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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
Listed alphabetically
Honour board
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.
Michelle Simmons, 2018
by Selina Ou
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Commissioned with funds provided by the Sid and Fiona Myer Family Foundation 2018
Memories
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The second row of paintings recall stories relating to specific sites, experiences and activities.
Portrait Donors
Listed by year
Honour board
Arcadia: Sound of the sea
Exhibition introduction
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One night in the spring of 1970 in an old house in Whale Beach, north of Sydney, John Witzig, Albe Falzon and David Elfick put together the first issue of Tracks, playing Neil Young’s album Harvest over and over again as they pasted up galleys of type.
Uncommon Australians
The vision of Gordon and Marilyn Darling
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Sarah Engledow writes about Gordon and Marilyn Darling and their support for the National Portrait Gallery throughout its evolution.
NPPP 2016 exhibition essay
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Penny Grist, National Photographic Portrait Prize judge and curator, introduces the 2016 Prize.