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Hugh Ramsay
'Letters from Paris'
Portrait story
Hugh Ramsay's letters were written while he was living in Paris to his family back in Australia.
Hugh Ramsay
Biography
Hugh Ramsay (1877-1906), painter, was born in Scotland but arrived in Australia as a baby.
3 portraits in the collection
Alexander Ramsay
Biography
Alexander Ramsay CBE (1914-1978), public servant, trained and worked as a teacher before gaining his degree at the University of Adelaide in 1941.
1 portrait in the collection
Self portrait (Full Length in front of Easel), 1901-1902
Hugh Ramsay
Portrait, oil on canvas
Gift of the Estate of John Oswald Wicking 2003
Andrew Mitchell Ramsay
Biography
Andrew Mitchell Ramsay (1809-1869), clergyman, was Melbourne's first Presbyterian minister.
1 portrait in the collection
Alexander Maurice Ramsay, 1978
Robert Hannaford AM
Portrait, oil on composition board
Gift of Janet, Andrew, Kathryn and Eleanor Ramsay, daughters and son of Alexander Maurice Ramsay and Amy Jane Ramsay 2010. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Portrait of Ambrose Patterson, 1901-1902
Hugh Ramsay
Portrait, oil on canvas
Gift of the Estate of John Oswald Wicking 2003
Velasquez Touch
Magazine article by Andrew Sayers AM, 2004
Former NPG Director, Andrew Sayers, explores the creative collaborations between four Australian artists living in Paris during the first years of the twentieth century.
Wunderkind lost
Magazine article by Inga Walton, 2021
Inga Walton on the brief but brilliant life of Hugh Ramsay.
Rev. Andrew Mitchell Ramsay, 1865
an unknown artist
Portrait, albumen silver photograph on paper laid on cardboard
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by L Gordon Darling AC CMG 2009
Portrait sketch of Nellie Melba, 1902
Hugh Ramsay
Portrait, oil on canvas
Gift of the Mitchell Family and the Fullerton Family 2000
Janet Keats
Biography
Janet le Brun Brown (Keats) (1900-1985), soprano, was born on her family's property, Riggsdale, near Goulburn, but on account of frailty she was sent to live with her grandparents in Inverell, Moree and Dungog before going to boarding school in the Blue Mountains and Gosford.
1 portrait in the collection
Janet Dawson
Biography
Janet Dawson (b. 1935), painter, printer, teacher and stage designer, is known for her contribution to abstract art in Australia.
10 portraits in the collection
Janet Vernon AM
Biography
Janet Vernon AM, dancer, met her life and professional partner, Graeme Murphy, at the Australian Ballet School.
1 portrait in the collection
Janet Dawson
In their own words
In their own words
Recorded 1965
Sixteen, 2010
by Janet Tavener
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