Harry Messel AC CBE (1922-2015), scientist and academic, was born in Canada and gained his qualifications there and in Scotland and Ireland.
2 portraits in the collection
Recorded 1972
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Mrs Lily Kahan 2006
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Mrs Lily Kahan 2017
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program
Harry Williams (b. 1951) was the first Indigenous footballer to represent Australia at international level.
1 portrait in the collection
Harry O'Reilly was a war artist working through WWI and friend of Colonel J.C.M.
1 portrait in the collection
Harry Borden is an English photographer who has specialised in photographing celebrities, among them Kylie Minogue.
1 portrait in the collection
Harry Hudson (1907-1974) was a Melbourne-based painter. His work was included in a number of group exhibitions at the Bridget McDonnell Gallery, Carlton in the 1980s along with those of such notable artists as Roland Wakelin, Grace Cossington-Smith and James Gleeson.
1 portrait in the collection
Harry Hopman (1906-1985), tennis professional, won seven major Australian titles in the 1930s, notably four mixed doubles with his first wife, Nell Hall.
1 portrait in the collection
Harry Kewell (b. 1978), Australia’s greatest ever soccer export, attended Sydney’s Westfields Sports High School and the NSW Soccer Academy before trialling with English club Leeds United in 1995, at the age of 16.
2 portraits in the collection
Harry Seidler AC OBE (1923-2006), architect and designer, was born in Vienna and completed his early architectural studies in England and Canada.
3 portraits in the collection
Recorded 1972
Recorded 1972
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Mr C.W. Traill 2001
An interview with photographer Harry Borden about his portrait of Michael Hutchence.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2006
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2006
Sir Harry Holdsworth Rawson GCB GCMG (1843–1910) was appointed governor of New South Wales in January 1902 having distinguished himself in the course of various conflicts as an officer of the Royal Navy.
1 portrait in the collection
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
The series 'David Moore: From Face to Face' was acquired as a gift of the artist and with financial assistance from Timothy Fairfax AC and L Gordon Darling AC CMG 2001
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2012
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Mrs Lily Kahan 2017
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 1999
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 1999
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by Timothy Fairfax AC 2003
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2015
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2003
Robin Sellick's portraits of Australian sportspeople include Harry Kewell, Adam Scott, Shane Warne, Mark Webber and John Newcombe.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2008
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by L Gordon Darling AC CMG 2009
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by L Gordon Darling AC CMG 2014
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by L Gordon Darling AC CMG 2014
Deep foundations, shared vision
Glorious: A Diamond Jubilee portrait of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II is a collection-based display representing The Queen in the early and late years of her glittering sixty-year reign.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Harry Grunstein and Sarah Grunstein in memory of their father 2015
Friendship, education, inspiration
George Henry Stevens (Harry) Trott (1866–1917) was the captain of the Australian cricket team which toured England and then to the USA and New Zealand from June to November 1896.
1 portrait in the collection
Michele Aboud, commercial, fashion and portrait photographer, is a graduate of the Photographic College of London and UCLA.
1 portrait in the collection
Harry Butler, Tim Flannery and Ian Kiernan
Tony Mitchell was in a band called Wheelbarrow, who released a single, 'Dame Zara' before Mitchell left to join Harry Young and Sabbath.
3 portraits in the collection
Binem (Bill) Grunstein (1921-2013), garment manufacturer and artist, escaped the Warsaw Ghetto in 1941, having seen his parents and most of his family members die of typhus or disappear.
1 portrait in the collection
The life of eccentric Sydney artist Harry 'The Kangaroo' Thornton is yet to be thoroughly researched.
2 portraits in the collection
Burnum Burnum (1936-1997), Woiworung-Yorta Yorta activist, storyteller and writer, was taken from his family as an infant.
2 portraits in the collection
Max Dupain OBE set up his studio in Sydney in 1934. Through the 1930s he took portraits and advertising shots, photographed ballet dancers and musicians for the ABC and gained exposure in the lifestyle magazine The Home.
84 portraits in the collection
Rod Laver MBE (b. 1938), tennis champion, is the only player in the history of the game to win the Grand Slam twice.
1 portrait in the collection
Born in Adelaide and raised in Darwin, Ben Baker currently resides in New York City and works internationally.
1 portrait in the collection
Aaron 'Tommy' Woodcock (1905-1985), horse strapper and trainer, was the son of a Cobb and Co driver and expressed his affinity with horses from an early age.
1 portrait in the collection
Neville Gruzman AM (1925–2005), architect and lecturer, was born in Sydney, the son of immigrants of Russian heritage.
1 portrait in the collection
The long game
Born in the United Kingdom, Sahlan Hayes lived with his family in the USA, New Zealand and the United Kingdom before settling in Australia.
9 portraits in the collection
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by James Bain AM and Janette Bain 2010
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 1998
Feeling sexy
Sydney Edward Gregory (1870–1929) was born on the site of the Sydney Cricket Ground, the son of batsman Ned Gregory (1839–1899), who was one of five boys from the same family who all played cricket at national or international level.
1 portrait in the collection
Henry (Harry) Donnan (1864-1956) notched up a total of 94 first class cricket matches between 1887 and 1901.
1 portrait in the collection
George Richmond, son of the miniature painter Thomas Richmond, grew up in London, took early artistic instruction from his father and enrolled in the Royal Academy Schools in 1824.
