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Grace Carroll contemplates the curious case of Christian Waller.
Grace Carroll discusses the portrait of the late-eighteenth century gentleman pickpocket George Barrington.
Grace Carroll on the gendered world of the Wentworths.
Tom Carroll (b.1961), former professional surfer, made the finals of the 1979 Pipe Masters on his first ever world tour, finishing 24th in the world that same year.
1 portrait in the collection
Regarded as one of the greatest surfers of all time, Tom Carroll describes his career.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2011
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Jan Carroll 2019
George Case (life dates unknown) and his wife Grace Egerton (d. 1881), variety performers, evidently made several successful tours of Australia in the 1860s and 1870s, although the precise dates of their visits are unknown.
1 portrait in the collection
Grace Cossington Smith OBE (1892-1984) was an artist who was at the forefront of the Australian modernist movement.
1 portrait in the collection
Recorded 1965
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2002
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Patrick Corrigan AM 2004
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program
The National Portrait Gallery acquired the self-portrait by Grace Cossington Smith in 2003.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2010
Close contemporaries, Thea Proctor, Margaret Preston and Grace Cossington Smith were frequently sources of inspiration and irritation to each other.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Mrs SM Asplin 2011