Unknown artist Lloyd George

David Lloyd George (1863–1945) was prime minister of the United Kingdom at the time of the first Archibald Prize competition. He did not, apparently, visit Australia during his term in office.

Although there is no catalogue of the 1921 Archibald Prize, we know there was a portrait of him (although we don’t know the name of the artist) as the painting is mentioned in a report in The Bulletin on 26 January 1922, and a Table Talk article on the same day says that it was ‘taken from a photograph’.

It may be a separate portrait by any one of the 25 artists currently listed in the prizes archive for the 2021 Archibald Prize exhibition or it may refer to one of the unidentified subjects in portraits by Mary Cecil Allen, George Bell, Clewin Harcourt, Polly Hurry, Frank Latimer, Stanley Lloyd and William Macleod.