Horace Keats (1895-1945) came to Australia from his native England in 1915 as accompanist to vaudeville performer Nella Webb.
1 portrait in the collection
George Spartels (b. 1954), actor, composer, musician and presenter, was a host on the ABC television children’s program Play School from 1985 to 1999.
1 portrait in the collection
Brian Dunlop studied at East Sydney Technical College and won the Le Gay Brereton Prize for Drawing while still a student.
7 portraits in the collection
Will Huxley grew up in the suburbs of Perth, Western Australia, and Garrett Huxley was raised on the Gold Coast, Queensland.
3 portraits in the collection
Ian Fairweather (1891-1974), painter, grew up in Scotland, where he trained as an army officer.
1 portrait in the collection
Geoff Dyer (1947-2020) was renowned landscape and portrait painter whose practice depicted Tasmania and its people.
1 portrait in the collection
Ben Mendelsohn (b. 1969), actor, spent much of his early childhood abroad as his father, a leading medical researcher, worked in Europe and the USA.
2 portraits in the collection
Raymond Gosford Watt (1889-1967), lecturer, broadcaster and public relations consultant, was a foundation member of the New South Wales League of Nations Union (LNU).
1 portrait in the collection
Danila Vassilieff, born in Russia, arrived in Australia in the early 1920s having served in a Cossack cavalry regiment, been captured by Communist forces and escaped via Persia and India to China.
1 portrait in the collection
Graham Kennedy AO (1934-2005), entertainer, began his career in Melbourne radio in 1949.
2 portraits in the collection
