René Primevère Lesson (1794–1849), French surgeon, naturalist, ornithologist, and herpetologist, entered the Naval Medical School in Rochefort at the age of sixteen.
1 portrait in the collection
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2012
Jo Bertini describes the evolution of her portrait of artists and friends Kitty Kantilla and Freda Warlapinni.
Nell (b. 1975), conceptual and performance artist, painter and sculptor, completed an undergraduate degree at the Sydney College of the Art before undertaking an honours year at the University of California in 1996.
1 portrait in the collection
Australian photographer Karin Catt has photographed world leaders, a host of rock stars and Oscar-winning compatriots Russell Crowe, Nicole Kidman, and Cate Blanchett.
Patrick McCaughey explores a striking Boyd self portrait.
Australian photographer Karin Catt has shot across the spectrum of celebrity, her subjects including rock stars, world leaders and actors.
Angus and the arbiters talk (photo) shop for the National Photographic Portrait Prize.
A collection of thirty-seven caricatures by the artist Joe Greenberg capture the heroes and villians of Australian business in the 1980s.
Joanna Gilmour on the exuberant union of fashion pioneers Jenny Kee and Linda Jackson, captured in luminescent splendour by artist Carla Fletcher.
Peter Wilmoth’s boy-journalist toolkit for antagonising an Australian political giant.
Karen Vickery delights in a thespian thread of the Australian yarn.
Penelope Grist speaks to Robert McFarlane about shooting for the stars.
Inner Worlds evokes a broad view of psychology as a discipline. However, the specific interests of the practitioners whose portraits are included in the exhibition incorporate specialist areas including psychoanalysis.
