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A Wool Merchant

Mr Richard Goldsbrough

Richard Goldsbrough (1821–1886) was a butcher’s son from Shipley, Yorkshire, who became a leading Australian woolbroker.

1 portrait in the collection

Richard Tognetti #1510

Richard Tognetti AO

Richard Tognetti AO (b. 1965), violinist, conductor and composer, trained with William Primrose in Wollongong and Alice Waten in Sydney before undertaking further studies with Igor Ozim in Switzerland.

2 portraits in the collection

Richard Fitzgerald

Richard Fitzgerald

Richard Fitzgerald (1772-1840), convict, public servant and settler, spent four years of his seven-year sentence imprisoned (probably on a floating 'hulk') at Portsmouth before arriving in Sydney in 1791, along with his private assets.

1 portrait in the collection

Richard Roxburgh

Richard Roxburgh

Richard Roxburgh (b. 1962), actor, completed an economics degree at the Australian National University before gaining a place at NIDA on his second attempt.

2 portraits in the collection

Richard Divall OBE in the church mantle of the Order of Malta

Richard Divall AO OBE

Frà Professor Richard Divall AO OBE (1945–2017), conductor, composer and scholar, grew up in Manly and was educated at Manly Boys’ High School.

1 portrait in the collection

Herb and Flan

Richard Flanagan

Richard Flanagan (b. 1961) was born in Longford in northern Tasmania, the second youngest of the six children of Archie Flanagan, a primary school principal, and his wife Helen.

1 portrait in the collection

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Richard Humphry, 1997

Portrait, oil on canvas

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the Australian Securities Exchange 2012
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program

Gav & Ray, 2007 by Richard Walker

Gav & Ray, 2007

by Richard Walker

The way out is the way through, 2010 by Richard Martin

The way out is the way through, 2010

by Richard Martin

Self portrait with pin-up

Richard Larter

In their own words

In their own words

Recorded 1965

The Singer, 2012 by Richard Payne

The Singer, 2012

by Richard Payne

Morse coder, 2012
by Richard Goodwin

Morse coder, 2012

by Richard Goodwin

Dame Elisabeth Murdoch, 2009 by Richard Kendall

Dame Elisabeth Murdoch, 2009

by Richard Kendall

Self portrait with pin-up

Self portrait with pin-up

Self portrait with pin-up

Self portrait with pin-up, 1965

Portrait, synthetic polymer paint and alkyd resin on composition board

Purchased with funds provided by the Basil Bressler Bequest 2002

Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose, 1885-86 by
John Singer Sargent

A feast of friends

Magazine article by Richard Ormond, 2015

John Singer Sargent: a painter at the vanguard of contemporary movements in music, literature and theatre.

First High Court of Australia

Richard Edward O'Connor

Richard Edward O'Connor (1851-1912), barrister and judge, was raised and educated in Sydney.

1 portrait in the collection

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