Winner for 1948
Finalists for 1948
- Tom Alban - Melbourne Ward, Esq., F.R.Z.S., F.Z.S.
- Tom Alban - Captain Kasakoff
- S Antonini - Self Portrait
- S Antonini - Miss Agnew
- Alan D Baker - Artist's Wife
- Normand Henry Baker - Self Portrait
- Howard Barron - "Trudy of England" Mrs. G. V. Wikner
- Robert A Blake - Maestro Franco Ghione
- Mary Brady - Miss Florence Goldman
- Mary Brady - Artist's Brother
- Ernest Buckmaster - Dr. H. V. Mattingley, D.D.Sc., B.D.Sc. (Melb. Univ.), M.A.C.D.
- Ernest Buckmaster - Harold Blair
- Charles William Bush - Self Portrait
- Mary Caldersmith - Self Portrait
- Jack Carington Smith - The Hon. Sir John Morris, Kt., M.A., L. L.D., Chief Justice of Tasmania
- Harold Chester - The Very Rev. John Flynn, O.B.E., D.D.
- Amalie Sara Colquhoun - Flight Liet. James Bruce Birchfield, No. 3 Squadron, R.A.A.F.
- Archibald D Colquhoun - Amalie S. Colquhoun
- James Cook - Douglas Dundas, Esq.
- William Dargie - Lt.-Col. C. W. Anderson, V.C., M.C.,
- William Dargie - Miss Beatrice Tange
- William Dargie - Sir Samuel Hordern, K.B.E.
- Antonio Dattilo-Rubbo - Lt.-Colonel J. M. Prentice
- Aileen R Dent - Air Vice Marshal Victor Hurley, C.B., C.M.G., K.H.S., V.D.
- William Dobell - Margaret Olley (Winner: Archibald Prize 1948)
- Keith McKay Edmunds - Dr. Wilfred Giblin, F.R.C.S., of Hobart, Tasmania
- Mary Edwards - Constance Robertson
- Mary Edwards - Self Portrait
- Frances D Ellis - George Valder, Esq.
- Joy Ewart - Miss Dorothy I. Knox, M.A.
- Winston Fry - The Artist's Sons
- Garran-Brown - Self Portrait
- Anson Gilchrist - Dr. Wheatley
- James William Govett - Madame Hanson-Dyer
- James William Govett - Beth Thwaites (Mrs. Elizabeth McInnes)
- Vaughan Murray Griffin - Self Portrait
- Harley Griffiths (junior) - Portrait of My Father
- Clive Guthrie - Miss Bessie J. Mitchell
- Henry Aloysius Hanke - His Honour Judge Perdriau
- E A Harvey - Portrait of Mrs. Taussig
- John R Heath - Rudolph Himmer, Esq.
- Newton Hedstrom - Portrait Study
- Sali Herman - Wallace Thornton
- Justus Jorgensen - J. H. Edgar, Esq.
- Justus Jorgensen - J. H. Buesst, Esq.
- Vincent Juradowitch - Mrs. Rich
- Herbert Kemble - Self Portrait
- Jack Noel Kilgour - Lyndon Dadswell
- Jack Noel Kilgour - Mrs. Gladys Rodd
- Garrett Kingsley - Portrait of a Mother
- Tempe Manning - Gwen Meredith (Mrs. Ainsworth Harrison), B.A.
- Alfreda Marcovitch - M. K. Doherty
- Joseph Wilson Mawhinney - James Phillips
- Charles McKervey - David Saxby, Esq.
- Amy Constance Morton - Portrait of Mrs. Frank Mulhulland
- Jerrold Nathan - Mr. Roland Foster, F.G.S.M. (London)
- Jerrold Nathan - Mr. P. Le Couteur, Headmaster of Newington College, Stanmore, Sydney, N.S.W.
- Hilda Rix Nicholas - Howard Ashton, Esq.
- George Olszanski - Mrs. Lesley Brash
- George Olszanski - A. P. Oxley, the Grandson of Mr. P. Bushel
- L Scott Pendlebury - S.B. Robertson, Esq.
- Judith M Perrey - Dr. Joseph Patrick Fogarty
- William Pidgeon - F. J. Broadhurst
- Eric Smith - Mr. Harold Peck
- Eric Smith - Mr. Alan Warren
- Jim Smith - E. A. Harvey
- Joshua Smith - Dame Mary Gilmour [sic]
- Joshua Smith - The Late Matron Elizabeth Hunter, M.B.E., at the Request of the Doctors of the Waverley War Memorial Hospital
- Audrey C Snell - Mr. Peter French
- Roland Strasser - Mrs Eric Pratten
- Roland Strasser - Mr. Justice E. D. Roper [sic]
- Kenneth D Thomson - Portrait Study
- Graham A Thorley - William (Jock) Frater
- Harold L Thornton - Roy Rene (Mo)
- Wallace Thornton - Lyndon Dadswell
- Dora Toovey - Hugh Laming
- Lyall Trindall - E. G. Hallstrom, F.R.Z.S.
- Mary Troy - Most Rev. J. D. Simonds, D.D., Ph.D., Coadjutor, Archbishop of Melbourne
- Maria Teresa Vigano - Portrait Study
- Joseph Wolinski - Self Portrait
- Joseph Wolinski - Mr. John Goulston
