Narelle Autio (b. 1969) went to art school in South Australia intending to become a painter, but ‘somehow ended up’ with a camera.
1 portrait in the collection
Falk Studios was established by Melbourne-born photographer H. Walter Barnett in George Street, Sydney in 1885.
5 portraits in the collection
Elliott & Fry, a photography studio and photographic film manufacturer, was founded in 1863 at 55-56 Baker Street, London by Joseph John Elliott and Clarence Edmund Fry.
2 portraits in the collection
James Buller (1812-1884), Wesleyan missionary, emigrated to Australia in 1835 from Helston, Cornwall, hoping to join a mission in the South Seas.
1 portrait in the collection
Kerrie Lester (1953–2016) became well-known as a portraitist for her playful, textured, highly coloured works that appeared regularly in the Archibald and Portia Geach exhibitions of the late 1980s and the 1990s.
6 portraits in the collection
Sir Gustav Nossal AC CBE (b. 1931) is an immunologist and medical scientist.
4 portraits in the collection
Sir Colin Syme AK (1903-1986) was chairman of BHP from 1952 to1971. Born in Perth, he attended Scotch College in Claremont, the universities of Perth and Melbourne and the University of New South Wales before becoming a solicitor in the Melbourne firm of Hedderwick, Fookes and Alston in 1923.
1 portrait in the collection
Melbourne Spurr, born in Decorah, Iowa, arrived in Hollywood around 1917.
2 portraits in the collection
David Davies began studying art at the School of Mines and Industries in his birthplace, Ballarat.
1 portrait in the collection
Witzel Studios was founded in Los Angeles by photographer Albert Walter Witzel (1879–1929) in 1909 and within a few years had become one of the city’s foremost portrait studios.
1 portrait in the collection
Sir James McNeill CBE (1916-1987) was chairman of BHP from 1977 to 1984.
1 portrait in the collection
George Baird Shaw (1812-1883), painter and printmaker, arrived in Australia in 1856.
2 portraits in the collection
Gary Heery, photographer, was born in Sydney, where he studied sociology and psychology at the University of New South Wales.
1 portrait in the collection
Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet OM AK KBE (1899–1985), medical scientist, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1960 for his work with Sir Peter Medawar on acquired immunological tolerance, paving the way for successful human organ transplants.
5 portraits in the collection
Robin Gerard Penleigh Boyd (1919-1971), was born and educated in Melbourne, and a member of the famous Australian family of artists and writers.
1 portrait in the collection
Jacques Miller AC (b. 1931), immunologist, spent his early childhood in Shanghai and Lausanne before coming to Sydney with his parents at the age of ten.
2 portraits in the collection
