Sir Gerard Smith (1839-1920), governor, was educated at Eton before purchasing a commission as an ensign and lieutenant in the Scots Fusilier Regiment of Foot Guards, with whom he served in Canada in 1863-1864.
1 portrait in the collection
Robin Smith grew up in rural New Zealand, and studied arts and fine arts at Canterbury University before beginning to write and illustrate adventure and natural history stories.
1 portrait in the collection
Heide Smith took up photography as a young girl in Germany in 1948, when her uncle gave her a Zeiss Ikon camera.
3 portraits in the collection
Shirley 'Mum Shirl' Smith AO OBE (1921–1998), humanitarian, was a Wiradjuri woman.
1 portrait in the collection
Recorded 1965
Recorded 1975
Recorded 1962
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the late May Ralph 2019
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 1999
Peter Purves Smith had been a student at Geelong Grammar and a jackaroo before undertaking art studies at the Grosvenor School in London, the George Bell School in Melbourne and the Grande Chaumière in Paris.
2 portraits in the collection
John Firth-Smith (b. 1943) is a Sydney abstract painter. In the early 1960s he won a number of 'young artist' prizes for his paintings of yachts on Sydney Harbour, but by 1968 his work was becoming increasingly abstract, featuring large fields of opaque colour.
2 portraits in the collection
Grace Cossington Smith OBE (1892-1984) was an artist who was at the forefront of the Australian modernist movement.
1 portrait in the collection
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2003
Stephen Murray-Smith (1922-1988), writer and editor, was educated at Geelong Grammar and the University of Melbourne before serving in New Guinea during World War 2.
1 portrait in the collection
John Raphael Smith worked in various drapery establishments and painted miniatures before turning to engraving in London.
1 portrait in the collection
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2012
