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Ivy Shore
Biography
Ivy Shore (1915–1999), painter, was born in Melbourne, daughter of a South Australian suffragette, Elka, and engineer John Williams.
2 portraits in the collection
Arnold Shore
Biography
Arnold Shore, a lifelong inhabitant of Melbourne, was apprenticed to a stained glass and leadlight company called Brooks, Robinson soon after leaving school at the age of twelve.
2 portraits in the collection
Rt. Hon. Malcolm Fraser AC CH
Biography
The Rt. Hon John Malcolm Fraser AC CH PC (1930-2015) was Prime Minister of Australia from 1975 to 1983.
5 portraits in the collection
Malcolm Williamson AO CBE
Biography
Malcolm Benjamin Graham Christopher Williamson AO CBE (1931–2003), composer, was born in Sydney, and was educated at Barker College, Hornsby, and then at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, where he studied piano and French horn as well as composition under Sir Eugene Goossens.
1 portrait in the collection
Malcolm J. McCusker AC CVO KC
Biography
Barrister and philanthropist Malcolm James McCusker AC CVO KC was born in Subiaco, Western Australia in 1938.
1 portrait in the collection
James Semple Lisle
Biography
Major James Semple Lisle (1759-1799) was a confidence trickster. Convicted of theft, he was sentenced to transportation and embarked on the Lady Shore for Botany Bay in 1797.
1 portrait in the collection
Angus Young
Biography
Angus Young (b. 1955), guitarist and songwriter, was a founding member of Australia's most successful ever band, AC/DC.
3 portraits in the collection
Robert Hughes AO
Biography
Robert Hughes AO (1938-2012) was the senior art critic for Time magazine and one of Australia’s famous expatriates of the 1960s.
6 portraits in the collection
Sir John Gorton GCMG AC CH
Biography
The Rt Hon Sir John Gorton GCMG AC CH (1911–2002) was the nineteenth prime minister of Australia and the only senator yet to have served in the office.
5 portraits in the collection
Miriam Hyde AO OBE
Biography
Miriam Hyde AO OBE (1913-2005), composer, recitalist, teacher, examiner, poet, lecturer and writer of numerous articles for music journals, studied first with her mother and then with William Silver at the Elder Conservatorium in Adelaide.
1 portrait in the collection
George Bell OBE
Biography
George Bell studied in Melbourne and Paris, and was elected a member of the Modern Society of Portrait Painters, London, in 1908.
1 portrait in the collection
Sir Billy Snedden KCMG
Biography
Sir Billy Snedden KCMG QC (1926-1987), politician, was elected as a federal member in 1955.
1 portrait in the collection
Hon. Gough Whitlam AC QC
Biography
Edward Gough Whitlam AC QC (1916-2014) was prime minister from the end of 1972 to the end of 1975.
12 portraits in the collection
Alfred Barry
Biography
Alfred Barry (1826-1910), Anglican bishop of Sydney and primate of the Church of England in Australia and Tasmania, was educated at King’s College, London and at Cambridge.
2 portraits in the collection
Dr Edward MacMahon CBE
Biography
Edward MacMahon CBE (1904–1987), surgeon, studied medicine at the University of Sydney and completed his residency at the Sydney Hospital.
1 portrait in the collection
Colleen McCullough
Biography
The novelist Colleen McCullough (1937–2015) was born in Wellington, New South Wales.
1 portrait in the collection