Stella Bowen, painter and writer, grew up in Adelaide, where she studied with Margaret Preston.
1 portrait in the collection
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2003
A newly acquired work by Stella Bowen adds to the National Portrait Gallery's growing collection of important Australian self-portraits.
Stella Ramage on Father McHardy’s Bougainville portraiture.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by Graham Smith 2009
![Vice-Royalty. "A Quoter of Poetry" [George Bowen, Governor of Victoria] from the series "Masks and Faces", 1873 Tom Durkin, The Weekly Times](/files/8/5/1/c/i13467-sl.jpg "Vice-Royalty. \"A Quoter of Poetry\" [George Bowen, Governor of Victoria] from the series \"Masks and Faces\", 1873 Tom Durkin, The Weekly Times")
![Vice-Royalty. "A Quoter of Poetry" [George Bowen, Governor of Victoria] from the series "Masks and Faces", 1873 Tom Durkin, The Weekly Times](/files/8/5/1/c/i13467-ths.jpg "Vice-Royalty. \"A Quoter of Poetry\" [George Bowen, Governor of Victoria] from the series \"Masks and Faces\", 1873 Tom Durkin, The Weekly Times")
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2018
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the Cornelius family 2019
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2001
This issue of Portrait Magazine features Roy de Maistre, the Australians in Hollywood exhibtion, Stella Bowen, portraits of scientists and more.
In love and war
Finalist, MDPA 2013
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds from the Basil Bressler Bequest 2002
Col Levy (b. 1933), ceramic artist, originally trained as a manual arts teacher, and had the opportunity to study pottery at the National Art School in Sydney in 1956.
1 portrait in the collection
Former NPG Director, Andrew Sayers describes the 1922 Self-portrait with Gladioli by George Lambert.
Charles Ulm (1898-1934) began work as a clerk in a stockbroking office after he left school, but enlisted under a false identity in the 1st Battalion of the AIF just before his 16th birthday.
2 portraits in the collection
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Dr Robert Edwards AO 1999
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program
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