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Dame Mary Gilmore DBE
Biography
Dame Mary Gilmore DBE (1865–1962), poet, journalist and social reformer, was born near Goulburn and had an itinerant childhood as her father moved the family around New South Wales for work.
3 portraits in the collection
Mary Gilmore
In their own words
In their own words
Recorded 1957
Dame Mary Gilmore, 1961
Max Dupain OBE
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Purchased with funds provided by Timothy Fairfax AC 2003
Dame Mary Gilmore, c. 1938
Lyall Trindall
Portrait, oil on canvas
Purchased with funds provided by Marilyn Darling AC 2001
Dr HV Evatt, Albert Namatjira and Dame Mary Gilmore having a meal, c. 1950s
an unknown artist
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by Marilyn Darling AC 2008
Painting writing
Magazine article by Dr Sarah Engledow, 2007
Dr Sarah Engledow explores the portraits of writers held in the National Portrait Gallery's collection.
Mary Windeyer
Biography
Mary Windeyer (née Bolton, 1837-1912), women's rights campaigner, was one of the nine children of Robert Thorley Bolton, a clergyman who emigrated to New South Wales in 1839.
3 portraits in the collection
Mary Rouse
Biography
Mary Hassall (nee Rouse), the eldest of Richard and Elizabeth's children, was born in England and made the sea journey to New South Wales as an infant.
2 portraits in the collection
Mary Ware
Biography
Jeremiah Ware (1792–1878) arrived in Van Diemen’s Land in 1822 with his wife, Mary (née Brooks, c.
1 portrait in the collection
Ann Mary Windeyer
Biography
Ann Mary Windeyer (née Rudd, c. 1783–1865) arrived in Sydney in 1828 with her husband Charles Windeyer (1780–1855) and nine of their ten children.
1 portrait in the collection
Queen Mary
Biography
George Frederick Ernest Albert, The Duke of Cornwall and York and later King George V (1865-1936), was the son of Edward VII, the man for whom the Edwardian era was named.
3 portraits in the collection
Mary MacQueen
Biography
Mary MacQueen studied for a year at the George Bell School after the war, and for another year at RMIT a decade later.
2 portraits in the collection
Mary Moore
Biography
Mary Moore (b. 1957) is a West Australian portrait artist. She began formal art training in Claremont at the age of fifteen, later attending the Western Australian Institute of Technology and Royal College of Art, London.
4 portraits in the collection
Lady Mary Hay
Biography
Lady Hay, née Chalmers (c. 1806-1892) was reported at the time of her death to have been about ten years older than Hay.
1 portrait in the collection
Disillusion self portrait, 1983
Mary MacQueen
Portrait, pastel and charcoal on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Robin MacQueen 2007
Ann Mary Windeyer, 1847
G Ziegler
Portrait, pastel and gouache on paper laid down on backing sheet
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Joanna Russell Maher (née Windeyer) 2018