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Carl Cooper (1912-1966), ceramic decorator, contracted poliomyelitis in his twenties.
1 portrait in the collection
Carl Kahler was born in Austria and trained in Munich, Paris and Italy, where he won several important prizes.
2 portraits in the collection
Sir Daniel Cooper (1821-1902), merchant and philanthropist, came to Australia in 1843 and opened a business, Cooper Bros, which was later reputed to be 'the most extensive mercantile house in the Australian colonies'.
2 portraits in the collection
David Alexander Stewart Campbell (1898-1970), wool buyer and journal editor, undertook a woolclassing course in Sydney, worked as a jackeroo, served in the AIF in Egypt and gained further experience with wool in England before he was inducted into the wool trade in Melbourne.
1 portrait in the collection
Daniel Solander (1733-1782), naturalist, was a student of Carl Linnaeus, the Swede who devised and systemised the classification of plants and animals used today.
3 portraits in the collection
Charina Forge (now Oeser) studied at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in the early 1960s.
1 portrait in the collection
Robert O'Hara Burke (1821-1861), explorer, came to Australia in 1853 and joined the Victorian police force.
4 portraits in the collection
Sean Godsell (b. 1960) a Melbourne-based architect, is known internationally for his distinctive residential architecture.
1 portrait in the collection
Dymphna Clark (1916-2000), linguist, translator, chatelaine and matriarch, was born Hilma Dymphna Lodewyckx.
1 portrait in the collection
Sir Jack Brabham OBE (1926-2014), racing car driver, was born in Hurstville, NSW, and studied mechanical engineering before working as a mechanic for the RAAF during WW2.
2 portraits in the collection
Sir John Longstaff, born in Clunes, Victoria, studied at the NGV school from 1883 to 1887 and thenceforth at Corman's in Paris.
1 portrait in the collection
Terry Clune (b. 1932), gallerist, established Terry Clune Galleries with Frank MacDonald at 59 McLeay Street Potts Point in 1957.
1 portrait in the collection
Ernest Hutcheson (1871-1951), pianist, composer and music teacher, started performing at the age of five.
1 portrait in the collection
Heath Bergersen (b. 1976) is an Indigenous actor working across Australian television series and movies.
1 portrait in the collection
Joseph Banks KCB (1743-1820), naturalist, grew up on his father's Lincolnshire estate, Revesby, but his lifelong interest in botany developed at Eton and Oxford.
13 portraits in the collection
The Australian Tapestry Workshop (formerly the Victorian Tapestry Workshop) was established in 1976, following two years of planning and research on the part of its founding patrons, Dame Elisabeth Murdoch and Lady Joyce Delacombe.
2 portraits in the collection