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Gary Foley
Biography
Gary Foley (b. 1950) is a Gumbainggir activist, actor, historian, curator and academic.
2 portraits in the collection
Fiona Foley
Biography
Fiona Foley (b.1964), Badtjala artist, activist, curator and writer, grew up on Fraser Island and in nearby Hervey Bay before moving south to study art at the East Sydney Technical College.
2 portraits in the collection
Jean Goldberg
Biography
Jean Nethercote (now Goldberg) first met Ola Cohn when she took a life class in Cohn's studio in the mid-50s.
1 portrait in the collection
Jean Bellette
Biography
Jean Bellette (1908-1991), painter, studied in her native Hobart before moving to Sydney to train with Julian Ashton.
1 portrait in the collection
Jean Shepeard
Biography
Jean Shepeard was an actress and artist who trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.
1 portrait in the collection
Jean Isherwood OAM
Biography
Jean Isherwood OAM (1911–2006), artist, was born in Marrickville and won a scholarship to the National Art School at East Sydney Technical College at the age of fourteen.
1 portrait in the collection
Jean Appleton
Biography
Jean Appleton (1911–2003), painter and art teacher, studied at the East Sydney Technical College, completing a diploma in drawing and illustration in 1932.
5 portraits in the collection
Jean Baptiste Guth
Biography
French artist Jean Baptiste Guth was a regular contributor of portraits to Vanity Fair during the late 1880s and throughout the 1890s.
1 portrait in the collection
Jean Francois Rigaud
Biography
Jean François Rigaud, French/ Italian artist, trained in Italy, where he became a member of the Bologna Academy in 1766.
1 portrait in the collection
Ferdinand Jean Joubert
Biography
Ferdinand Jean Joubert was a photographer and engraver. Born in Paris, Joubert studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and began working as an engraver around 1830.
1 portrait in the collection
Dame Jean MacNamara DBE
Biography
Dame Jean Macnamara DBE (1899–1968), medical doctor and scientist, was involved in crucial research into poliomyelitis during the 1920s and 1930s.
1 portrait in the collection
Hon. Linda Jean Burney
Biography
The Hon. Linda Jean Burney MP (b. 1957), a Wiradjuri woman, is the first First Nations person elected to the New South Wales parliament, and the first First Nations woman to serve in the federal House of Representatives.
2 portraits in the collection
Jean-François de Galaup La Perouse
Biography
Jean-François de Galaup la Pérouse, Comte de la Pérouse (1741-1788), navigator, joined the French navy as a boy, rising to the rank of captain and serving with distinction and humanity in campaigns against the English in Hudson Bay in 1782.
4 portraits in the collection
Frederick Lowry
Biography
Fred Lowry (1836-1863) was a stockman before he turned to cattle and horse duffing.
1 portrait in the collection
HJ Wedge
Biography
HJ Wedge (1957–2012), Wiradjuri artist, was born at Erambie mission near Cowra.
1 portrait in the collection
Djon Mundine OAM
Biography
Djon Mundine OAM (b. 1951), a Bundjalung man, is a curator, writer, artist and activist.
1 portrait in the collection