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Godfrey Miller
Biography
Godfrey Miller (1893-1964) arrived in Australia from his native New Zealand in 1919.
1 portrait in the collection
Lewis Miller
Biography
Lewis Miller (b. 1959), artist, won the Archibald Prize in 1998 with one of his many portraits of fellow artist Allan Mitelman, and has been a finalist seventeen times.
4 portraits in the collection
Alexander Miller
Biography
Alex Miller (b. 1936), one of Australia’s most decorated and popular authors, migrated from England to Australia on his own as a sixteen-year-old.
3 portraits in the collection
Jacques Miller AC
Biography
Jacques Miller AC (b. 1931), immunologist, spent his early childhood in Shanghai and Lausanne before coming to Sydney with his parents at the age of ten.
2 portraits in the collection
Keith Miller
Biography
Keith Miller MBE (1919-2004) was Australia's greatest cricketing all-rounder.
1 portrait in the collection
Adelaide of Saxe-Coburg Meiningen
Biography
Adelaide of Saxe-Coburg Meiningen (1792–1849) was the consort of King William IV of England.
1 portrait in the collection
Samuel Shelley
Biography
Samuel Shelley entered the Royal Academy Schools as a seventeen year-old in 1774 and exhibited at the Academy regularly from this time until 1804.
2 portraits in the collection
Sir William Beechey
Biography
Sir William Beechey, portrait painter and pupil of Johann Zoffany, was greatly influenced by Sir Joshua Reynolds.
1 portrait in the collection
Sir George Hayter
Biography
Sir George Hayter (1792-1871), English portrait and historical painter, studied briefly at the Royal Academy Schools as a teenager, running away to sea before returning to assist his father, an artist who tutored Princess Charlotte.
1 portrait in the collection
Nick Enright AM
Biography
Nick Enright (1950-2003), playwright and screenwriter, attended Sydney University and the New York University School of the Arts before establishing himself as a dramatist with plays such as Summer Rain and Mongrels.
2 portraits in the collection
Dean Beletich
Biography
Dean Beletich (b. 1968), artist and photographer, studied at Newcastle Art School, the National Art School Sydney and the University of Newcastle from 1987 to 1991.
1 portrait in the collection
Gillian Armstrong AM
Biography
Gillian Armstrong (b. 1950) studied theatre and film-making at Swinburne Technical College and was a star student at the newly-established Australian Film and Television School in the early 70s.
2 portraits in the collection
Lisa Tomasetti
Biography
Lisa Tomasetti (b. 1963) is a Sydney-based photographer and visual artist.
1 portrait in the collection
Bart Willoughby
Biography
Bart Willoughby (b. 1960) is a Pitjantjantjara and Mirning singer/songwriter who is one of the Stolen Generations.
2 portraits in the collection
Mel Gibson AO
Biography
Mel Gibson (b. 1956), actor, was born in New York state, the sixth of eleven children of a railroad brakeman and an Australian opera singer.
1 portrait in the collection
Ernest Giles
Biography
Ernest Giles (1835-1897), explorer, came to Australia at the age of fifteen, settling in Adelaide.
1 portrait in the collection