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Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2013
Purchased with funds provided by the Basil Bressler Bequest 2001
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by Graham Smith 2009
Reg Livermore AO (b. 1938), stage and television entertainer, began performing as a teenager, hiring local venues to mount his own pantomimes.
2 portraits in the collection
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
Gift of Richard Elliott 2016. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Gift of Merran Samuel (nee Connor) 2004. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by James Bain AM and Janette Bain 2010
Sir William Northam CBE (1905-1988), yachtsman, won the gold medal in the 5.5 m class event at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics.
1 portrait in the collection
The story behind the acquisition of the portrait of Danish architect Jørn Utzon.
Bruce Gyngell (1929–2000) presided over the first commercial television transmission in Australia, launching the medium here with the now famous phrase: 'Good evening, and welcome to television'.
1 portrait in the collection
Dame Nancy Buttfield DBE (1912–2005) was the first South Australian woman member of Federal Parliament.
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
Pat Mackie (1914–2009), union leader, led the Mount Isa strike of 1964–65 that polarised the town and almost bankrupted Mount Isa Mining.
1 portrait in the collection
Gift of Coles Myer Ltd 2002. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Purchased 2015