Walter Bowring, born and educated in Auckland, contributed cartoons to the New Zealand observer and The weekly press, exhibited with the Canterbury Society of Arts and studied with Orpen and John in London, where he contributed to Punch, before arriving in Sydney in 1925.
3 portraits in the collection
Gift of John Fairfax Holdings Ltd 2002. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of John Fairfax Holdings Ltd 2002
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the descendants of James Robert Millar Robertson 2011
Walter Lindrum OBE (1898–1960), billiard player, was born into family of billiard champions in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, where his father ran billiard rooms and a bookmaking business.
1 portrait in the collection
A portrait story exploring the life of Walter Lindrum, one of the greatest billiard players of all time.
H. Walter Barnett (1862-1934) was a leading portrait photographer of the late Victorian, Edwardian and interwar periods.
12 portraits in the collection
Walter Withers (1854-1914), painter, interior designer and teacher, trained at the Royal Academy in London before coming to Australia at the end of 1882.
1 portrait in the collection
Walter Preston, engraver and convict, came to New South Wales aboard the Guildford in 1812.
1 portrait in the collection
Walter Langhammer went to India before World War 2, fleeing the Nazis in Austria.
1 portrait in the collection
A National Portrait Gallery travelling exhibition.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by L Gordon Darling AC CMG 2006
Ernest Walter Histed was born in Brighton, UK, but made his reputation as a photographer in Chicago and later in Pittsburgh.
1 portrait in the collection
Sir Samuel Walter Griffith (1845-1920), chief justice and premier, was born in Wales and came to Australia aged eight with his minister father and family.A top student, at the University of Sydney Griffith excelled at classics and mathematics; the Mort scholarship enabled him to travel to Europe.
1 portrait in the collection
Sir Walter Murdoch KCMG (1874–1970), academic and essayist, was born in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, and came to Australia with his family in 1884.
1 portrait in the collection
Walter Frederick Gale (1865-1945), banker and astronomer, joined the Savings Bank of New South Wales in 1888.
1 portrait in the collection
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2012
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2013
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2009
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Dr Robert Crocker 2003
Walter Lindrum, world-famous billiards player, was one of Australia's greatest sporting champions.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Peter Roberts 2015
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Peter Roberts 2015
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Peter Roberts 2015
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Peter Roberts 2015
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Peter Roberts 2015
Gift of an anonymous donor 2004
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2001
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of an anonymous donor 2004
Purchased with funds provided by Timothy Fairfax AC 2003
Purchased 2012
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of David Hume OAM 2016
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Jocelyne MacLeod 2008
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2001
Purchased 2020
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2010
Commissioned with funds provided by Marilyn Darling AC 2009
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2011
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2001
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2001
Gift of the Estate of Nancy Wiseman 2007
Professor Marcia Langton, artist Brook Andrew and printer Trent Walter discuss the creation of Marcia's portrait.
This issue of Portrait Magazine features Robert Hannaford, Walter Lindrum, John Brack, judicial portraits, Vincent Lingiari and more.
Gift of the artist 2017
Suzanne Cory AC (b. 1942) is a molecular biologist whose research has contributed to the understanding of immunology and the development of cancer.
1 portrait in the collection
Friendship, education, inspiration
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by the Ian Potter Foundation 2008
Little is known of Rudolph Buchner, a Sydney photographer whose parents lived in Manly.
2 portraits in the collection
Michel Lawrence (b.1948) was born in Kings Cross, Sydney and raised in Canterbury, Melbourne.
3 portraits in the collection
Hilda Spong (1875-1955), actress, came to Australia with her family when she was thirteen.
1 portrait in the collection
Percy Lindsay (1870-1952), artist, was the eldest child of Robert and Jane Lindsay, born, as were his nine siblings, in Creswick, Victoria.
4 portraits in the collection
Falk Studios was established by Melbourne-born photographer H. Walter Barnett in George Street, Sydney in 1885.
5 portraits in the collection
Elliott & Fry, a photography studio and photographic film manufacturer, was founded in 1863 at 55-56 Baker Street, London by Joseph John Elliott and Clarence Edmund Fry.
2 portraits in the collection
James Buller (1812-1884), Wesleyan missionary, emigrated to Australia in 1835 from Helston, Cornwall, hoping to join a mission in the South Seas.
