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A D Colquhoun Douglas I Menzies

91 x 75 cm

Image courtesy Peter O’Callaghan QC Gallery – Victorian Bar

This portrait by AD Colquhoun of Douglas Ian Menzies (1907–1974) is now in the Victorian Bar portrait collection at the Peter O’Callaghan QC Gallery.

A young barrister when this work was painted, Menzies would go on to become a justice of the High Court from 1958 to 1974.