Max Meldrum (1875-1955), artist and teacher, studied at the NGV School before beginning work as a freelance illustrator and cartoonist.
2 portraits in the collection
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by Timothy Fairfax AC 2003
Ian 'Molly' Meldrum AM (b. 1946) has a long history of involvement and influence in the Australian rock music industry.
1 portrait in the collection
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Mrs Shirley Greathead 2009
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2004
Hayward 'Bill' Veal was born in Eaglemont, Victoria, and studied in Melbourne with AD Colquhoun and Max Meldrum between the ages of fifteen and twenty-four.
1 portrait in the collection
Graeme Inson studied in Melbourne with Max Meldrum and became a leading exponent of Meldrum's methods at his own school, established in Sydney in 1955.
5 portraits in the collection
AD (Archibald Douglas) Colquhoun studied art with his father Alexander, a Glasgow-born painter and critic living in Melbourne, and also at the NGV School and in classes with Max Meldrum.
1 portrait in the collection
Meg Padgham studied at East Sydney Technical College and the Meldrum School.
1 portrait in the collection
West Australian-born Lesley Moline (née O’Toole) studied at Perth Technical College before moving to Melbourne in 1933.
1 portrait in the collection
William Beckwith (Bill) McInnes studied at the NGV School and later undertook study tours of Europe and the UK.
5 portraits in the collection
George Coates, Melbourne-born artist, started his art career in a stained glass workshop, attending classes with Frederick McCubbin at the National Gallery school at night.
1 portrait in the collection
Love versus art
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of John Hamilton 1999
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program
Ivy Shore, daughter of a South Australian suffragette, trained as a seamstress before marrying a financier and moving to Vaucluse.
2 portraits in the collection
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Dr Penny Olsen, Peter Woollard and Artemis Georgiades 2015
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