The National Portrait Gallery mourns the loss of one our most generous benefactors, Robert Oatley AO.
Portraits can render honour to remarkable men and women, but there are other ways.
The Chairman, Board, Director and all the staff of the National Portrait Gallery mourn the loss of our Benefactor, Mary Isabel Murphy.
It is a painful truth, but one which must be faced up to, that the pavlova, that iconic Australian dessert, a staple since the 1930s, was actually invented in New Zealand.
On the day before the Hon. E. G. Whitlam, AC, QC, died last month, at the great age of 98, there were seven former prime ministers of Australia still living, plus the incumbent Mr. Abbott – eight in all.
The long life and few words of a vice-regal cockatoo
To celebrate his family bicentenary, Malcolm Robertson looks at the portraiture legacy left by his ancestors.
Penelope Grist finds photographer Matt Nettheim re-visiting a formative and fulfilling career tram stop.
The first index I created was for my first book, and, to my astonishment, that was almost twenty-five years ago.
In their own words lead researcher Louise Maher on the novel project that lets the Gallery’s portraits speak for themselves.
Corinna Cullen on the symbolic power of pandemic-related imagery over the ages.
Penelope Grist charts an immersive path through Stuart Spence’s photography.
At first glance, this small watercolour group portrait of her two sons and four daughters by Maria Caroline Brownrigg (d. 1880) may seem prosaic, even hesitant
I keep going back to Cartier: The Exhibition at the National Gallery of Australia next door, and, within the exhibition, to Princess Marie Louise’s diamond, pearl and sapphire Indian tiara (1923), surely one of the most superb head ornaments ever conceived.
This is my last Trumbology before, in a little more than a week from now, I pass to my successor Karen Quinlan the precious baton of the Directorship of the National Portrait Gallery.