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Gift of the artist 2006
Diana Warnes discusses the portrait of the Australian mathematician Terence Tao.
Gift of the artist 2009
This issue of Portrait Magazine features the Reveries: On Photography and Mortality exhibition, Peter Cosgrove, Martin Sharp, Terence Tao and more.
Accomplished illustrator, painter, writer and diarist, set designer and one of the most distinguished photographers of the twentieth century, Cecil Beaton is renowned for his portraits of well known faces from the worlds of fashion, literature, and film.
Michael Wardell’s personal insight into Jacques van der Merwe’s New Arrivals.
Dr Sarah Engledow writes about the gift of two striking paintings by the Australian artist Ken Done AM.
Dr Sarah Engledow, National Photographic Portrait Prize judge and curator, introduces the 2014 Prize.
Traversing paint and pixels, Inga Walton examines portraits of select women in Tudors to Windsors: British Royal Portraits.
Dr Sarah Engledow puts four gifts to the National Portrait Gallery’s Collection in context.
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