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Gift of The Honourable Margaret Lusink AM 2021



Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Ted and Gina Gregg 2012



Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2014



Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Ted and Gina Gregg 2012

A portrait story describing the amazing life of World War II resistance fighter, Nancy Wake.

Nancy Wake AC (1912–2011) was one of the most-decorated women of the Second World War.
1 portrait in the collection

Nancy Borlase AM (1914–2006), painter and writer, was born in New Zealand, and had to be dug out of the wreckage when an earthquake struck Napier in late 1931.
4 portraits in the collection

Nancy Menetrey (née Wilkinson) (1924-2024) was born in Sydney in 1924.
1 portrait in the collection

Recorded 1962

Dame Nancy Buttfield DBE (1912–2005) was the first South Australian woman member of Federal Parliament.
1 portrait in the collection

Nancy Bird Walton AO OBE (1915–2009), aviatrix, decided she wanted to be a pilot when, at age eight, she saw a plane make an emergency landing on a beach near her home.
2 portraits in the collection

Recorded 1977

Recorded 1977



Purchased 2004



Purchased with funds provided by L Gordon Darling AC CMG 2004



Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Gillian Appleton (McClelland) 1999
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program