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Sidney Myer (1878-1934), retail magnate and philanthropist, arrived in Melbourne in 1898 as a penniless Russian immigrant named Simca Baevski.
1 portrait in the collection
Kenneth Baillieu Myer DSC AC (1921- 1992) was a businessman and philanthropist.
1 portrait in the collection
Dame Margery Merlyn Baillieu Myer DBE (1900–1982), philanthropist and fundraiser, was the daughter of a hotelier, George Baillieu.
1 portrait in the collection
Sir Sidney Nolan AC OM CBE (1917–1992) was one of the most original and inventive Australian artists of the postwar decades, and one of few Australian artists to achieve an international reputation in the twentieth century.
7 portraits in the collection
Sir Sidney Kidman, pastoralist (1857-1935), is Australia's 'cattle king'.
2 portraits in the collection
Sidney Riley Studios operated concurrently at several Sydney locations (Balmain, Rozelle, Pitt St., Sydney, Marrickville & Chatswood), and in Brisbane, between 1911 and 1954.
1 portrait in the collection
Neilma Baillieu Gantner (1922–2015), writer and philanthropist, was the second child of Melbourne retailer Sidney Myer and his wife Merlyn (née Baillieu).
1 portrait in the collection
Part of the Melbourne intellectual avant-garde of the 1940s, Howard Matthews was a brilliant student.
1 portrait in the collection
David Campbell (1952–1984) decided to become an artist while a student at Erina High on the New South Wales Central Coast.
3 portraits in the collection
Joy Hester (1920-1960) was the only female member of the Angry Penguin movement, which included artists Tucker, Sidney Nolan and Arthur Boyd.
1 portrait in the collection
Paul Montford came to Australia from England in 1921, attracted by the light, which he believed to be conducive to monumental sculpture.
2 portraits in the collection
The Seekers formed in Melbourne in 1962 when jazz singer Judith Durham met Athol Guy, who was in a folk trio with Bruce Woodley and Keith Potger.
3 portraits in the collection
Livingston Hopkins, cartoonist, was born in Ohio and fought in the American Civil War before beginning his cartooning career in New York.
3 portraits in the collection
Rudy Komon (1908-1982) was an art dealer and gallery director. After working as a journalist in Czechoslovakia, where he served with the Czech resistance during the war, he emigrated to Sydney and opened an antique store.
3 portraits in the collection
Sir George Coles CBE (1885–1977) was the founder of the retail concern GJ Coles and Coy.
1 portrait in the collection
Adrian Lawlor, critic and artist, came to Australia from his native England at the age of about twenty.
2 portraits in the collection