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Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2015
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the family of FW Macpherson 2010
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by L Gordon Darling AC CMG 2014
Sarah Tuckfield neé Gilbart (c. 1808–1854), was the daughter of a Cornish farmer.
1 portrait in the collection
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2016
Keep it in the family
This issue features Jenny Sages, Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud, Brook Andrew's portrait of Marcia Langton, Nicholas Harding, Lola Montez, Mick Molloy and more.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2002
Francis Gardiner (Christie) (1830-1903?), bushranger, came to New South Wales with his family as a child.
1 portrait in the collection
Francis Edward (Frank) Wootton (1893-1940), jockey, was born into the family of a Sydney horse trainer who is said to have been so determined that his sons would become jockeys that he denied them adequate meals.
1 portrait in the collection
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.
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
From Brandt's early work that documents fixed social contrasts of pre-World War II life in Britain to his later experimentation with a surreal style, this exhibition spans 50 years of Brandt's far reaching career in an extensive assemblage of 155 vintage gelatin silver prints from the Bill Brandt Archive in London.
Lauren Dalla examines the life of Australian painter Roy de Maistre and his portrait by Jean Shepeard.
Reginald Gray is a professional portraitist living in Paris. Born in Dublin, he studied at the National College of Art, became a designer for the Pike and Gate Theatres in Dublin and the Lyric Theatre in London, and held his first one-man exhibition at the Abbott and Holder Gallery in London in 1960.
1 portrait in the collection
Laura Praeger (née Blundell, c. 1859–?) was born in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, and was about twelve years old when her father brought his family to Australia, settling in Queensland.
1 portrait in the collection