Cover art for James Fairfax Portrait Of A Collector In Eleven Objects
Published
Newsouth, August 2025
ISBN
9781761170621
Format
Softcover

James Fairfax Portrait Of A Collector In Eleven Objects

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James Fairfax was one of the nations greatest philanthropists, collectors and champions of Australian art. Chairman of what was then known as John Fairfax Ltd, he put together one of the countrys most important collections of European Old Masters, and was a generous benefactor to the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney.

In this evocative biography his nephew, Alexander Gilly, pieces together Fairfaxs life through the prism of his art collection. Through a long-case clock built by Fairfaxs grandfather and given to his parents as a wedding gift, a painting by Rubens, a sculpture by Robert Klippel, a mural created for his country home by Donald Friend and other treasured objects, Gilly reveals the complex private and public lives of a man at the centre of a media dynasty.

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