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Louis Kahan AO
Herbert Cole 'Nugget' Coombs, n.d.
Portrait, fibre-tipped pen on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Mrs Lily Kahan 2017
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program
Louis Kahan AO
Herbert Cole 'Nugget' Coombs, early 1970s
Portrait, pen and ink on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Mrs Lily Kahan 2017
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program
Norma Redpath
Head of H.C. Coombs, c. 1972 (cast 2018)
Portrait, bronze
Purchased 2018
Jacqueline Mitelman
Xavier Herbert, early 1980s (printed 2018)
Portrait, inkjet print on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2018
Ray Crooke AM
Xavier Herbert (study), c. 1977
Portrait, oil on canvas on board
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2012
H.C. Coombs
Biography
Herbert Cole ('Nugget') Coombs (1906–1997) was the governor of the Commonwealth (later Reserve) Bank of Australia from 1949 to 1968.
3 portraits in the collection
Herbert Badham
Self portrait with glove, 1939
Portrait, oil on canvas board
Purchased 1999
Arnold Shore
HV (Doc) Evatt, 1935
Portrait, oil on canvas
Gift of Elizabeth Evatt and Penelope Seidler 1998. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Herbert Beecroft
Edward Lloyd Jones, c. 1885
Portrait, oil on canvas
Gift of Susanna de Vienne, Sarah Wood and David Lloyd Jones 2009. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
L E. Reynolds
H.B.G Larkin, 1928
Portrait, pen and ink on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2012
Thomas Herbert Maguire
Robert Brown, 1850
Portrait, lithograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2013
Nison Tregor
Bert Hinkler, 1930s
Portrait, cast metal with gold finish
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by Alan Foulkes in memory of Mark Graham Cleghorn 2012
Thomas Herbert Maguire, M & N Hanhart
John Gould, 1849
Portrait, lithograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2013
Thomas Herbert Maguire
William Jackson Hooker, 1851
Portrait, lithograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2013
Thomas Herbert Maguire
William Henry Harvey, c. 1850
Portrait, lithograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2012
an unknown artist
Dr HV Evatt, Albert Namatjira and Dame Mary Gilmore having a meal, c. 1950s
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by Marilyn Darling AC 2008