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Louis Kahan AO
Professor Harry Messel, 1973
Portrait, oil on canvas laid on composition board
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Mrs Lily Kahan 2006
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program
Louis Kahan AO
Harry Messel, n.d.
Portrait, fibre-tipped pen and pen and ink on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Mrs Lily Kahan 2017
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program
Harry Messel AC CBE
Biography
Harry Messel AC CBE (1922-2015), scientist and academic, was born in Canada and gained his qualifications there and in Scotland and Ireland.
2 portraits in the collection
John Hearder
Harry and Penelope Seidler, 15 December 1958
Portrait, photograph on paper
Gift of Penelope Seidler AO 2021
Sahlan Hayes
Harry Williams, 2005
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on resin-coated paper
Purchased 2006
Robin Sellick
Harry Kewell, 2006
Portrait, type C photograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2006
Louis Kahan AO
Harry Seidler, n.d.
Portrait, pencil on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Mrs Lily Kahan 2017
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program
David Moore
Harry Seidler, Killara, Sydney, 1984 (printed 2000)
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
The series 'David Moore: From Face to Face' was acquired as a gift of the artist and with financial assistance from Timothy Fairfax AC and L Gordon Darling AC CMG 2001
Max Dupain OBE
Walter Gropius and Harry Seidler, 1954
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Purchased with funds provided by Timothy Fairfax AC 2003
Julian Kingma
Harry Kewell, 2011
Portrait, type C photograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2012
Ern McQuillan OAM
Tony Roche, Harry Hopman and John Newcombe,
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2003
Sir Leslie Ward, Vincent Brooks, Day & Son, Vanity Fair Magazine
fresh from the Channel Fleet (Sir Harry Holdsworth Rawson), 1901
Portrait, chromolithograph on paper
Purchased 2015
Patrick Dawson
Australian Aboriginal Cricketers, 1867
Portrait, albumen silver photograph on original lithograph title sheet
Purchased with funds provided by L Gordon Darling AC CMG 2009
Harry Borden
Michael Hutchence, 1997
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 1999
Harry Hudson
Flynn of the Inland, 1955-1956
Portrait, pen, ink and gouache on paper
Purchased 1999
an unknown artist
Binem Grunstein, c. 1948
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Harry Grunstein and Sarah Grunstein in memory of their father 2015