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Magazine article by Joanna Gilmour, 2009
Joanna Gilmour explores the life of female Australian surfing legend Isabel Letham.
Portrait 34
December 2009 - February 2010
Magazine
This issue features Australian cricketers, surfing legend Isabel Letham, Christos Tsiolkas, Bob Brown's portrait by Harold 'The Kangaroo' Thornton, James Angus, virtual portraits and more.
Tribute: Mary Isabel Murphy
About Face article
The Chairman, Board, Director and all the staff of the National Portrait Gallery mourn the loss of our Benefactor, Mary Isabel Murphy.
Study for commissioned portrait of HRH Crown Princess Mary of Denmark (full-length study), 2005
Jiawei Shen
Portrait, black pastel on brown paper
Commissioned with funds provided by Mary Isabel Murphy 2005
Honour board
Support your Portrait Gallery
The National Portrait Gallery acknowledges and thanks all its supporters.
Study for commissioned portrait of HRH Crown Princess Mary of Denmark (full-length study), 2005
Jiawei Shen
Portrait, oil on canvas
Commissioned with funds provided by Mary Isabel Murphy 2005
Portrait of George Selth Coppin, c. 1895-1899
Tom Roberts
Portrait, oil on cedar panel
Purchased with funds provided by Mary Isabel Murphy 2004
Jeremiah Ware, c. 1854
Robert Dowling
Portrait, oil on board
Purchased with funds provided by Mary Isabel Murphy and Rosalind Blair Murphy 2014
Study for commissioned portrait of HRH Crown Princess Mary of Denmark (profile head study), 2005
Jiawei Shen
Portrait, oil on canvas
Commissioned with funds provided by Mary Isabel Murphy 2005
Mary Ware, c. 1854
Robert Dowling
Portrait, oil on canvas on board
Purchased with funds provided by Mary Isabel Murphy and Rosalind Blair Murphy 2014
Portrait of HRH Crown Princess Mary of Denmark, 2005
Jiawei Shen
Portrait, oil on canvas
Commissioned with funds provided by Mary Isabel Murphy 2005
Portraits for Posterity
Previous exhibition, 2006
Drawn from some of the many donations made to the Gallery's collection, the exhibition Portraits for Posterity pays homage both to the remarkable (and varied) group of Australians who are portrayed in the portraits and the generosity of the many donors who have presented them to the Gallery.
Heads of the People
A Portrait of Colonial Australia
Previous exhibition, 2000
For Tom Roberts - Australia's best nineteenth-century portrait painter - neither a proto-national portrait gallery nor more popular collections of portrait heads, were sufficient public celebrations for the notables of Australian history
Desert Island Discs
About Face article
I agonized over the choice of four songs to take with me to the ABC Studios for Alex Sloan’s Canberra 666 afternoon program, a sort of iteration of the old BBC Desert Island Discs.
Moving still
Magazine article by Anne O'Hehir, 2022
Anne O’Hehir on the seductive power of the film still to reflect and shape ourselves and our cultural landscape.
Australian Princess
Magazine article by Katherine Russell, 2005
The full-length portrait of HRH Crown Princess Mary of Denmark by artist Jiawei Shen, has become a destination piece for visitors.