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Manning Clark

Manning Clark

Manning Clark

Manning Clark, 1985

Portrait, pencil on paper

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2005
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program

Judith Wright

Judith Wright

Judith Wright

Judith Wright, 1988 (printed 2021)

Jacqueline Mitelman

Portrait, inkjet print on paper

Purchased with funds provided by Jillian Broadbent AC 2021

Study for self portrait

Study for self portrait

Study for self portrait

Study for self portrait, c. 1965

Portrait, oil on masonite

Gift of Laurie Curley OAM and Mrs Robyn Curley 2012

George Lambert

George Lambert

George Lambert (1873–1930), artist, was born in St Petersburg and lived in Germany and England before coming to Australia with his family at the age of fourteen.

7 portraits in the collection

Neil Armfield (study)

Neil Armfield (study)

Neil Armfield (study)

Neil Armfield (study), 2010

Portrait, oil on canvas

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Commissioned 2010

Self portrait

William H. Bardwell

William H. Bardwell, photographer, worked at various premises in Ballarat from 1858 until 1895.

1 portrait in the collection

Steven Heathcote

Steven Heathcote

Steven Heathcote

Steven Heathcote, 2007

Portrait, type C photograph on paper

Gift of the artist 2008

Neil Armfield (study)

Neil Armfield (study)

Neil Armfield (study)

Neil Armfield (study), 2010

Portrait, spray paint on paper

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Commissioned 2010

Neil Armfield (study)

Neil Armfield (study)

Neil Armfield (study)

Neil Armfield (study), 2010

Portrait, spray paint on paper

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Commissioned 2010

Peter Skrzynecki

Peter Skrzynecki OAM

Of Polish/Ukrainian descent, Peter Skrzynecki was born in 1945 in Germany and came to Australia with his parents in 1949.

1 portrait in the collection

Sigrid Thornton

Sigrid Thornton AO

Sigrid Thornton AO (b. 1959), actor, has been a household name since her performance in the box-office hit The Man from Snowy River in 1981.

1 portrait in the collection

Margel and Tarquin, Canberra

Margel and Tarquin, Canberra

Margel and Tarquin, Canberra

Margel and Tarquin, Canberra, c. 1945

Portrait, pen and ink, brush and ink and pencil on paper

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by the Ross family in memory of Noel and Enid Eliot 2014

Steve Irwin

Steve Irwin

Steve Irwin (1962-2006) achieved international fame as the 'Crocodile Hunter'.

1 portrait in the collection

Robert Adamson

Robert Adamson (1943–2022), poet and publisher, divided his childhood between Neutral Bay and the Hawkesbury River, where his grandfather lived.

2 portraits in the collection

Judith Wright

Judith Wright

Judith Wright (1915–2000), poet, conservationist and Aboriginal land rights campaigner, was born at Thalgaroch Station, near Armidale, NSW, into a pastoralist family whose origins go back to the first settlement in the Hunter Valley in the 1820s.

3 portraits in the collection

Some lads #1

Some lads #1

Some lads #1

Some lads #1, 1986

Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper

Gift of the artist 1998. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

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