type of feminine beauty", and it was considered "one of the best things he had ever done." His 1929 portrait of the artist Ellis Rowan was the first national portrait of an Australian woman. The Art Gallery of South Australia holds his portraits of Paris Nesbit and The Artist's Wife. Longstaff's portraits of women were the subject of the 2012 exhibition Portrait of a Lady at the Shepparton Art Museum. Biography His biography Portrait in Youth, written by Nina Murdoch was published in 1948. His 1920 portrait of Nina Murdoch hangs in Reading Room of the National Library, Canberra. Archibald prize His Archibald Prize winning pieces: 1925 - Portrait of Maurice Moscovitch 1928 - Portrait of Dr Alexander Leeper 1929 - W A Holman, KC 1931 - Sir John Sulman 1935 - A B ('Banjo') Paterson Gallery References Leigh Astbury, 'Longstaff, Sir John Campbell (1861–1941)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 10, MUP, 1986, pp 141–142. External links John Longstaff at Artcyclopedia LONGSTAFF, Sir John at the Australian War Memorial Portrait of Jessica Harcourt, 1925, National Gallery of Victoria Catalogue for Portrait of a Lady exhibition, 2012, Shepparton Art Museum 1861 births 1941 deaths Knights Bachelor Australian war artists Australian portrait painters Archibald Prize winners Archibald Prize finalists People from Clunes, Victoria World War I artists 19th-century Australian painters 19th-century Australian male artists 20th-century Australian painters 20th-century Australian male artists Australian male painters National Gallery of Victoria Art School alumni