Nicholas Harding, a British-born Autsralian artist who won the Archibald Prize in 2001 with a portrait of John Bell as King Lear had an estimated net worth of $6 million at time of death.
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Harding was born in 1956 and died from cancer on 2 Nov. 2022 at age 66.
Harding, who was based in Sydney at the time he died won the Archibald in 2001 with a portrait of actor John Bell as King Lear, and was named as a finalist in the prize an unprecedented19 times.
- He was a finalist in the Archibald Prize for thirteen years in a row from 1994 to 2006, and also in 2009, 2011, 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2020.
Harding also won the People’s Choice Award at the 2005 Archibald, with Bob’s Daily Swim.
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Harding was exhibited in the finalists for the Sulman Prize in 1981, 2003, 2006 and the Wynne Prize in 1994, 1996, 1998, 2003, 2016, and 2017, winning in 2022 with Eora.
He also won the Dobell Prize in 2001 with Eddy Avenue and in the same year, he was awarded a Centenary Medal.
Harding’s work has been the subject of more than 40 solo exhibitions since 1992 and has been included in over 100 group exhibitions since 1982.
His work has been included in many public collections, including;
- Art Gallery of South Australia,
- Tweed River Art Gallery,
- Art Gallery of New South Wales,
- Newcastle Art Gallery,
- Maitland Regional Art Gallery
- The National Gallery of Australia and
- National Portrait Gallery.
This year, he won the Wynne Prize with a lush landscape entitled Eora.
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