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Hon. Sir Reginald Talbot KCB
Biography
The Hon Sir Reginald Talbot KCB (1841-1929), army officer and English MP, was governor of Victoria from April 1904 to July 1908.
1 portrait in the collection
Aldershot Cavalry (Major General Reginald Talbot), 1897
Sir Leslie Ward, Vincent Brooks, Day & Son, Vanity Fair Magazine
Portrait, chromolithograph on paper
Purchased 2013
Henry Talbot
Biography
Henry Fox Talbot (1920-1999), photographer, was born Henry Tichauer. The son of a middle-class Jewish family, he changed his name after fleeing Germany and being 'volunteered' out of England on the Dunera.
2 portraits in the collection
Carol Jerrems, 1973
Henry Talbot
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Gift of Patrick Corrigan AM 2015
Reginald Gray
Biography
Reginald Gray (1930–2013) was a professional portraitist. Born in Dublin, he studied at the National College of Art and Design, and became a designer for the Pike and Gate Theatres in Dublin and the Lyric Theatre in London.
1 portrait in the collection
Reginald Jerrold-Nathan
Biography
Reginald Henry Jerrold-Nathan (1889-1979) arrived in Australia from London in 1924, having studied under John Singer Sargent and William Orpen at the Royal Academy, where he was awarded a medal for portrait painting.
2 portraits in the collection
Portrait of Jill Neville, 1967 (completed 1997)
Reginald Gray
Portrait, oil and egg tempera on canvas
Gift of the artist 2002
Walter Reginald Hume, c. 1944
Sir William Dargie CBE
Portrait, oil on canvas
Gift of David Hume OAM 2016
Jessie Street, 1929
Reginald Jerrold-Nathan
Portrait, oil on canvas
Gift of the Street family and the Jessie Street National Women's Library 2010
Portrait of Dr John Bradfield, c. 1920-1924
Reginald Jerrold-Nathan
Portrait, oil on canvas
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the family of Dr J J C Bradfield 2006
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program
The Last Picture Show (Lewis Morley and Henry Talbot), 1999
Lewis Morley
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2003
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program
Massive road trauma, Colin Talbot
Carol Jerrems
Image
Sir Charles Moses, 1968
Mark Strizic
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Purchased with funds provided by the Basil Bressler Bequest 2003
Reveries
Photography and mortality
Previous exhibition, 2007
Featuring works by Australian and New Zealand photographers from the late 1970s up to the present day Reveries focuses on images made in the presence of or consciousness of death.
An affray which deserves particular mention
Ben Hall and his gang outdone, 6 February 1865
About Face article
Bushranger Ben Hall and his cronies held around 40 people hostage in a pub north-west of Goulburn, telling their captives ‘don’t be alarmed; we only came here for a bit of fun’.
Catherine Hamlin AC
Biography
Catherine Hamlin AC (1924–2020), obstetrician and gynaecologist, graduated from the University of Sydney in 1946 and went to work at Crown Street Women’s Hospital, where she met fellow doctor Reginald Hamlin.
1 portrait in the collection