Nicholas-Martin Petit was born in Paris, the son of a fan maker, and learned graphic art in the studio of Jacques Louis David.
9 portraits in the collection
Sir James Martin (1820-1886) was fourth Chief Justice of New South Wales.
1 portrait in the collection
Gabrielle Martin is a Melbourne artist. She graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, with a Bachelor of Arts in Fine Art (Painting) in 1991 and a Graduate Diploma in Fine Art (Painting) in 1993.
4 portraits in the collection
Martin Philbey is a Melbourne-based freelance photographer who specialises in sports photography and images of musicians and the music industry.
4 portraits in the collection
Mandy Martin, born 1952 in Adelaide, is a practising artist who has held more than 110 solo exhibitions in Australia, Mexico and the USA.
3 portraits in the collection
Martin Sharp (1942-2013), printmaker, painter, cartoonist, designer, songwriter and film-maker, is one of Australia's foremost pop artists.
7 portraits in the collection
Dr Arthur Martin a’Beckett FRCS (1812-1871) surgeon and New South Wales parliamentarian studied at London University from 1831 before undertaking a residency in Paris, centre for innovation in the practice of hygiene, pathological anatomy and physiopathology.
2 portraits in the collection
Louis-Claude Desaulses de Freycinet (1779–1842), hydrographer and cartographer, sailed with Nicolas Baudin on the Expédition aux terres australes, a journey of discovery, commissioned by Napoléon, to the unknown southern coast of New Holland.
1 portrait in the collection
François Jacques Dequevauviller was the son of the French engraver Nicolas-Barthelemy François Dequevauviller (1745–1807).
1 portrait in the collection
Alec Murray was a photographer whose Alec Murray's Album: Personalities of Australia was published by Sydney Ure Smith in about 1948.
1 portrait in the collection
Nicolas Thomas Baudin (1754–1803), cartographic surveyor and naturalist, was sent by the French government to survey the coast of Australia in 1800.
1 portrait in the collection
David Gulpilil AM (b. 1953), actor and dancer, was born near Maningrida in Arnhem Land, a man of the Mandalbingu people.
4 portraits in the collection
Robert Whitaker, English photographer, spent three years in Melbourne in the early 1960s, becoming friends with Mirka and Georges Mora, Barry Humphries, Germaine Greer, the Heide crowd and Martin Sharp and Richard Neville.
1 portrait in the collection
Noah Taylor (b. 1969) left school at 16 to join Melbourne's St Martin's Youth Theatre.
1 portrait in the collection
Born in Sydney, Garry Shead studied at the National Art School in 1961-2.
3 portraits in the collection
Fiona Lowry is a Sydney-based artist. Having held her first solo exhibition in 2002, she exhibited at Sydney’s Gallery Barry Keldoulis from 2004 to 2010; from 2010 she was also represented by Hugo Michell in Adelaide, and she is currently handled by Martin Browne Contemporary in Sydney.
1 portrait in the collection
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