1 portrait in the collection
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 1998
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 1998
Sir Gustav Nossal AC CBE (b. 1931) is an immunologist and medical scientist.
4 portraits in the collection
Sir Colin Syme AK (1903-1986) was chairman of BHP from 1952 to1971. Born in Perth, he attended Scotch College in Claremont, the universities of Perth and Melbourne and the University of New South Wales before becoming a solicitor in the Melbourne firm of Hedderwick, Fookes and Alston in 1923.
1 portrait in the collection
Melbourne Spurr, born in Decorah, Iowa, arrived in Hollywood around 1917.
2 portraits in the collection
David Davies began studying art at the School of Mines and Industries in his birthplace, Ballarat.
1 portrait in the collection
Witzel Studios was founded in Los Angeles by photographer Albert Walter Witzel (1879–1929) in 1909 and within a few years had become one of the city’s foremost portrait studios.
1 portrait in the collection
'Diving Venus' and 'the perfect woman' are two of the numerous descriptions applied to Annette Kellerman, who achieved international fame during the early decades of the twentieth century.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 1999
Sir James McNeill CBE (1916-1987) was chairman of BHP from 1977 to 1984.
1 portrait in the collection
Haskins is known for his poetic combinations of images and this exhibition of 'extended' portraits builds on this approach.
George Baird Shaw (1812-1883), painter and printmaker, arrived in Australia in 1856.
2 portraits in the collection
Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet OM AK KBE (1899–1985), medical scientist, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1960 for his work with Sir Peter Medawar on acquired immunological tolerance, paving the way for successful human organ transplants.
5 portraits in the collection
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by Sir Roderick Carnegie 2003
Robin Gerard Penleigh Boyd (1919-1971), was born and educated in Melbourne, and a member of the famous Australian family of artists and writers.
1 portrait in the collection
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by Sir Roderick Carnegie 2003
Jacques Miller AC (b. 1931), immunologist, spent his early childhood in Shanghai and Lausanne before coming to Sydney with his parents at the age of ten.
2 portraits in the collection
Sir John Longstaff, born in Clunes, Victoria, studied at the NGV school from 1883 to 1887 and thenceforth at Corman's in Paris.
1 portrait in the collection
Purchased with funds provided by Karen McLeod Adair and Anthony Adair 2004
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds from the Basil Bressler Bequest 2003
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2012
In 1988 philanthropists Gordon and Marilyn Darling decided to make an Australian portrait gallery a reality, overseeing the development of the 1992 touring exhibition Uncommon Australians.
Dame Jean Macnamara DBE (1899–1968), medical doctor and scientist, was involved in crucial research into poliomyelitis during the 1920s and 1930s.
1 portrait in the collection
Commissioned with funds provided by Neil Archibald and Alan R. Dodge AM, Brandon and Angela Munro, Dr Walter Ong and Graeme Marshall 2015
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
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Eileen M. Jeffress 2018
Elaine Haxton (1909-1999), painter, graphic artist and theatre designer, grew up in Sydney.
1 portrait in the collection
Gift of Chris Nielsen 2016
Sydney-born Richard Walsh (b. 1941) is an Australian publisher, journalist, broadcaster, editor, lecturer and company director.
1 portrait in the collection
Amy Christine Rivett (1891–1962), doctor, contributed greatly to medicine and women's health.
1 portrait in the collection
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
Gift of Mrs Lily Kahan 2017
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Merran Samuel (nee Connor) 2004
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program
Accomplished illustrator, painter, writer and diarist, set designer and one of the most distinguished photographers of the twentieth century, Cecil Beaton is renowned for his portraits of well known faces from the worlds of fashion, literature, and film.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Commissioned with funds provided by Karen McLeod Adair and Anthony Adair 1999
Experience the artistic clout of Brook Andrew’s portraits of Marcia Langton AM and Anthony Mundine.
As a tribute to Sir William Dargie's singular contribution to Australian art and cultural institutions, and on the occasion of his birthday, The Australian War Memorial, Parliament House and the National Portrait Gallery will mount exhibitions of his work between May and October
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2012
Sarah Hill introduces the portrait busts of Sir Charles Kingsford Smith and Captain Charles Ulm by Enid Fleming.
