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Jack Mundey AO
Biography
Jack Mundey AO (1929–2020), union activist, is credited with preventing the demolition of much of inner Sydney’s built heritage in the 1970s and 1980s.
3 portraits in the collection
Jack Charles
Biography
Jack Charles (1943–2022) was a revered Wiradjuri, Boon Warrung, Dja Dja Wurrung, Woiwurrung and Yorta Yorta Elder, activist, actor, musician and artist.
1 portrait in the collection
Jack Purtell
Biography
Jack Purtell (1921-2017), jockey, had his first ride at the age of fifteen.
1 portrait in the collection
Sir Jack Brabham OBE
Biography
Sir Jack Brabham OBE (1926-2014), racing car driver, was born in Hurstville, NSW, and studied mechanical engineering before working as a mechanic for the RAAF during WW2.
2 portraits in the collection
Jack Thompson AM
Biography
Jack Thompson AM (b. 1940) is an actor and the face of the 1970s Australian film renaissance.
3 portraits in the collection
Rose Lindsay
Biography
Rose Lindsay (née Soady, 1885-1978), artist's model, posed for Sydney Long, Antonio Dattilo Rubbo and Fred Leist before she met Norman Lindsay in 1902.
5 portraits in the collection
Lionel Lindsay
Biography
Sir Lionel Lindsay (1874-1961), graphic artist, was the brother of Norman, Percy, Daryl and Ruby Lindsay and shared with his siblings an early obsession with drawing and printmaking.
5 portraits in the collection
Percy Lindsay
Biography
Percy Lindsay (1870-1952), artist, was the eldest child of Robert and Jane Lindsay, born, as were his nine siblings, in Creswick, Victoria.
4 portraits in the collection
Norman Lindsay
Biography
Norman Lindsay (1879-1969), artist, cartoonist, and writer, came from a family that produced five artists.
14 portraits in the collection
Ruby Lindsay
Biography
Ruby Lindsay (1885-1919), artist and illustrator, left home at 16 and went to Melbourne where she studied at the National Gallery School.
3 portraits in the collection
John Thomas "Jack" Lang
Biography
John Thomas Lang (1876–1975) served two terms as premier of New South Wales in the 1920s and 1930s.
5 portraits in the collection
Adam Lindsay Gordon
Biography
Adam Lindsay Gordon (1833-1870) was a poet and horseman. Well-educated, from a relatively well-to-do family, he learned to ride as a boy in England and secured a position in the South Australian Mounted Police in 1852.
1 portrait in the collection
Joseph Croft
Biography
Joseph Croft (c. 1926–1996), Aboriginal activist, was a Gurindji/Mudpurra man from the Northern Territory and member of the Stolen Generations.
1 portrait in the collection
Will Dyson
Biography
Will (William Henry) Dyson, cartoonist, caricaturist, writer and draughtsman, was born in Alfredtown, near Ballarat, and studied for a short time in Melbourne, where he worked closely with his older brother Ambrose.
11 portraits in the collection
Leon Gellert
Biography
Leon Gellert (1892-1977), poet and journalist, was a physical education teacher at Hindmarsh Public School in his native Adelaide in 1914.
1 portrait in the collection
Garry McDonald AO
Biography
Norman Gunston (1973-1993) was a fictional television character, conceived by writer Wendy Skelcher and developed by actor Garry McDonald.
1 portrait in the collection