| Year |
Artist |
Title |
| 2010 |
Leach, Sam |
Tim Minchin |
| 2009 |
Maestri, Guy |
Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu |
| 2008 |
Barton, Del Kathryn |
You are what is most beautiful about me, a self portrait with Kell and Arella |
| 2007 |
Beard, John |
Janet Laurence |
| 2006 |
Wills, Marcus |
The Paul Juraszek monolith (after Marcus Gheeraerts) |
| 2005 |
Olsen, John |
Self portrait Janus Faced |
| 2004 |
Ruddy, Craig |
David Gulpilil, two worlds |
| 2003 |
Dyer, Geoffrey |
Richard Flanagan |
| 2002 |
Hood, Cherry |
Simon Tedeschi unplugged |
| 2001 |
Harding, Nicholas |
John Bell as King Lear |
| 2000 |
Cullen, Adam |
Portrait of David Wenham |
| 1999 |
MacLeod, Euan |
Self Portrait/head like a hole |
| 1998 |
Miller, Lewis |
Portrait of Allan Mitelman no.3 |
| 1997 |
Thomson, Nigel |
Barbara Blackman |
| 1996 |
Sharpe, Wendy |
Self Portrait - as Diana of Erskineville |
| 1995 |
Robinson, William |
Self Portrait With Stunned Mullet |
| 1994 |
Giacco, Francis |
Homage to John Reichard |
| 1993 |
Shead, Garry |
Tom Thompson |
| 1991/92 |
Westwood, Bryan |
The Prime Minister |
| 1990 |
Proud, Geoffrey |
Dorothy Hewett |
| 1989 |
Westwood, Bryan |
Portrait of Elwyn Lynn |
| 1988 |
Cress, Fred |
John Beard |
| 1987 |
Robinson, William |
Equestrian Self Portrait |
| 1986 |
Allen, Davida |
Dr John Arthur McKelvie Shera |
| 1985 |
Warren, Guy |
Flugelman with Wingman |
| 1984 |
Looby, Keith |
Max Gillies |
| 1983 |
Thomson, Nigel |
Chandler Coventry |
| 1982 |
Smith, Eric |
Peter Sculthorpe |
| 1981 |
Smith, Eric |
Rudy Komon |
| 1979 |
Walters, Wesley |
Portrait of Phillip Adams |
| 1978 |
Whiteley, Brett |
Art, Life and the other thing |
| 1977 |
Connor, Kevin |
Robert Klippel |
| 1976 |
Whiteley, Brett |
Self Portrait in the Studio |
| 1975 |
Connor, Kevin |
The Hon Sir Frank Kitto, K.B.E. |
| 1974 |
Fullbrook, Samuel |
Jockey Norman Stephens |
| 1973 |
Dawson, Janet |
Michael Boddy |
| 1972 |
Pugh, Clifton |
The Hon E.G. Whitlam |
| 1971 |
Pugh, Clifton |
Sir John McEwan |
| 1970 |
Smith, Eric |
Gruzman - Architect |
| 1969 |
Crooke, Ray |
George Johnston |
| 1968 |
Pidgeon, William |
Lloyd Rees |
| 1967 |
Cassab, Judy |
Margo Lewers |
| 1966 |
Molvig, Jon |
Charles Blackman |
| 1965 |
Pugh, Clifton |
R. A. Henderson, Esq. |
| 1963 |
Carington Smith, Jack |
Professor James McAuley |
| 1962 |
Kahan, Louis |
Patrick White |
| 1961 |
Pidgeon, William |
Rabbi Dr I. Porush |
| 1960 |
Cassab, Judy |
Stanislaus Rapotec |
| 1959 |
Dobell, William |
Dr Edward MacMahon |
| 1958 |
Pidgeon, William |
Mr Ray Walker |
| 1957 |
Hele, Ivor |
Self Portrait |
| 1956 |
Dargie, William |
Mr. Albert Namatjira |
| 1955 |
Hele, Ivor |
Robert Campbell |
| 1954 |
Hele, Ivor |
Rt. Hon. R. G. Menzies, P.C., C.H., Q.C., M.P. |
| 1953 |
Hele, Ivor |
Sir Henry Simpson Newland, CBE, DSO, MS, FRCS |
| 1952 |
Dargie, William |
Mr Essington Lewis, CH |
| 1951 |
Hele, Ivor |
Laurie Thomas |
| 1950 |
Dargie, William |
Sir Leslie McConnan |
| 1949 |
Murch, Arthur J |
Bonar Dunlop |
| 1948 |
Dobell, William |
Margaret Olley |
| 1947 |
Dargie, William |
Sir Marcus Clarke, Kt., K.B.E. [sic] |
| 1946 |
Dargie, William |
L. C. Robson, M.C., M.A.. |
| 1945 |
Dargie, William |
Lt-General The Hon Edmund Herring, KBC, DSO, MC, ED |
| 1944 |
Smith, Joshua |
Speaker, House of Representatives, Hon. J. S. Rosevear, M.P. |
| 1943 |
Dobell, William |
Mr. Joshua Smith |
| 1942 |
Dargie, William |
Corporal Jim Gordon, VC |
| 1941 |
Dargie, William |
Sir James Elder, KBE |
| 1940 |
Meldrum, Max |
Dr J. Forbes McKenzie |
| 1939 |
Meldrum, Max |
Hon G. J. Bell, C.M.G., D.S.O., V.D., (Speaker, House of Representatives) |
| 1938 |
Heysen, Nora |
Mme Elink Schuurman |
| 1937 |
Baker, Normand Henry |
Self Portrait |
| 1936 |
McInnes, William Beckwith |
Dr Julian Smith |
| 1935 |
Longstaff, John |
A. B. ('Banjo') Paterson |
| 1934 |
Hanke, Henry Aloysius |
Self Portrait |
| 1933 |
Wheeler, Charles |
Ambrose Pratt |
| 1932 |
Buckmaster, Ernest |
Sir William Irvine |
| 1931 |
Longstaff, John |
Sir John Sulman |
| 1930 |
McInnes, William Beckwith |
Drum-Major Harry McClelland |
| 1929 |
Longstaff, John |
The Hon. W. A. Holman, KC |
| 1928 |
Longstaff, John |
Dr Alexander Leeper |
| 1927 |
Lambert, George Washington |
Mrs Murdoch |
| 1926 |
McInnes, William Beckwith |
Silk and Lace (Miss Esther Paterson) |
| 1925 |
Longstaff, John |
Maurice Moscovitch |
| 1924 |
McInnes, William Beckwith |
Miss Collins |
| 1923 |
McInnes, William Beckwith |
Portrait of a Lady |
| 1922 |
McInnes, William Beckwith |
Professor Harrison Moore |
| 1921 |
McInnes, William Beckwith |
Desbrowe Annear |
