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Maritime disaster leaves poignant picture
Devotion
Absence rends the heart asunder
A head for business and a heart for love
Lust
For love, not money
The last bushrangers
It's Complicated
Brothers in harms
She saved his life. He showed her painting.
Nearest & Dearest
Leaders, painters, friends
Who is Lillie Roberts?
Devotion
Talented wife for a talented husband
To coin a (farewell) phrase
Devotion
A penny for their thoughts
Street fare
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The late Georgian and early Victorian working classes often bought their food in ale-houses, chop-houses and ‘penny pie shops’, or purchased their meals day after day in the streets.
Icons Syndicate
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Honour board
Finalists announced for National Photographic Portrait Prize
14 November 2018
Archived media releases 2018
The National Portrait Gallery would like to congratulate the forty finalists for the National Photographic Portrait Prize 2019.
2015-17 Acquisition Fund
Annual Appeal
From 2015 to 2017 the Acquisition Fund was focussed on Reg Richardson AM by Mitch Cairns, a finalist in the Archibald Prize 2014, and a great example of minimalist portraiture.
Executive
Our team
National Portrait Gallery Director Bree Pickering leads the executive team.
Ralph Kenke and Elmar Trefz win Digital Portraiture Award with Selfie Factory
1 December 2017
Archived media releases 2017
The National Portrait Gallery is pleased to announce Mr Ralph Kenke and Mr Elmar Trefz are the winners of the Digital Portraiture Award 2017 for their submission Selfie Factory.
Allow me to introduce...
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These full-length figures in watercolour, gouache and pencil date mostly from the 1820s, and almost all come from the collection of the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart.
Alfredo Esquillo Jr
by Patrick D. Flores
Artist essays
Born in Manila in 1972, Alfredo Esquillo Jr majored in painting at University of Santo Thomas.
Presenting… Shirley Purdie’s Ngalim-Ngalimbooroo Ngagenybe
Wednesday 27 May 2020
Archived media releases 2020
The National Portrait Gallery this week launches an online exhibition of Shirley Purdie’s remarkable self-portrait Ngalim-Ngalimbooroo Ngagenybe to coincide with Reconciliation Week.
NPPP 2009 exhibition essay
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Dr Christopher Chapman, National Photographic Portrait Prize judge and curator, introduces the 2009 Prize.