Natural light and human proportions – the design by Johnson Pilton Walker
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of BHP Billiton 2003
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program
This exhibition traces the creative output of nearly 50 years by one of Australia's landmark living photographers.
A new commissioned portrait funded by the Gallery’s Foundation will be launched at Murdoch University in Perth tonight, Wednesday 2 September.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 1999
Eva Besen AO (1928–2021), philanthropist and arts benefactor, founded the Besen Family Foundation with her husband Marc Besen AC.
1 portrait in the collection
Marcus (Marc) Besen AC (b. 1923), philanthropist and arts benefactor, founded the Besen Family Foundation with his wife Eva Besen AO.
1 portrait in the collection
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Mr Justice Ian Callinan 1999
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program
This unique exhibition will give an insight into the private lives, pursuits and work of all the Nobel laureates associated with Australia
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2017
Sylvia Bremer (also Breamer) (1897–1943), actor, was born in Double Bay, Sydney, in June 1897 into a British-Australian naval family.
2 portraits in the collection
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2010
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2017
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2017
'I have just been to my dressing case to take a peep at you.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by Graham Smith 2009
During his long and distinguished career Max Dupain took thousands of photographs of people
The artist's diary profiles six decades of Cassab's work, from the early portrait commissions of the 1950s to later paintings that have helped confirm her eminent place in the canon of Australian portraiture.
The Australian of the Year Awards have often provoked controversy about who is selected and whether their achievements are remarkable.
A newly acquired work by Stella Bowen adds to the National Portrait Gallery's growing collection of important Australian self-portraits.
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.
Pushpamala N. was born in 1956 in Bangalore. Her early training was in sculpture, but as her practice progressed she brought an early enthusiasm for narrative figuration into her photographic work.
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.
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.
The National Portrait Gallery, has welcomed the newest portrait commission of Emeritus Professor Derek Denton AC by Evert Ploeg.
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.
James Holloway describes the first portraits you encounter when entering the Scottish National Portrait Gallery.
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.
Dr. Sarah Engledow discovers the amazing life of Ms. Hilda Spong, little remembered star of the stage, who was captured in a portrait by Tom Roberts.
The National Portrait Gallery acquired a beguiling silhouette group portrait by Samuel Metford, an English artist who spent periods of his working life in America.
In his speech launching the new National Portrait Gallery building on 3 December 2008, then Prime Minister Kevin Rudd set the Gallery in a national and historical context.
Bringing eminent scientist Frank Fenner and artist Jude Rae together for the National Portrait Gallery commission was like matchmaking.
Gael Newton delves into the life and art of renowned Australian photographer, Max Dupain.
As the National Portrait Gallery opens its exhibition of portrait and figurative work by veteran photographer Sam Haskins, the artist reflects on the highlights of his fifty-year career so far.
Sir Sidney Kidman (1857-1935) is inscribed in Australian legend as the ‘Cattle King’.
Bess Norriss Tait created miniature watercolour portraits full of character and life.
Barry York charts the course from childhood request to autographed celebrity portrait anthology.
Dr Sarah Engledow writes about the gift of two striking paintings by the Australian artist Ken Done AM.
Fiona Gruber investigates the work of Australian painter Kristin Headlam.
Christopher Chapman takes a trip through the doors of perception, arriving at the junction of surrealism and psychoanalysis.
Diana O’Neil samples the tartan treats on offer in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery.
Joanna Gilmour dives into the life of Australian swimming legend Annette Kellerman.
Aircraft designer, pilot and entrepreneur, Sir Lawrence Wackett rejoins friends and colleagues on the walls of the National Portrait Gallery.
Sarah Engledow writes about Gordon and Marilyn Darling and their support for the National Portrait Gallery throughout its evolution.
The art of Australia’s colonial women painters affords us an invaluable, alternative perspective on the nascent nation-building project.
John Singer Sargent: a painter at the vanguard of contemporary movements in music, literature and theatre.
Angus Trumble reflects on the force of nature that was Helena Rubinstein.
Curator, Penny Grist, reveals how this exhibition came to be
Dr Anne Sanders NPG Curatorial Researcher investigated the lives of the pioneering psychologists whose portraits are featured in Inner Worlds.
