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Chance encounter
Magazine article by Joanna Gilmour, 2009
Joanna Gilmour explores the life and times of one of Melbourne's early socialites, Jessie Eyre Williams.
The art of multiplicity
Magazine article by Meredith Hughes, 2019
Meredith Hughes explores a key Portrait Gallery work, emerging into the infinite iterations of identity.
A feast of friends
Magazine article by Richard Ormond, 2015
John Singer Sargent: a painter at the vanguard of contemporary movements in music, literature and theatre.
International issue
Magazine article by Michael Desmond, 2009
Michael Desmond looks at the history of the Vanity Fair magazine in conjunction with the exhibition Vanity Fair Portraits: Photographs 1913-2008
All dressed up
Magazine article by Jane Raffan, 2013
Jane Raffan asks do clothes make the portrait, and can the same work with a new title fetch a better price?
Australia’s great internationalists
Magazine article by Penelope Grist, 2016
Penelope Grist explores the United Nations stories in the Gallery’s collection.
Alter ego
Magazine article by Tom Fryer, 2021
Tom Fryer surveys the twentieth-century architectural project, and finds representation and the portrait were integral elements.
Sea legged frogs
Magazine article by Joanna Gilmour, 2011
Joanna Gilmour describes some of the stories of the individuals and incidents that define French exploration of Australia and the Pacific.