1 portrait in the collection
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by Marilyn Darling AC 2001
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2012
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2012
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
The series 'David Moore: From Face to Face' was acquired as a gift of the artist and with financial assistance from Timothy Fairfax AC and L Gordon Darling AC CMG 2001
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by L Gordon Darling AC CMG 2014
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
The series 'David Moore: From Face to Face' was acquired as a gift of the artist and with financial assistance from Timothy Fairfax AC and L Gordon Darling AC CMG 2001
Introduction The National Portrait Gallery’s photographic exhibition Flash: Australian Athletes in Focus explores various interpretations of Australian sporting men and women.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2004
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by James Bain AM and Janette Bain 2010
Ken Rosewall AM MBE (b. 1934), though never the world's number one tennis player, is often cited as the one who performed the best for longest.
1 portrait in the collection
Rose Scott (1847-1925), feminist and social reformer, devoted much of her life to campaigns that resulted in increased independence for Australian women.
1 portrait in the collection
Stevie Wright (1947-2015), singer songwriter, came to Australia from England at the age of nine.
2 portraits in the collection
Henry 'Harry' Crock AO (1929-2018), surgeon and educator, attended school and university in Perth and studied further in Melbourne, where he won the Rector's Medal for Debating at Newman College as well as academic honours including the Gold Medal for Anatomy and the Ryan Scholarship and Medal in Medicine and Surgery.
1 portrait in the collection
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2018
Neville Bonner (1922–1999) was the first Indigenous Australian elected to federal parliament.
2 portraits in the collection
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2007
Dawn Fraser (b.1937) swimming champion, had a stranglehold on the women’s 100 metres freestyle from 1956 to 1964.
2 portraits in the collection
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2003
Stevie Wright (1947-2015), singer-songwriter, came to Australia from England at the age of nine.
Pansy Montague, ‘La Milo’ (c. 1885-unknown) appeared as a chorus girl and actress in Melbourne from about 1898, and in 1901 understudied Nellie Stewart in Sydney.
10 portraits in the collection
Shepard Fairey is best known for his iconic poster Obama/Hope which he made in support of Barack Obama for the 2008 US election.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by L Gordon Darling AC CMG 2004
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2010
Henry (Harry) Edwards (1827–1891), actor and entomologist, arrived in Melbourne in 1853 after a short-lived attempt at studying for a career in law.
1 portrait in the collection
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2010
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by Graham Smith 2009
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by Tim Fairfax AC 2008
During his long and distinguished career Max Dupain took thousands of photographs of people
Vanity Fair Portraits traces the birth and evolution of photographic portraiture through the archives of Vanity Fair magazine.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2018
Australia has become recognised for the range and talent of its musicians, composers, conductors and celebrities in general associated with the music industry
The exhibition California Video at the J Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles demonstrated how video artists expand the boundaries of portraiture.
Jenny Gall delves into Starstruck to celebrate some of Australian cinema’s iconic women.
This exhibition showcases portraits acquired through the generosity of the National Portrait Gallery’s Founding Patrons, L Gordon Darling AC CMG and Marilyn Darling AC.
Thousand mile stare provides a unique portrait of people of rural Australia
Over the last five years the National Portrait Gallery has developed a collection of portrait photographs that reflects both the strength and diversity of Australian achievement as well as the talents of our photographers.
The exhibition will include works of art from the NPG Canberra's permanent collection with some inward loans and aims to highlight the achievements of notable Australians.
First Ladies profiles women who have achieved noteworthy firsts over the past 100 years.
Death masks, post-mortem drawings and other spooky and disquieting portraits... Come and see how portraits of infamous Australians were used in the 19th century.
Karl James reflects on soldier portraiture during the Great War.
Drawn from some of the many donations made to the Gallery's collection, the exhibition Portraits for Posterity pays homage both to the remarkable (and varied) group of Australians who are portrayed in the portraits and the generosity of the many donors who have presented them to the Gallery.
Deborah Hill talks figures with character, as the National Portrait Gallery touring exhibitions program welcomes its millionth visitor.
The exhibition Flash: Australian Athletes in Focus offers various interpretations of sporting men and women by five Australian photographers.
An interview with the photographer.
Bruce Petty's animated self portrait captures a life's journey compressed into a few minutes.
John Zubrzycki lauds the characters of the Australian escapology trade.
Dr. Sarah Engledow tells the story of Australia's first Federal statistician, Sir George Knibbs.
Gael Newton delves into the life and art of renowned Australian photographer, Max Dupain.
Martin Sharp fulfils the Pop art idiom of merging art and life.
Ensconced and meditative in crisp Tasmania, Joanna Gilmour pays tribute to passionate green advocate and photographer Olegas Truchanas.
Fiona Gruber investigates the work of Australian painter Kristin Headlam.
Tenille Hands explores a portrait prize gifted to the National Screen and Sound Archive.
Karl James gives short shrift to doubts about the profile of General Sir John Monash.
Joanna Gilmour profiles the life and times of the shutter sisters May and Mina Moore.
Aircraft designer, pilot and entrepreneur, Sir Lawrence Wackett rejoins friends and colleagues on the walls of the National Portrait Gallery.
Vanity Fair Editor David Friend describes how the rebirth of the magazine sated our desire for access into the lives of celebrities and set the standard for the new era of portrait photography.
Sarah Engledow lauds the very civil service of Dame Helen Blaxland.
Sarah Engledow writes about Gordon and Marilyn Darling and their support for the National Portrait Gallery throughout its evolution.
Sarah Engledow looks at three decades of Nicholas Harding's portraiture.
