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Dr Phillip Law

Dr Phillip Law

Dr Phillip Law

Dr Phillip Law, 1974

Portrait, oil on canvas

Gift of Dr Phillip Law 2000. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

Lleyton Hewitt

Lleyton Hewitt

Lleyton Hewitt

Lleyton Hewitt, 1998

Portrait, type C photograph on paper

Gift of the artist 2004

Colin Friels

Colin Friels

Colin Friels (b. 1952) arrived in Australia as an adolescent with his Scottish parents, both blue-collar workers.

1 portrait in the collection

Mel Gibson

Mel Gibson AO

Mel Gibson (b. 1956), actor, was born in New York state, the sixth of eleven children of a railroad brakeman and an Australian opera singer.

1 portrait in the collection

Maurice Ashkanasy CMG QC

Maurice Ashkanasy CMG QC

Maurice Ashkanasy CMG QC

Maurice Ashkanasy CMG QC, 1963

Portrait, cast bronze

Gift of Dr Vivianne de Vahl Davis and Professor Neal Ashkanasy 2000. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

Frances Alda

Frances Alda

Frances Alda

Frances Alda, 1912

Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper

Purchased 2007

Frances Alda

Frances Alda

Frances Alda

Frances Alda, 1918

Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Roger Neill 2006

Frances Alda

Frances Alda

Frances Alda (1879–1952) was one of the world's greatest sopranos. Born Fanny Jane Davis in Christchurch, New Zealand, which claims her as a prominent expatriate, she was raised in Melbourne, where she began singing operetta in 1897.

2 portraits in the collection

Margaret Fink

Margaret Fink

Margaret Fink

Margaret Fink, 1975

Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2003
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program

Lleyton Hewitt

Lleyton Hewitt AM

At twenty years old, Lleyton Hewitt AM (b. 1981) was the youngest male tennis player ever to be ranked world number one.

1 portrait in the collection

Margaret Fink

Margaret Fink

Margaret Fink

Margaret Fink, 1989

Portrait, oil and hand-stitching with diamantes on canvas

Gift of the artist 1999. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

Colin Friels

Colin Friels

Colin Friels

Colin Friels, n.d.

Stuart Campbell

Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the Estate of Stuart Campbell 2012

Unheroic Materialism: little harmless fragments of memory and association: a portrait of Angus Trumble, 2019 Evert Ploeg

The last word

Magazine article by Dr David Hansen, 2022

David Hansen’s tribute to his close friend, prince of words and former National Portrait Gallery director, the late Angus Trumble.

Margaret Fink

Margaret Fink AO

Margaret Fink AO (b. 1933), film producer, was a key figure in the renaissance of Australian cinema in the 1970s.

2 portraits in the collection

Linde Ivimey video: 6 minutes

Linde Ivimey

Contributing artists

Born: 1965, Sydney
Works: Sydney

Eileen Dunne in The Hospital for Sick Children, 1940
by Cecil Beaton

Cecil Beaton

Previous exhibition, 2005

Accomplished illustrator, painter, writer and diarist, set designer and one of the most distinguished photographers of the twentieth century, Cecil Beaton is renowned for his portraits of well known faces from the worlds of fashion, literature, and film.

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