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Valentine Green
Biography
Valentine Green, engraver, spent two years in a solicitor’s office in Evesham before abandoning the law and becoming a pupil of Robert Hancock, an engraver in Worcester.
1 portrait in the collection
John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, c. 1774
Valentine Green after Johann Zoffany
Portrait, mezzotint on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2015
Peta, 2011
by Eryca Green
Image
John Young
Biography
John Young, mezzotint engraver, studied under Valentine Green then worked with several of the painters who collaborated with Green, notably Benjamin West, John Hoppner and Johann Gerhard Huck.
1 portrait in the collection
Green in the Grooves
Tamara Henderson
Image
Dr Brown and Green Old Time Waltz, 1983
Harold Thornton
Portrait, oil on canvas
Gift of the Estate of Harold Thornton 2009
Self portrait in green hues, c. 1962
Roland Wakelin
Portrait, oil on composition board
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Philip Bacon AM 2001
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program
Len Green, 2007
by David Sandison
Image
Richard N (sitting on green chair backwards, 2 faces), 2000-2010
Howard Tangye
Portrait, mixed media on cardboard
Gift of the artist 2023
Janette Howard
Biography
Janette Howard (b. 1943), wife of former prime minister the Hon. John Howard OM AC, was born in Sydney.
1 portrait in the collection
Study for self portrait, c. 1965
Jean Appleton
Portrait, oil on cardboard
Gift of Elisabeth Green 2023
Study for self portrait, c. 1965
Jean Appleton
Portrait, oil on cardboard
Gift of Elisabeth Green 2023
Study for self portrait, c. 1965
Jean Appleton
Portrait, oil on cardboard
Gift of Elisabeth Green 2023
Peter Weir AM
Biography
Peter Weir AM (b. 1944) is a film director. Educated at Scots College and the University of Sydney, he worked as a stage hand at Channel 7 and made documentaries for the Commonwealth Film Unit before directing The Cars That Ate Paris in 1974.
1 portrait in the collection
Peter Weir, 1974 (printed 2001)
Gordon Glenn
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2001
Headspace 3
Being Me
Previous exhibition, 2002
The self-portrait enables students to explore emerging and changing aspects of their own identity, their sense of self, their place in the world, their experience of being human