Hon Thomas Hughes AO QC (b. 1923), lawyer and former politician, was born in Sydney and educated at Riverview before serving in the RAAF during World War 2.
3 portraits in the collection
Robert Hughes AO (1938-2012) was the senior art critic for Time magazine and one of Australia’s famous expatriates of the 1960s.
5 portraits in the collection
Meredith Hughes explores a key Portrait Gallery work, emerging into the infinite iterations of identity.
William Morris Hughes (1862-1952) was Labor and National Party Prime Minister of Australia from 1915 to 1923.
5 portraits in the collection
Commissioned with funds provided by Malcolm and Lucy Turnbull 2003
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 1999
Commissioned with funds provided by Malcolm and Lucy Turnbull 2003
Commissioned with funds provided by Malcolm and Lucy Turnbull 2003
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2012
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2002
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 1998
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 1998
Robert Hughes Black ED MD DTM&H Dip Anth FRACP (1917-1988) was a world authority on malaria and Professor of Tropical Medicine in the Commonwealth Institute of Health, University of Sydney, for twenty years.
1 portrait in the collection
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Suzie Campbell 2001
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Ric Techow and Jenny Techow-Coleman in memory of Roy and Bet Techow 2001
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2009
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Ian Ross 2001
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
Magda Keaney talks with Bill Leak about his bold new portrait of Robert Hughes in the National Portrait Gallery collection.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 1999. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2006
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Emeritus Professor Colin A Hughes 2015
This issue of Portrait Magazine features Bill Leak's portrait of Robert Hughes, Polly Borland's photographs, Bill Brandt, Andy Thomas, Tracey Moffatt and more.
Mrs Lucy Hughes Turnbull AO has accepted an invitation to become the new Chief Patron of the National Portrait Gallery.
Herbert Benjamin George Larkin CBE (c. 1871- 1944), shipping administrator, came to Australia from England and joined the office of the Australian Steam Navigation Company.
1 portrait in the collection
Thomas Joseph Carr (1839–1917) was the second Catholic archbishop of Melbourne, the successor to James Alipius Goold.
2 portraits in the collection
Sir Lloyd Dumas (1891-1973), journalist, began his career as a cadet for the Adelaide Advertiser.
1 portrait in the collection
Archbishop Daniel Mannix (1864-1963) was Catholic Archbishop of Melbourne from 1917 to 1963.
1 portrait in the collection
Sir Ernest Fisk (1886-1965), radio pioneer and businessman, began his career as one of the earliest wireless telegraphists in the British Post Office.
2 portraits in the collection
New York-born Irving Browning (1895-1961) was a self-taught photographer and cinematographer who between 1920 and 1940 created a comprehensive body of work documenting New York City during an era of rapid growth.
1 portrait in the collection
The late Australian photographer Stuart Campbell produced superb photographs of Australian actors of stage and screen.
Lucio Galletto OAM (birth date undisclosed) was born into a family of farmers and restaurateurs in north-west Italy.
1 portrait in the collection
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the Dumas Family 1999
Art, war, scandal
Davida Allen is a Queensland artist. As a student at Brisbane's Stuartholme School in the 1960s she had Betty Churcher as an art teacher.
2 portraits in the collection
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Patrick Corrigan AM 2008
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2009
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
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2006
Jim Paterson, painter, printmaker and sculptor, was born in Melbourne and completed his diploma in Fine Arts at Prahran Technical College in 1969.
1 portrait in the collection
The National Portrait Gallery acknowledges and thanks all its supporters.
Rod McNicol's method and motivation, 19th century Indigenous peoples, Barrie Cassidy on Bob Hawke, five generations of the Kang family from Korea and more.
Sir David Low, caricaturist, published his first cartoon in the British comic Big Budget at the age of eleven, while resident in his native New Zealand.
5 portraits in the collection
David Rankin OAM (b. 1946) came to Australia with his English parents at the age of two in 1948.
1 portrait in the collection
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the Estate of Stuart Campbell 2012
Purchased 2012
Jiawei Shen (b. 1948), artist, was born in China in 1948 and began to gain recognition as a painter during the Cultural Revolution.
13 portraits in the collection
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2003
Tony Adam (b. 1938) model, grazier and farmhand, grew up in Melbourne and attended Melbourne Grammar school, but left when he was sixteen.He went to work on Angledool and Llanillo stations in outback New South Wales and Queensland.
1 portrait in the collection
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2012
Donald Friend (1915-1989), painter, writer and diarist, studied at the RAS and Dattilo-Rubbo’s school in Sydney before spending 1935 and 1936 at the Westminster School in London.
2 portraits in the collection
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the Margaret Olley Art Trust 2003
Dr Sarah Engledow was appointed Historian at the National Portrait Gallery in 1999.
Gift of Isaac Wakil AO 2019
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Mrs Jane Fisk 2012
Gift of Patrick Corrigan AM 2004. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Lawrence Daws 2012
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program
Sir John Michael Higgins GCMG (1862-1937), metallurgist, government adviser and company director, was the son of a miner and was indentured to a pharmacist at 14.
1 portrait in the collection
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2004. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program
Headspace 7: Me and My Place, the seventh in the National Portrait Gallery's series of student exhibitions, will be presented at Commonwealth Place. Me and My Place is the curatorial theme for the 2006 exhibition.
Seventeen of Australia’s thirty prime ministers to date are represented in the contrasting sizes, moods and mediums of these portraits.
Commissioned with funds provided by Tim Fairfax AC 2018
Michael Kimmelman, Chief Art Critic of The New York Times and author of Portraits: Talking with Artists at the Met, the Modern, the Louvre and Elsewhere, presented the National Portrait Gallery Third Anniversary Lecture on 2 March 2002. He was generously brought to Australia by the Gordon Darling Foundation and Qantas.
The considered matching of artist to subject has produced an amazing collection of unique and original works in the permanent collection of the National Portrait Gallery
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Lucio Galletto OAM 2012
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program
Rennie Ellis: Aussies All is a celebration of the life and work of the late Australian photographer Rennie Ellis.
Purchased 2018
A toast to the acquisition of an unconventional new portrait of former Prime Minister, Stanley Melbourne Bruce.
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.
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.
Sarah Engledow on a foundational gallery figure who was quick on the draw.
The full-length portrait of HRH Crown Princess Mary of Denmark by artist Jiawei Shen, has become a destination piece for visitors.
The exhibition Portraits for Posterity celebrates gifts to the Gallery, of purchases made with donated funds, and testifies to the generosity and community spirit of Australians.
Sharon Peoples contemplates costumes and the construction of identity.
Sarah Engledow explores the history of the prime ministers and artists featured in the exhibition.
Penelope Grist charts an immersive path through Stuart Spence’s photography.
Karl James gives short shrift to doubts about the profile of General Sir John Monash.
Dr. Sarah Engledow tells the story of Australia's first Federal statistician, Sir George Knibbs.
It’s a matter beyond dispute that in the entire history of Australian art, it’s Noel McKenna who’s painted the liveliest rendition of the head of a Chihuahua.
Sarah Engledow describes the fall-out once Brett Whiteley stuck Patrick White’s list of his loves and hates onto his great portrait of the writer.
Traversing paint and pixels, Inga Walton examines portraits of select women in Tudors to Windsors: British Royal Portraits.
Sarah Engledow ponders the divergent legacies of Messrs Kendall and Lawson.
Dr Sarah Engledow puts four gifts to the National Portrait Gallery’s Collection in context.
Sarah Engledow looks at three decades of Nicholas Harding's portraiture.
