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The National Portrait Gallery acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of Country throughout Australia and recognises the continuing connection to lands, waters and communities. We pay our respect to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures and to Elders both past and present.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are warned that this website contains images of deceased persons.

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Jim Anderson

Biography

Jim Anderson was born in England, his family moving to Australia when he was one year old.

1 portrait in the collection

Ethel Anderson and her daughter, Bethia

Ethel Anderson

Biography

Ethel Anderson (née Mason, 1883-1958), writer and artist, was an important figure in the Sydney modern art scene of the 1920s and 30s.

2 portraits in the collection

Margaret Anderson

Margaret Anderson GM

Biography

Margaret Anderson GM (1915–1995) served with the Australian Army Nursing Service during the Second World War in Singapore.

1 portrait in the collection

The Hon Gough Whitlam, Ossie Cruse and Michael Anderson

Michael Anderson

Biography

Michael Anderson, sheep farmer and Aboriginal land rights activist, was born in Brewarrina, NSW.

1 portrait in the collection

Angry Anderson

Angry Anderson

Biography

Gary ‘Angry’ Anderson AM (b. 1947) is an Australian rock singer and television presenter.

1 portrait in the collection

Dame Judith Anderson

Dame Judith Anderson AC DBE

Biography

Dame Judith Anderson AC DBE (1897–1992) was an Adelaide-born stage and film actress well known for her role as the sinister Mrs Danvers in Alfred Hitchcock's Rebecca (1940).

1 portrait in the collection

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Emeritus Professor Jaynie Anderson AM

Biography

Professor Jaynie Anderson is the Herald Chair of Fine Arts and Foundation Director of the Australian Institute of Art History at the University of Melbourne.

1 portrait in the collection

David Moore, Max Dupain and John Gollings

Max Dupain OBE

Biography

Max Dupain OBE (1911–1992) was a pioneering modernist photographer.

98 portraits in the collection

Olive Cotton

Olive Cotton

Biography

Olive Cotton (1911-2003) was one of Australia's pioneering modernist photographers.

2 portraits in the collection

Clem Seale and Robert Emerson Curtis

Robert Emerson Curtis

Biography

Robert Emerson Curtis (1898-1996) was an illustrator and painter who arrived in Sydney from England in 1924.

2 portraits in the collection

Sydney Ancher

Sydney Ancher

Biography

Sydney Ancher (1904-1980), architect, graduated from Sydney Tech College in 1930.

1 portrait in the collection

George Hoyningen-Huene and Jessie the Barmaid

Jessie Sinden

Biography

Jessie Sinden was a barmaid at the Brooklyn Hotel on George Street in Sydney when she was 'discovered' by Baron George Hoyningen-Huene, a high-profile American fashion photographer and Hollywood figure.

1 portrait in the collection

Dame Helen Blaxland

Dame Helen Blaxland DBE

Biography

Dame Helen Blaxland DBE (1907–1989), conservationist and fundraiser, studied at the Julian Ashton School of Art in Sydney.

1 portrait in the collection

Antonia Blaxland

Antonia Blaxland

Biography

Antonia Blaxland (1929-1989), photographer, was the great-great granddaughter of Gregory Blaxland, leader of the successful Blue Mountains expedition in 1813.

1 portrait in the collection

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Meg Padgham

Biography

Meg Padgham studied at East Sydney Technical College and the Meldrum School.

1 portrait in the collection

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Kerry Dundas

Biography

Kerry Dundas, son of artist Douglas Dundas, gained an interest in photography as a student at Sydney Grammar school.

8 portraits in the collection

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