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Basil Philip Bressler, who died in 2000, was a surveyor with an amateur interest in art and music.
Lauren Dalla examines the life of Basil Bressler, the art patron responsible for one of the NPG's most important bequests.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds from the Basil Bressler Bequest 2001
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds from the Basil Bressler Bequest 2001
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds from the Basil Bressler Bequest 2001
Basil Hetzel AC (1922-2017), medical scientist, came to South Australia as a three year old and was educated - like Nobel Prize winners William Lawrence Bragg, Howard Florey and Robin Warren - at St Peter's College and the University of Adelaide.
1 portrait in the collection
Commissioned with funds provided by Mrs Diana Ramsay AO 2008
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Commissioned with funds from the Basil Bressler Bequest 2001
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Commissioned with funds from the Basil Bressler Bequest 2001
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Commissioned with funds from the Basil Bressler Bequest 2001
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Commissioned with funds from the Basil Bressler Bequest 2001
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Commissioned with funds from the Basil Bressler Bequest 2001
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Commissioned with funds from the Basil Bressler Bequest 2001
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Commissioned with funds from the Basil Bressler Bequest 2001
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds from the Basil Bressler Bequest 2001
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds from the Basil Bressler Bequest 2001