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Elizabeth Read (née Archer), c. 1853

Purchased 2019

John Connell, c. 1830

Gift of Eleanor Thornton 2013. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

Miss Elizabeth Roberts, 1830

Purchased 2013

John Frost, 1839

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2009

Elegance in exile

Elegance in exile is an exhibition surveying the work of Richard Read senior, Thomas Bock, Thomas Griffiths Wainewright and Charles Rodius: four artists who, though exiled to Australia as convicts, created many of the most significant and elegant portraits of the colonial period.

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Jackie French

Recorded 2022

Christos Tsiolkas

Recorded 2017

David Malouf

Recorded 2016

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Tom Goldner

The portrait's of my mother, Catherine, and the photograph was taken in a family home that we had and my mother was relocating to Tasmania.

Ned, 2011

National Photographic Portrait Prize 2016

The National Photographic Portrait Prize exhibition is selected from a national field of entries, reflecting the distinctive vision of Australia's aspiring and professional portrait photographers and the unique nature of their subjects.