Sir J.W. Downer was a delegate from South Australia to the Constitutional Convention, Sydney, 1891.
1 portrait in the collection
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2009
Avril Thomas (b. 1956), artist, was born in Malaysia and went to boarding school in Scotland and Australia.
2 portraits in the collection
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2005
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2006
John Dowie was born in Prospect, South Australia, and attended the South Australian School of Art part-time in the second half of the 1920s.
1 portrait in the collection
As part of its ongoing program of commissions of portraits of prominent Australians, the National Portrait Gallery has unveiled a portrait of Her Excellency Marjorie Jackson-Nelson by South Australian artist Avril Thomas.
Drawn from some of the many donations made to the Gallery's collection, the exhibition Portraits for Posterity pays homage both to the remarkable (and varied) group of Australians who are portrayed in the portraits and the generosity of the many donors who have presented them to the Gallery.
Sarah Engledow lauds the very civil service of Dame Helen Blaxland.
