Walter Armiger Bowring Sir Henry Braddon

This portrait of businessman Henry Yule Braddon (1863–1955) is now in the University Art Collection of the Chau Chak Wing Museum at The University of Sydney.

Braddon was born in India and educated in Germany, France and England before moving to Tasmania in 1878 to join his father Edward Braddon (who served as premier of Tasmania from 1894 to 1899). As well as building a highly successful career in business and finance, Henry Braddon served as a diplomat and politician and on the committees of numerous organisations. An all-round sportsman, as a young man he represented New Zealand and the then colony of New South Wales in rugby union. He was knighted in 1920.

Walter Armiger Bowring (1874–1931) was born and educated in Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand. A talented illustrator, he also exhibited landscapes and portraits with the Canterbury Society of Arts, later studying with renowned portraitists William Orpen and Augustus John in London. Arriving in Sydney in 1925, he exhibited with the Royal Society of NSW from 1926. Fourteen of Bowring’s portraits were hung in Archibald exhibitions between 1926 and 1930.