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Bruce Pascoe, 2008
by Kim Batterham
Image
Bruce Pascoe, 2012
by Ivan Gaal
Image
Farmer, fisher, scholar and scribe, 2019
Andrew Baker
Image
John Pascoe Fawkner
Biography
John Pascoe Fawkner (1792-1869), sometimes called the 'Founder of Melbourne', was a pioneer and adventurer.
2 portraits in the collection
John Pascoe Fawkner, c. 1867
Batchelder & Company Photo
Portrait, albumen photograph on carte de visite
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2008
Opening of the First Legislative Council of Victoria by Governor Charles Joseph LaTrobe at St Patrick's Hall, Bourke Street West, Melbourne November 13th 1851, 1883
John Noone after William Strutt
Portrait, photolithograph on paper
Purchased 2013
Bruce Armstrong
Biography
Bruce Armstrong (1957-2024) was a sculptor, painter, printer and charcoal artist.
2 portraits in the collection
Bruce Dawe
Biography
Bruce Dawe AO (1930-2020), poet and teacher, was born in Fitzroy and worked as a labourer, clerk, sawmill hand, farmhand and postman before joining the RAAF in 1959.
1 portrait in the collection
Bruce Ruxton AM OBE
Biography
Bruce Ruxton AM OBE (1926-2011) was the outspoken Victorian President of the Returned Services League from 1979.
1 portrait in the collection
Bruce Postle
Biography
Bruce Postle began his photojournalism career at Queensland Country Life and the Brisbane Courier Mail.
6 portraits in the collection
Bruce Weber
Biography
Bruce Weber, born 1946, is an internationally renowned American fashion photographer.
1 portrait in the collection
Bruce Pollard
Biography
Bruce Pollard (b. 1936), gallerist, established the Pinocotheca Gallery in a St Kilda mansion in 1967, and relocated it to an old hat factory in Richmond in 1970.
1 portrait in the collection
Bruce Beresford
Biography
Bruce Beresford (b. 1940), director, made his first film while an undergraduate at the University of Sydney in the early 1960s.
2 portraits in the collection
Bruce Spence
Biography
Bruce Spence (b. 1945), actor, made his film debut in the title role of Tim Burstall's Stork (1971), its title relating neatly, if coincidentally, to his 2.01m frame.
1 portrait in the collection
Bruce Petty
Biography
Bruce Petty (1929-2023), political cartoonist, grew up in Melbourne and as a young man took night classes in art at RMIT.
1 portrait in the collection
Bruce Woodley
Biography
The Seekers, folk music band, formed in 1962 when jazz singer Judith Durham met Athol Guy, who sang and played bass in a folk trio with Bruce Woodley and Keith Potger.
3 portraits in the collection