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Nelson Mandela, Sydney

Nelson Mandela, Sydney

Nelson Mandela, Sydney

Nelson Mandela, Sydney, 2000

Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2001. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
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.

Nelson Mandela, Sydney

Nelson Mandela, Sydney

Nelson Mandela, Sydney

Nelson Mandela, Sydney, 2000

Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2001. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
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.

Nelson Mandela, Sydney

Nelson Mandela, Sydney

Nelson Mandela, Sydney

Nelson Mandela, Sydney, 2000

Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2001. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
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.

'The crimson thread of kinship' Henry Parkes

'The crimson thread of kinship' Henry Parkes

'The crimson thread of kinship' Henry Parkes

'The crimson thread of kinship' Henry Parkes, c. 1898

Nelson Illingworth

Portrait, painted terracotta

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by the Liangis family 2012

The Federal Leader Edmund Barton

The Federal Leader Edmund Barton

The Federal Leader Edmund Barton

The Federal Leader Edmund Barton, c. 1900

Nelson Illingworth

Portrait, cast plaster, painted

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by the Liangis family 2012

James Horatio Nelson Cassell

James Horatio Nelson Cassell

James Horatio Nelson Cassell

James Horatio Nelson Cassell, late 1840s to early 1850s

an unknown artist

Portrait, daguerreotype

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2018

Sir George Reid

Sir George Reid

Sir George Reid

Sir George Reid, c. 1895

Nelson Illingworth

Portrait, cast plaster, painted

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2016

Captain James Cook from the original in the Naval Gallery, Greenwich Hospital

Captain James Cook from the original in the Naval Gallery, Greenwich Hospital

Captain James Cook from the original in the Naval Gallery, Greenwich Hospital

Captain James Cook from the original in the Naval Gallery, Greenwich Hospital, c. 1837

William Holl, Peter Jackson, London & Paris after Nathaniel Dance

Portrait, engraving on paper

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Ted and Gina Gregg 2012

Portrait of Marjorie Cotton

Portrait of Marjorie Cotton

Portrait of Marjorie Cotton

Portrait of Marjorie Cotton, 1969

Jean Isherwood OAM

Portrait, oil on canvas

Gift of Marjorie Cotton Isherwood 2002

General Ralph Darling, Governor of New South Wales

General Ralph Darling, Governor of New South Wales

General Ralph Darling, Governor of New South Wales

General Ralph Darling, Governor of New South Wales, c. 1840

John R. Jackson after John Linnell

Portrait, mezzotint on paper

Purchased 2018

Nelson Earl - Dance - The Ephemeral Art, Straithfield, 2018 by Kellie Leczinska

Nelson Earl - Dance - The Ephemeral Art, Straithfield, 2018

by Kellie Leczinska

Linda Jackson, with Jenny Kee, Flamingo Park, Sydney, ‘73, 1973 Carol Jerrems

Linda Jackson, with Jenny Kee, Flamingo Park, Sydney, ‘73

Walking in Tall Grass, Marion 2, 2011 by Jan Nelson

Jan Nelson

More about In the flesh artists

Jan Nelson was born in Melbourne. She graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts in 1983 and has been exhibited her work in both solo and group exhibitions throughout Australia since that time including at the MCA, Sydney, National Gallery of Victoria, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane and the Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide.

Horatio Nelson, 1800 Sir William Beechey

Horatio Nelson

Sir William Beechey

Portrait of Brendan Nelson, 2019 Todd Simpson

Portrait of Brendan Nelson, 2019

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Avril Thomas

Avril Thomas (b. 1956), artist, was born in Malaysia and went to boarding school in Scotland and Australia.

2 portraits in the collection

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