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

Esme Bell WH Bell ASTC (Arch), ARIA

170 x 85 cm (framed)

Image courtesy the artist's estate

The subject of this portrait by Esme Bell is her husband, architect Walter Hercules Bell (1910–1992). In later years, the couple established a ceramics business creating figurines of early Australian colonial figures.