© National Portrait Gallery 2025
King Edward Terrace, Parkes
Canberra, ACT 2600, Australia
Phone +61 2 6102 7000
ABN: 54 74 277 1196
Chandler P. Coventry AM
Biography
Chandler Phillip Coventry AM (1924–1999), grazier, gallerist, art collector and arts patron, was born in Armidale, New South Wales to an established New England grazing family.
1 portrait in the collection
Chandler Coventry, 1999
Anne Zahalka
Portrait, type C photograph on paper
Purchased 2021
La Milo as Lady Godiva at Coventry, c. 1907
Rotary Photo Company Ltd
Portrait, photographic postcard
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2016
La Milo in Lady Godiva procession, Coventry, 1907, c. 1907
an unknown artist
Portrait, photographic postcard
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2016
Of Pansy, plastiques and prudes
Lust
Near-naked subversion
Graham Sutherland
Biography
Graham Sutherland OM (1903–1980) was an English artist, best known as the painter of the portrait of Sir Winston Churchill aged 80, subsequently destroyed by the sitter's wife, Clementine.
1 portrait in the collection
Philanthropic donations enable otherwise unobtainable acquisition
20 October 2016
Archived media releases 2016
A magnanimous portrait of Helena Rubinstein has been acquired for the National Portrait Gallery’s collection.
Pansy Montague
Biography
Pansy Montague, ‘La Milo’ (c. 1885-unknown) appeared as a chorus girl and actress in Melbourne from about 1898, and in 1901 understudied Nellie Stewart in Sydney.
10 portraits in the collection
Study in scarlet
Magazine article by Angus Trumble, 2018
Angus Trumble reflects on the force of nature that was Helena Rubinstein.