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Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2010

Gwen Pratt FRAS (b.1917) is a traditional painter and portraitist in oil, watercolour and pastel.
1 portrait in the collection

Richard Pratt (1934-2009), businessman, came to Australia with his parents, Polish Jews, in 1938.
2 portraits in the collection

Jeanne Pratt AC (b. c. 1936), born to Jewish parents in Poland before the war, came to Australia as a three year old.
1 portrait in the collection



Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2001



Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Alana Landsberry and Bauer Media Australia 2019



Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2011



Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the Stretton family 1999
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program

Elegance in exile is an exhibition surveying the work of Richard Read senior, Thomas Bock, Thomas Griffiths Wainewright and Charles Rodius: four artists who, though exiled to Australia as convicts, created many of the most significant and elegant portraits of the colonial period.



Purchased 2001



Purchased 2003

Since 1993 Brisbane-based artist David M Thomas has investigated self identity through art works that encompass painting, text, audio, video and performance.

An interview with Australian astronaut, Dr. Andy Thomas, who describes the experience of space travel.

Thomas Lewis Atkinson (1817-c. 1890) is described in the Benezit Dictionary of Artists as 'one of the shining representatives of English engraving'.
1 portrait in the collection

Avril Thomas (b. 1956), artist, was born in Malaysia and went to boarding school in Scotland and Australia.
2 portraits in the collection

Rover Thomas (1926-1998), Kukatja-Wangkajunga artist, was born in the Great Sandy Desert of Western Australia and worked as a stockman and fencer before losing his employment upon the introduction of equal pay for indigenous workers in 1975.
1 portrait in the collection