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Albert Namatjira
Biography
Arrernte artist Albert Namatjira (1902–1959) is one of Australia's most celebrated and important artists.
7 portraits in the collection
Rubina Namatjira
Biography
Rubina (Ilkalita) Namatjira (1903–1974) was a Kukatja woman and the wife of famous Western Arrernte artist Albert Namatjira.
1 portrait in the collection
Alf Vincent
Biography
Alfred Vincent began working for the Bulletin in 1896, taking over from the renowned Phil May, his idol, with whom he was often - inevitably - unfavourably compared.
1 portrait in the collection
Vincent Lingiari AM
Biography
Vincent Lingiari AM (1919–1988) was an Elder of the Gurindji people of the Northern Territory.
1 portrait in the collection
Vincent Fantauzzo
Biography
Vincent Fantauzzo (b. 1977), award-winning portrait artist, was born in England and grew up in Melbourne's northern suburbs.
2 portraits in the collection
Sir Vincent Charles Fairfax CMG
Biography
Sir Vincent Charles Fairfax CMG (1909-1993), pastoralist, was the son of JHF Fairfax.
1 portrait in the collection
Rex Battarbee
Biography
Rex Battarbee OBE (1893-1973), art teacher, had no formal training in art before he won the Melbourne Centenary Prize for Watercolour in 1934.
1 portrait in the collection
Wenten Rubuntja AM
Biography
Wenten Rubuntja AM (1923–2005) was an Arrernte law man, committee and board member, artist, historian, storyteller and intermediary.
2 portraits in the collection
Alex Wodak AM
Biography
Alex Wodak, doctor, trained at St. Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne, then worked as a medical registrar in several London teaching hospitals before beginning research on alcoholic liver disease.
1 portrait in the collection
Judith Pungarta Inkamala
Biography
Judith Pungarta Inkamala (b. 1947), senior potter, is an Arrernte woman who was born in Hermannsburg, 130 km west of Alice Springs.
3 portraits in the collection
Coral Browne
Biography
Coral Browne (1913-1991) was an Australian actress who left for England in 1934.
1 portrait in the collection
Lady Florence Packer
Biography
Lady Florence Packer (1915-2012) was born in Paris to Edmond Porges, a major in the British Army, and his Russian wife Marie-Mathilde Brodsky.
1 portrait 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
Evert Ploeg
Biography
Evert Ploeg began his career as a commercial illustrator in the mid-1980s.
7 portraits in the collection
Adam Knott
Biography
Adam Knott (b. 1966) began taking photographs for local newspapers as a schoolboy in St George, South Sydney.
7 portraits in the collection
Julian Smith
Biography
Julian Smith, surgeon and photographer, came to Australia with his family from England at the age of three.
2 portraits in the collection