Archibald Colquhoun, Sir Douglas Menzies, 1940
This talk will introduce the portrait paintings of the Peter O’Callaghan QC Gallery at the Victorian Bar. While this collection of past and present barristers is important to Victorian legal history, it is also a demonstration of movements in Australian art history. It will be shown how this small but important collection displays interesting examples of the traditional and conservative, as well as the modern and contemporary.
Adam Bushby is a lawyer and art history graduate. He holds bachelor’s degrees in commerce, law and art history from the University of Melbourne, and a master’s degree in art history from the Courtauld Institute of Art. Adam is currently a Senior Parliamentary Counsel for the Victorian Government, and the Curator of the Peter O’Callaghan QC Gallery at the Victorian Bar.
Tuesday 8 November 2020 at 5.30 pm in the Gallery at Owen Dixon Chambers.
All welcome. Please RSVP to rsvp@vicbar.com.au
The collection can be viewed online here: https://www.vicbar.com.au/news-resources/photo-galleries/victorian-bar-portraits