ward, Bemrose Dalziel Ltd, Vanity Fair Magazine

Portrait, chromolithograph on paper

Gift of Ronald Walker 2002

Margo Kingston, 2006 by Elaine Campaner

Margo Kingston, 2006

by Elaine Campaner

Liangis Theatre

A lovely lecture theatre with a small foyer space ideal for catering and registration.

Catherine, 2015 by Lynette Letic

Catherine, 2015

by Lynette Letic

A look I’ve never seen before, 2014 by Ketakii Jewson-Brown

A look I’ve never seen before, 2014

by Ketakii Jewson-Brown

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William Johnson

William Johnson was a commercial photographer who operated a studio on the corner of Pitt and Market Streets in Sydney from the 1890s to the 1920s.

4 portraits in the collection

John Schaeffer AO - art collector and philanthropist

John Schaeffer AO - art collector and philanthropist

John Schaeffer AO - art collector and philanthropist

John Schaeffer AO - art collector and philanthropist, 2014

Portrait, oil on canvas

Purchased with funds provided by Harold Mitchell AC 2015

Old Parts, 2013 by Donna Stevens

Old Parts, 2013

by Donna Stevens

Rosita, 2006 by Chris Budgeon

Rosita, 2006

by Chris Budgeon

Eric

Eric

Eric

Eric, 2020

Portrait, archival inkjet pigment print on paper, trifold hinged triptych

Purchased with funds provided by Susan Armitage 2024

Silent Strength, 2021 Wayne Quilliam

Silent Strength

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