Winner: Archibald Prize 1965
Clifton Pugh RA Henderson, Esq
oil on board
121.9 x 91.4 cm
The subject of this portrait by Clifton Pugh is journalist and media proprietor Rupert Albert Geary Henderson (1896-1986). Henderson was a director and former managing director of the newspaper publishing company John Fairfax Limited, which had commissioned the painting and presented it to its subject to celebrate his 50-year association with the company.