Mark Webber AO (b. 1976) was born in Queanbeyan, NSW, and after early success in karting moved up through the ranks of Australian and European motor racing.
2 portraits in the collection
When John Webber R.A. (c. 1752-1793), the son of a Swiss sculptor, living in London, submitted his work to the Royal Academy Schools, one of the first to admire his paintings was Dr Daniel Solander, the Swedish naturalist who had accompanied Cook and Banks on the first voyage.
3 portraits in the collection
Mark Strizic (1928-2012) was born in Berlin and migrated to Australia via Croatia in 1950.
12 portraits in the collection
Mark Ella AM (b. 1959) was one of four Australians named amongst the eleven inaugural ‘legends’ of the International Rugby Board Hall of Fame in 2013.
1 portrait in the collection
Mark Lang has worked as a photographer for twenty-five years and specialises in large format panoramic photographs of Australian landscapes.
1 portrait in the collection
Mark Mohell has been Image Services Manager at the National Portrait Gallery, Canberra since 2010.
1 portrait in the collection
Mark Tedeschi QC, the New South Wales Crown Prosecutor, has had twelve solo photographic exhibitions and has participated in over 20 joint exhibitions in Australia, Italy, France and the USA.
1 portrait in the collection
Sir Mark Sheldon (1871-1956), businessman, was the Chairman of the first Repatriation Board of NSW.
1 portrait in the collection
Mark Kimber grew up in Adelaide and gained his BA in Fine Arts at the South Australian School of Art in 1981.
1 portrait in the collection
Mark Taylor AO (b. 1964) was captain of the Australian cricket team from 1994 until his retirement from Test cricket in 1999.
1 portrait in the collection
Mark Seymour, singer/songwriter, was the lead singer of Australian band Hunters and Collectors before launching his successful solo career in 1998.
1 portrait in the collection
Sir Mark Oliphant AC KBE (1901-2000), physicist, was a pioneer in the development of radar and a member of the international teams that effected the artificial disintegration of the atomic nucleus.
4 portraits in the collection
Mark Richards (b. 1957), surfer and surfboard shaper, began his competitive career in 1973, when he came second in the Australian Titles Open division at the age of 16.
1 portrait in the collection
Mark Loane AM (b.1954), eye surgeon and former rugby international, made his debut for the Wallabies against Tonga at the age of 18 when he was a second year medical student at the University of Queensland.
1 portrait in the collection
Gino Zardo (b. 1968) is a Queanbeyan-born photographer who moved to New York in the 1990s, where he lived and worked for twenty years.
1 portrait in the collection
Steve Waugh (b. 1965) became captain of the Australian cricket team when Mark Taylor retired in early 1999.
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
Samuel Johnson Woolf, American painter, lithographer and illustrator, was born in New York City and named after the English essayist Samuel Johnson.
1 portrait in the collection
Janenne Eaton (b.1950) lectured in painting at the Canberra School of Art from 1980 to 1991, and became well known for drawings depicting the bleaker aspects of Canberra's urban enviroment.
1 portrait in the collection
Robin Sellick (b. 1967), photographer, is well known for his distinctive portraits of Australian actors, musicians, politicians and athletes.
17 portraits in the collection
David Simpson, photographer, is represented in the Art Gallery of South Australia, his subjects including HM Queen Elizabeth II, Don Bradman, David Gulpilil and Sir Mark and Lady Oliphant.
1 portrait 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
Paul Haefliger (1914-1982) trained in Sydney and then in London with Bernard Meninsky and Mark Gertler.
1 portrait in the collection
John Witzig, photographer, writer and designer, contributed his first piece to Surfing World in 1963.
5 portraits in the collection
Marcia Ella (b. 1963) was the first Indigenous woman to play international netball for Australia.
1 portrait in the collection
Sir Vincent Charles Fairfax CMG (1909-1993), pastoralist, was the son of JHF Fairfax.
