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David Low

David Low

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 Low

David Low

David Low

David Low, 1917

Rudolph Buchner

Portrait, gelatin silver photograph, sepia toned on cardboard

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2012

Shen Jiawei, 2016 by Mark Mohell

Shen Jiawei

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Shen Jiawei was born in China. During the Cultural Revolution he laboured in the Great Northern Wilderness, but even as he worked there, he gained recognition as an artist.

Dame Edna Everage

Bare

Degrees of undress

Previous exhibition, 2015

Bare: Degrees of undress celebrates the candid, contrived, natural, sexy, ironic, beautiful, and fascinating in Australian portraiture that shows a bit of skin.

William Lanne

William Lanne

William Lanne (1834-1869), also known as King Billy or William Laney, is said to have been Truganini's third partner.

3 portraits in the collection

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Herbert Benjamin George Larkin CBE

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

Sir Lloyd Dumas

Sir Lloyd Dumas

Sir Lloyd Dumas (1891-1973), journalist, began his career as a cadet for the Adelaide Advertiser.

1 portrait in the collection

Study of Archbishop Daniel Mannix

Archbishop Daniel Mannix

Archbishop Daniel Mannix (1864-1963) was Catholic Archbishop of Melbourne from 1917 to 1963.

1 portrait in the collection

The first Australian first-class cricket team to tour England and North America

First Australian first-class cricket team

The ‘first Australian first-class cricket team to tour England and North America’ was in fact the second Australian cricket side to contest matches internationally (a team of Indigenous players having done so in 1868), but it is considered the first official national representative team to tour overseas.

1 portrait in the collection

The first Australian first-class cricket team to tour England and North America

The first Australian first-class cricket team to tour England and North America

The first Australian first-class cricket team to tour England and North America

The first Australian first-class cricket team to tour England and North America, 1878

Portrait, albumen photograph on carte de visite

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2013

Kylie Kwong

Kylie Kwong AM

Kylie Kwong was born into a fourth generation Australian Chinese family in Sydney.

1 portrait in the collection

Gough Whitlam

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Portrait of Mr W.M. Hughes, Prime Minister of Australia

Portrait of Mr W.M. Hughes, Prime Minister of Australia

Portrait of Mr W.M. Hughes, Prime Minister of Australia

Portrait of Mr W.M. Hughes, Prime Minister of Australia, 1916

J H Barratt & Co Ltd, Stoke-on-Trent

Portrait, photographic image on glazed ceramic tile

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Ian Ross 2001

Sir Lloyd Dumas

Sir Lloyd Dumas

Sir Lloyd Dumas

Sir Lloyd Dumas, 1955

Portrait, oil on masonite

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the Dumas Family 1999

The Billy Book

William Morris Hughes

William Morris Hughes (1862-1952) was Labor and National Party Prime Minister of Australia from 1915 to 1923.

5 portraits in the collection

Kylie Kwong

Kylie Kwong

Kylie Kwong

Kylie Kwong, 2003

Simon Griffiths

Portrait, type C photograph on paper

Purchased 2005

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