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Eleanor Wingate
Biography
Eleanor Wingate (née Rouse, 1813–1898) was the second youngest daughter of colonial public servant and landowner Richard Rouse (1774–1852) and his wife Elizabeth (née Adams, 1772–1849), who’d come to Sydney as free settlers in 1801.
1 portrait in the collection
Eleanor Dark AO
Biography
Eleanor Dark AO (1901-1985), writer, was born and educated in Sydney but moved to the Blue Mountains to live after her marriage in 1922.
1 portrait in the collection
Eleanor Dark
In their own words
In their own words
Recorded 1960 or 1961
Eleanor Dark, c. 1935 (printed 1940)
Max Dupain OBE
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Purchased with funds provided by Timothy Fairfax AC 2003
Eleanor Constance Gude
Biography
Eleanor Constance 'Nornie' Gude (1915–2002) was born in Ballarat and was fifteen when she was accepted to study painting at the Ballarat Technical Art School.
1 portrait in the collection
Eleanor Wingate (née Rouse), c. 1850
an unknown artist
Portrait, hand coloured photograph
Gift of Pamela Glasson 2009
Collected by Leila Haigh (nee Rouse)
John Sumner, 1984
Eleanor Constance Gude
Portrait, watercolour on paper
Gift of Professor David Phillips 2023
Hugh Ramsay
'Letters from Paris'
Portrait story
Hugh Ramsay's letters were written while he was living in Paris to his family back in Australia.
Hugh Ramsay
Biography
Hugh Ramsay (1877-1906), painter, was born in Scotland but arrived in Australia as a baby.
3 portraits in the collection
Alexander Ramsay
Biography
Alexander Ramsay CBE (1914-1978), public servant, trained and worked as a teacher before gaining his degree at the University of Adelaide in 1941.
1 portrait in the collection
Self portrait (Full Length in front of Easel), 1901-1902
Hugh Ramsay
Portrait, oil on canvas
Gift of the Estate of John Oswald Wicking 2003
Andrew Mitchell Ramsay
Biography
Andrew Mitchell Ramsay (1809-1869), clergyman, was Melbourne's first Presbyterian minister.
1 portrait in the collection
Alexander Maurice Ramsay, 1978
Robert Hannaford AM
Portrait, oil on composition board
Gift of Janet, Andrew, Kathryn and Eleanor Ramsay, daughters and son of Alexander Maurice Ramsay and Amy Jane Ramsay 2010. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Portrait of Ambrose Patterson, 1901-1902
Hugh Ramsay
Portrait, oil on canvas
Gift of the Estate of John Oswald Wicking 2003
Velasquez Touch
Magazine article by Andrew Sayers AM, 2004
Former NPG Director, Andrew Sayers, explores the creative collaborations between four Australian artists living in Paris during the first years of the twentieth century.
Wunderkind lost
Magazine article by Inga Walton, 2021
Inga Walton on the brief but brilliant life of Hugh Ramsay.