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Gift of Ronald A Walker 2009. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

Photographer Julius Schaar (1847-1904) operated a number of studios in Dusseldorf during the 1880s, producing portraits in the standard studio style of the period.
1 portrait in the collection

Amandus Julius Fischer (1859-1948) began his art studies in Sydney before proceeding to the Westminster School of art in London, and the Académie Julian and the Atelier Colarossi in Paris.
1 portrait in the collection



Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2012



Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2013

Jane Raffan investigates auction sales of self portraits nationally and internationally.

Georgina ‘Ina’ Gregory (1874-1964) grew up with her sister Ada at Rosedale, her family home in East St Kilda.
1 portrait in the collection


Roland Wakelin was born in New Zealand and studied at the RAS school in Sydney under Dattilo Rubbo from 1912 to 1914.
1 portrait in the collection

Brett Whiteley AO, artist, displayed a brilliant talent for drawing as a Sydney private schoolboy.
11 portraits in the collection



Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2004

Bernard Katz (1911-2003), winner of the 1970 Nobel prize for medicine with Ulf von Euler and Julius Axelrod, was naturalised as an Australian citizen in 1941.
1 portrait in the collection



Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Philip Bacon AM 2001
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program



Gift of the artist 2003. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

Coral Browne (1913-1991) was an Australian actress who left for England in 1934.
1 portrait in the collection

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