Mrs Annie Murdoch is a 1927 portrait painting by Australian artist George Washington Lambert.
[1] Murdoch commissioned this painting of his mother, who migrated to Australia from Scotland in 1884 with her Presbyterian minister husband, Patrick.
Lambert portrayed the alert-faced matron, with her brown eyes looking directly out of the picture with confidence and authority.
He showed her smiling with what might be interpreted as genial amusementThe painting was awarded the Archibald Prize in 1927.
[2] The painting remains part of the Murdoch family collection.