We acknowledge the Gadigal of the Eora Nation, the traditional custodians of the Country on which the Art Gallery of NSW stands.

Charles Salis Lloyd JK Moir, Esq

oil on canvas

86.5 x 70.5 cm (sight)

Image courtesy State Library Victoria

This portrait by Charles Salis Lloyd of book collector and literary patron John Kinmont (Jack) Moir (1893–1958) is now in the collection of the State Library Victoria.

A label on the back of the work says ‘President of the Bread and Cheese Club’, a society that was founded in Melbourne in 1938 for the purpose of fostering ‘mateship, art and letters’.