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Dora Toovey Lieut AR Cutler, VC

oil on canvas

99.7 x 74.5 cm

Image courtesy National Portrait Gallery, Canberra

This portrait by Dora Toovey of Arthur Roden Cutler (1916–2002) is now in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery, 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 Henry Hanke.