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Purchased 2016
Ethel Turner (1870-1958), writer, came to Australia with her twice-widowed mother at the age of nine.
1 portrait in the collection
Gift of the artist 2019 acknowledging Herbert Smith Freehills for supporting the creation of the portrait
Herbert 'Bert' Flugelman, sculptor, painter and lecturer, came to Australia from his native Vienna in 1938, aged fifteen.
1 portrait in the collection
Gift of the artist 2009. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Charles Haddon Chambers (1860-1921), playwright and dramatist, grew up in Sydney.
1 portrait in the collection
The Illustrated London News was the world's first illustrated weekly newspaper.
3 portraits in the collection
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2010
Gilbert Eric Douglas (1902–1970), pilot and air force officer, took part in Sir Douglas Mawson’s British, Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (BANZARE), which took the form of two ocean voyages conducted over the southern summers of 1929–30 and 1930–31.
1 portrait in the collection
Purchased 2005
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2005
Thomas Stange Heiss Oscar Asche (1871–1936), actor, director and producer, was one of Australia’s most successful theatre exports.
2 portraits in the collection
Gift of Sally Douglas 2009
This exhibition is the first comprehensive survey of self-portraits in Australia, from the colonial period to the present
Jude Rae’s high reputation rests on her austere, cerebral still lifes of gas canisters, electric jugs and jars, which she groups and rearranges for paintings that catch their difficult curves and reflections. Her self-portrait’s likewise thoughtfully composed.
The National Portrait Gallery acquired the self-portrait by Grace Cossington Smith in 2003.