1 portrait in the collection
Matcham Skipper (1921-2011), sculptor and jeweller, undoubtedly made a significant contribution to the artistic richness of Australia.
1 portrait in the collection
Nathan Kelly (b. 1976), photographer, studied fine arts at the Sydney College of the Arts at the University of Sydney before being named as one of Australia’s top 30 photography graduates by Australian Commercial Photography magazine.
3 portraits in the collection
Robert Oatley AO (1928–2016), businessman, was one of Australia’s most successful wine industry figures.
Gary Ella (b. 1960) is a Yuin and Bidjigal man who grew up in La Perouse with eleven siblings.
1 portrait in the collection
The Crown Studio was a Sydney-based firm situated on the corner of Market and George streets.
3 portraits in the collection
Warburton trained at Hornsby Technical College and Alexander Mackie College in the 1970s.
2 portraits in the collection
H. Walter Barnett (1862-1934) was a leading portrait photographer of the late Victorian, Edwardian and interwar periods.
12 portraits in the collection
Jean Bellette (1908-1991), painter, studied in her native Hobart before moving to Sydney to train with Julian Ashton.
1 portrait in the collection
Adam Cullen (1965-2012), painter, studied art in Sydney from 1986 to 1999, when he obtained his master’s degree in fine arts from the University of New South Wales.
8 portraits in the collection
Raelene Sharp (b. 1957), artist, was born in Melbourne and began her career as a graphic artist in advertising.
2 portraits in the collection
Tony Shaw AM (b. 1953), rugby union footballer, made his debut for Queensland in 1973 and went on to play 112 games for his state team.
1 portrait in the collection
Bill Leak (1956-2017), portrait painter and caricaturist, trained at the Julian Ashton art school in the mid-1970s, and began his career painting landscapes.
7 portraits in the collection
Scottish-born photographer Nikki Toole (b. 1965) studied film and photography in London and Edinburgh before moving to Melbourne.
3 portraits in the collection
Wayne Lynch (b. 1951), surfer and surfboard shaper, grew up in Lorne, Victoria, not far from Bells Beach.
2 portraits in the collection
Walter Langhammer went to India before World War 2, fleeing the Nazis in Austria.
1 portrait in the collection
Collette Dinnigan AO (b. 1965), designer and company director, was born in South Africa and settled in Australia in 1985 after a period in New Zealand, where she studied fashion design at the Wellington Polytechnic.
1 portrait in the collection
Christina 'Chrissy' Amphlett (1959–2013), singer/songwriter, was best known for her energetic performances as the lead singer of rock band the Divinyls, often in her trademark school uniform and fishnet stockings.
1 portrait in the collection
Scoring first prize in New South Wales for Art in the 1983 HSC was a signal that a talented creative career lay ahead and this has indeed proven the case.
2 portraits in the collection
Nigel Butterley AM (1935-2022) was one of the foremost Australian composers and pianists of his generation.
1 portrait in the collection
Sydney-born Richard Walsh (b. 1941) is an Australian publisher, journalist, broadcaster, editor, lecturer and company director.
1 portrait in the collection
The Hon. Chief Justice Susan Kiefel AC (b. 1954) became Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia in 2017 and is the first woman to have held the role.
1 portrait in the collection
Paul Gaimard (1796-1858), naturalist and naval surgeon, joined the French navy after distinguishing himself at the naval medical school at Toulon.
1 portrait in the collection
Dave Tice (b. 1950) was the lead singer for the trailblazing Australian hard rock band Buffalo.
1 portrait in the collection
Jean Appleton (1911–2003), painter and art teacher, studied at the East Sydney Technical College, completing a diploma in drawing and illustration in 1932.
2 portraits in the collection
The Australian Tapestry Workshop (formerly the Victorian Tapestry Workshop) was established in 1976, following two years of planning and research on the part of its founding patrons, Dame Elisabeth Murdoch and Lady Joyce Delacombe.
2 portraits in the collection
