ON 8 NOVEMBER 1943, Justice Roper of the Supreme Court of NSW in Attorney-General v Trustees of the National Art Gallery of NSW (1945) 62 WN (NSW), 212, dismissed a challenge to William Dobell receiving the Archibald Prize for his portrait of fellow artist Joshua Smith.
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