Henry Aloysius Hanke Lieut AR Cutler, VC

This portrait by Henry Hanke of Arthur Roden Cutler (1916–2002) is now in the collection of the Australian War Memorial, Canberra. During the Second World War, Cutler served as a lieutenant in the Royal Australian Artillery in Syria in 1941, for which he was awarded the Victoria Cross. He later became a diplomat and governor of NSW.

This is one of two portraits of Culter in the 1943 Archibald Prize; the other is by Dora Toovey.