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Henri van Raatle, c. 1910
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Purchased with funds provided by L Gordon Darling AC CMG 2009
Listening to form
Magazine article by Jane Kinsman, 2007
National Gallery of Australia curator Jane Kinsman discusses the portraiture of Henri Matisse.
Conrad Westermayr after Jean Henri Cless
François Péron, c. 1805
Portrait, engraving on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2010
Henri van Raatle
Biography
Henri van Raalte (1881-1929), etcher and curator, moved to Western Australia in 1910 having trained in his home town of London and at schools in Belgium and Holland.
1 portrait in the collection
Rosemary Madigan
Alice Giles, 1984
Portrait, pastel on paper
Gift of Alice Giles AM, in memory of her mother Rosemary Madigan 2023
Louis Kahan AO
Self portrait, 1949
Portrait, pen and ink on book page
Gift of Dr Gene Sherman AM and Brian Sherman AM 2012. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Peter Brew-Bevan
The Dance - David McAllister, 2016
Portrait, inkjet print on paper
Commissioned with funds provided by The Stuart Leslie Foundation 2016
David Malin
Self portrait, 1976 (printed 2005)
Portrait, type C photograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2005
Timothy Noble
Charles Blondin, 1874
Portrait, carte de visite photograph
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2018
Emily Hunt
(Leila Waddell) Chain of being, 2023-2024
Portrait, etching on paper
Gift of the artist 2025. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Jacques van Meergeren
Biography
Jacques Henri Emil van Meegeren was a Dutch illustrator and painter. He is the the son of the infamous art forger, Han van Meegeren [Henricus Antonius] (1899-1947) who produced several paintings in the 1930s and 1940s which he passed off as originals by Vermeer , Pieter de Hooch and others..
1 portrait in the collection
Insightful
Magazine article by Robert McFarlane, 2004
Henri-Cartier-Bresson invented the grammar for photographing life in the 20th century.
Antoine Fauchery
Biography
Antoine Fauchery (1823–1861) was a Parisian artist and writer, an occasional collaborator with Henri Murger, author of Scènes de la vie de bohème which was a chief source of the opera La bohème.
2 portraits in the collection
Desiderius Orban
Biography
Desiderius Orban OBE (1884-1986) taught himself to paint while a student at the university of Budapest.
1 portrait in the collection
Hail Cézanne
Magazine article by John Elderfield, 2017
John Elderfield lauds the portraiture of Paul Cézanne, the artist described by both Matisse and Picasso as ‘the father of us all’.
Capturing the Mouse
Magazine article by Dr Sarah Engledow, 2004
Nancy Wake AC (b. 1912), one of the most decorated women of World War 2, earned the name the 'White Mouse' for her maddening ability to evade the Gestapo.