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To the end of the earth
Magazine article by Dr Sarah Engledow, 2009
The portrait of Dr. Johann Reinhold Forster and his son George Forster from 1780, is one of the oldest in the NPG's collection.
Face the music
Magazine article by Christine Clark, 2005
Drawn from the Gallery's collection, the exhibition Face the Music explores the remarkable talents and achievements of Australian musicians, composers, conductors and celebrities associated with the music industry.
Love my way
Magazine article by Inga Walton, 2022
Inga Walton delves into the bohemian group of artists and writers who used each other as muses and transformed British culture.
Capturing Cook
Magazine article by Dr Sarah Engledow, 2003
In focussing on the importance of gifts in the building of the collection, prominence must be given to the most spectacular of the National Portrait Gallery's acquisitions; the portrait of Captain James Cook RN by John Webber R.A.
In a good paddock
Magazine article by Dr Sarah Engledow, 2011
Celebrating a new painted portrait of Joseph Banks, Sarah Engledow spins a yarn of the naturalist, the first kangaroo in France and Don, a Spanish ram.
Shadows of light
Magazine article by Mark Haworth-Booth, 2002
Mark Haworth-Booth explains why Bill Brandt is one of the most important British photographers of the Twentieth Century.
Getting a head
Magazine article by Alexandra Roginski, 2015
Alexandra Roginski gets a feel for phrenology’s fundamentals.
In the flesh
Magazine article by Penelope Grist, 2015
An exhibition of humanness in ten themes by Penelope Grist.
Political profiles
Magazine article by Joanna Gilmour, 2016
Joanna Gilmour examines the prolific output of Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, and discovers the risk of taking a portrait at face value.
Thrown together
Magazine article by Dr Sarah Engledow, 2009
Shipmates for years, James Cook and Joseph Banks each kept a journal but neither man shed light on their relationship.