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Ted Egan AM, folklorist, raconteur, songwriter and performer, has lived in the Northern Territory since 1949.
1 portrait in the collection

Mary Anne Egan (also Marianne or Marian, née Cheers, 1818–1857), was born in Sydney, the daughter of ex-convicts.
1 portrait in the collection



Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2005



Purchased with funds provided by the Liangis family 2014

Absence rends the heart asunder

Ellen Kent examines the portrait of Vincent Lingiari and Prime Minister Gough Whitlam taken by photographer Mervyn Bishop.

Death masks, post-mortem drawings and other spooky and disquieting portraits... Come and see how portraits of infamous Australians were used in the 19th century.