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Douglas Carnegie
Biography
Douglas Carnegie, scion of a family whose fortune derived from a piano manufacturing company.
1 portrait in the collection
Douglas Thompson
Biography
Douglas Thompson (1932-2012) was born in Stanthorpe, QLD and served in the RAAF as a photographer and photography teacher between 1950 and 1956.
5 portraits in the collection
Douglas Dundas
Biography
Douglas Dundas (1900-1981), painter, trained at the Sydney Art School with Julian Ashton.
2 portraits in the collection
Douglas Kirkland
Biography
Douglas Kirkland, photographer, was born in Canada and started his career on small newspapers there.
1 portrait in the collection
Douglas Annand
Biography
Douglas Annand (1903–1976), graphic designer and artist, moved to Sydney from Brisbane in 1930.
2 portraits in the collection
Sir Douglas Mawson Kt OBE FRS
Biography
Sir Douglas Mawson Kt OBE FRS (1882-1958) is considered one of the twentieth century's most eminent explorers.
3 portraits in the collection
Gilbert Eric Douglas
Biography
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
Douglas Frew Waterhouse AO CMG
Biography
Douglas Frew Waterhouse AO CMG (1916-2000), entomologist, identified the active ingredients for the insect repellent later marketed as Aerogard.
1 portrait in the collection
Gwendolene Pratt
Biography
Gwen Pratt FRAS (b.1917) is a traditional painter and portraitist in oil, watercolour and pastel.
1 portrait in the collection
A D. Colquhoun
Biography
A D (Archibald Douglas) Colquhoun studied art with his father Alexander, a Glasgow-born painter and critic living in Melbourne, and also at the NGV School and in classes with Max Meldrum.
1 portrait in the collection
Kerry Dundas
Biography
Kerry Dundas, son of artist Douglas Dundas, gained an interest in photography as a student at Sydney Grammar school.
8 portraits in the collection
Samantha Cook
Biography
Samantha Cook is a Nyikina woman from the north-west Kimberley region of Western Australia who is based between Los Angeles and Australia.
1 portrait in the collection
Doug Gimesy
Biography
Douglas Gimesy, conservation and wildlife photographer, graduated in zoology and microbiology before gaining master’s degrees in both bioethics and environment.
1 portrait in the collection
Phillip Law AC AO CBE
Biography
Phillip Law AC AO CBE (1912–2010), scientist and Antarctic explorer, developed an interest in the frozen continent as a boy.
1 portrait in the collection
Klaus Friedeberger
Biography
Klaus Friedeberger (1922-2019) fled Germany for England at the age of sixteen, and the next year found himself on the Dunera bound for internment in Australia.
3 portraits in the collection
Charles Chauvel
Biography
Charles Chauvel (1897-1959), actor and film-maker, worked on the sets of Snowy Baker films as a young man, and followed the great action hero to Hollywood in 1921.
1 portrait in the collection