Grace Cossington Smith OBE (1892–1984) was a pioneer of modernist art in Australia.
1 portrait in the collection
Recorded 1965
Purchased 2002
The National Portrait Gallery acquired the self-portrait by Grace Cossington Smith in 2003.
Close contemporaries, Thea Proctor, Margaret Preston and Grace Cossington Smith were frequently sources of inspiration and irritation to each other.
George Case (life dates unknown) and his wife Grace Egerton (d. 1881), variety performers, evidently made several successful tours of Australia in the 1860s and 1870s, although the precise dates of their visits are unknown.
1 portrait in the collection
Grace Carroll contemplates the curious case of Christian Waller.
Grace Carroll discusses the portrait of the late-eighteenth century gentleman pickpocket George Barrington.
Grace Carroll on the gendered world of the Wentworths.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2010
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Mrs SM Asplin 2011
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Mrs SM Asplin 2011
Joshua Smith studied sculpture with Rayner Hoff and took classes in drawing and painting at Julian Ashton's Sydney Art School.
5 portraits in the collection
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the Estate of Eric Smith 2019
Dick Smith (b. 1944), businessman, aviator, film-maker and explorer, developed interests in radio and the bush as a boy.
2 portraits in the collection
Eric Smith (1919-2017), painter, was born in Brunswick, Melbourne, and trained in commercial art at the Brunswick Technical College before serving in the army during World War 2.
6 portraits in the collection
