
Portraits of Australia’s prime ministers have been a time-honoured tradition since the 1913 portrait of Edmund Barton. The country’s representative can choose their preferred artist to immortalise their visage and after their tenure has ended, they will reside alongside their predecessors on the walls of Parliament House in Canberra for all the world to see
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William Edwin Pidgeon (1909-1981), The Rt Hon. Harold Edward Holt CH, 1970, Historic Memorials Collection, Parliament House Art Collection, Department of Parliamentary Services, Canberra, ACT.
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William Alexander Dargie (1912-2003), John McEwen, 1969, Historic Memorials Collection, Parliament House Art Collection, Department of Parliamentary Services, Canberra, ACT.
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June Yvonne Mendoza (b. 1927), John Grey Gorton, 1971, Historic Memorials Collection, Parliament House Art Collection, Department of Parliamentary Services, Canberra, ACT.
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Ivor Henry Thomas Hele (1912-1993), William (Billy) McMahon, 1973, Historic Memorials Collection, Parliament House Art Collection, Department of Parliamentary Services, Canberra, ACT.
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Clifton Ernest Pugh (1924-1990), (Edward) Gough Whitlam, 1972, Historic Memorial Collection, Parliament House Art Collection, Department of Parliamentary Services, Canberra, ACT.
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Ivor Henry Thomas Hele (1912-1993), (John) Malcolm Fraser, 1984, Historic Memorials Collection, Parliament House Art Collection, Department of Parliamentary Services, Canberra, ACT.
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Desmond Robert (Bill) Leak (1956-2017), Robert (Bob) James Lee Hawke, 1992, Historic Memorials Collection, Parliament House Art Collection, Department of Parliamentary Services, Canberra, ACT.
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Robert Lyall Hannaford AM (b. 1944), Paul John Keating, 1997, Historic Memorials Collection, Parliament House Art Collection, Department of Parliamentary Services, Canberra, ACT.
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Jiawei Shen (b. 1948), John Winston Howard, 2009, Historic Memorials Collection, Parliament House Art Collection, Department of Parliamentary Services, Canberra, ACT.
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Vincent Fantuzzo (b. 1977), Julia Eileen Gillard, 2018, Historic Memorials Collection, Parliament House Art Collection, Department of Parliamentary Services, Canberra, ACT.
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ohannes Leak (b. 1980), Tony John Abbott, 2022, Historic Memorials Collection, Parliament House Art Collection, Department of Parliamentary Services, Canberra, ACT.
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