Robert McFarlane was born in Glenelg, South Australia. After leaving school he began work in a small advertising agency, where his growing interest in photography was encouraged.
28 portraits in the collection
Rt Hon. Sir Robert Gordon Menzies KT AK CH PC QC (1894-1978) was Prime Minister of Australia for a record total of 19 years: from 1939 to 1941 and 1949 to 1966.
9 portraits in the collection
Robert Dessaix (b. 1944) is a Hobart–based writer, translator and literary critic.
2 portraits in the collection
Robert Drewe (b. 1943), author, grew up in Perth, where he worked as a junior reporter with the West Australian from 1961 to 1964.
1 portrait in the collection
Robert Adamson (b. 1943), poet, divided his childhood between Neutral Bay and the Hawkesbury River, where his grandfather lived.
2 portraits in the collection
Robert Hughes AO (1938-2012) was the senior art critic for Time magazine and one of Australia’s famous expatriates of the 1960s.
5 portraits in the collection
Dr Robert (Bob) Edwards AO (b. 1930) has made a remarkable contribution to the cultural sector in Australia.
1 portrait in the collection
![A County Court Judge "Sober as a Judge" [Judge Pohlman] from the series "Masks and Faces", 1874 Tom Durkin, The Weekly Times](/files/e/b/5/7/i9669-slq.jpg "A County Court Judge \"Sober as a Judge\" [Judge Pohlman] from the series \"Masks and Faces\", 1874 Tom Durkin, The Weekly Times")
Robert Williams Pohlman (1811–1877), judge, arrived in Melbourne in 1840 and with his brother acquired a sheep station, Darlington (later Glenhope), near Kyneton.
1 portrait in the collection
Robert Manne (b. 1947), academic and writer, grew up in Melbourne, the child of European Jewish refugees.
1 portrait in the collection
Robert Campbell Junior, urban Aboriginal artist, was a Ngaku/Dhunghutti man who grew up in Kempsey, New South Wales.
1 portrait in the collection
Robert Oatley AO (1928–2016), businessman, was one of Australia’s most successful wine industry figures.
Robert Brown (1773–1858) is considered ‘the father of Australian botany’.
2 portraits in the collection
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