Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Mrs Lily Kahan 2017
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program
Galarrwuy Yunupingu, Neville Bonner, Lowitja O'Donoghue, Mandawuy Yunupingu and Adam Goodes
This display celebrates 100 years of the Historic Memorials Collection and its role in commissioning portraits of parliamentary and judicial figures in Australia.
Celebrates the centenary of the first national art collection, the Historic Memorials Collection, housed at Australia's Parliament House.
Michael Desmond discusses the portrait of Senator Neville Bonner by Robert Campbell Jnr.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by Tim Fairfax AC 2008
Dora Toovey, born in Bathurst, trained in Sydney under Antonio Dattilo-Rubbo, James R Jackson (whom she married) and John Passmore.
2 portraits in the collection
Neville Bonner (1922–99) was the first Indigenous Australian elected to federal parliament.
2 portraits in the collection
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