At first glance, it could be a classic family portrait, three brothers gathered behind their little sister seated at the front.
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Except that it's placed between Chrissie Amphlett and Nick Cave on the walls of the National Portrait Gallery, and it depicts the legendary 1960s folk-pop group the Seekers.
A second glance reveals the unmistakeable quartet, now in their sixties and seventies, with "little sister" role filled by lead singer Judith Durham, wearing distinctly rock n' roll black lace-up boots.
The group were in Canberra on Thursday to donate the portrait, by Melbourne artist Helen Edwards, to the gallery just weeks before they play the Canberra dates on their official 50-year reunion tour.
Speaking to The Canberra Times, Durham, along with Athol Guy, Keith Potger and Bruce Woodley, was effusive about seeing their portrait in such august surrounds.
"In all these years, we've been photographed obviously millions of times, but we've never, ever sat for a portrait. And of course for it to end up being hung in this gallery, who would have thought?" Durham said.
She had approached Edwards to do the portrait to mark the band's golden anniversary back in 2011.
Edwards, also at the gallery, said she had taken photographs of the group posing and playing around, and toyed with various ideas before settling on the theme that seemed to come most naturally to them.
"I think what came across to me that day of your rehearsal was the lovely family feel the four of you have got, the brotherly-sisterly kind of thing and the affection. That's what I wanted to show,'' she said.
Guy said it couldn't be more appropriate.
"We just had this relationship also with our audience, it's a very, very personalised family-type connection, it doesn't matter how many of them are out in front of you in the theatre. You're in their lounge room, and that's the way they see it," he said.
Durham said it was important to the group that the portrait be shared.
"It's fascinating coming here today and walking around the gallery, understanding what heritage it is for Australia, and to feel part of that company is quite incredible," she said.
Edwards said she was still pinching herself at the thought of painting the folk heroes of her youth.
"It's amazing. If you'd said to me when I was in my teens and 20s that I was going to paint the Seekers one day...I was as much of a fan as most people," she said.
"I didn't collect the records specifically, but I loved the music. I was a teacher for 20 years in primary schools, and the Seekers songs were so popular with children. And now I've got grandchildren and we sing the same songs all over again."
The group already have strong connections to Canberra, and not only because of the plaque commemorating their joint naming as 1968's Australians of the Year by Lake Burley Griffin.
In 1967, the group made a documentary, The Seekers Down Under, which shows them travelling through various Australian cities in an open-topped car, singing their own songs.
When they arrive in Canberra, they alight at the steps of Old Parliament House and are greeted by Prime Minister Harold Holt.
"We had a great liaison all round and he was delighted to meet us on the steps of Parliament House, and we had a great time going round Australia," said Guy.
"One of the things about that film, we found out later that the Department of Immigration used it through Europe, and they still it's one of the best marketing tools for immigration to Australia that they've ever had."
Durham said the documentary was very much of its time, especially the footage of Canberra.
"We showed each city, and the idea of course is that that's Canberra then, that's what Canberra looked like, and the fact that we could be in an open-topped car sitting up the back with no safety restrictions," she said.
Potger said he felt the band had come full circle in the capital, especially as they had had to add an extra Canberra date to their reunion tour next month.
"We're a part of Canberra, from Harold Holt's handshake to our portrait in the gallery," he said.
The Seekers will be playing at the Royal Theatre on May 3 and 4.