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Queen of cartes
Magazine article by Joanna Gilmour, 2019
Joanna Gilmour discusses the role of the carte de visite in portraiture’s democratisation, and its harnessing by Victoria, the world’s first media monarch.
Around the grounds
Magazine article by Dr Anne Sanders, 2010
Anne Sanders writes about the exhibitions Victoria & Albert: Art & Love on display at the Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace and the retrospective of Sir Thomas Lawrence at the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Barak, respected elder
Magazine article by Dr Christopher Chapman, 2009
Dr Christopher Chapman looks at the life of Wurundjeri elder William Barak through the portrait painted by Victor de Pury in 1899.
Portrait of the artist as a young man
Magazine article by Dr Sarah Engledow, 2010
Dr Sarah Engledow explores the early life and career of John Brack.
Pre-Raphaelite Profile
Magazine article by Michael Desmond, 2006
In 2006 the National Portrait Gallery acquired a splendid portrait of Victoria's first governor, Lieutenant Governor Charles Joseph La Trobe by Thomas Woolner.
Dame Elisabeth Murdoch
Magazine article by Simon Elliott, 2002
The story behind the commissioning of the tapesty portrait of Dame Elisabeth Murdoch.
Strutt your stuff
Magazine article by Matthew Jones, 2016
Matthew Jones on the upshot of a St Kilda Road outrage.
Joan Alone
Magazine article by Julia Gillard AC, 2015
Julia Gillard pays poignant tribute to her friend and mentor, the late Joan Kirner, Victoria’s first and only female premier.
Portrait 62
Autumn 2019
Magazine
National Photographic Portrait Prize 2019, the iconoclastic Japanese figures Yukio Mishima and Tamotsu Yato, Angélica Dass’ Humanæ project and more.
At easel
Magazine article by Tim Bonyhady, 2016
Tim Bonyhady recalls his experience as sitter for his close friend and former National Portrait Gallery Director, the late Andrew Sayers.
Poet of the Fleeting Moment
Magazine article by Simon Elliott, 2004
Mark Strizic's work crosses a broad spectrum of photographic fields including urban, industrial, commercial, and architectural photography.
Journey into Headspace...
Magazine article by Katherine Russell, 2007
The theme for the National Portrait Gallery's eighth exhibition of student portraiture was The Journey.
Mrs Cameron and the V&A
Magazine article by Magda Keaney, 2003
In March 2003 Magda Keaney travelled to London to join the photography section of the Victoria & Albert Museum for three months.
Humour’s warm refuge
Magazine article by Angus Trumble, 2017
Angus Trumble pays tribute to John Clarke.
All you can eat
Magazine article by Lauren Dalla, 2003
In February 2003 the National Portrait Gallery Circle of Friends brought Sir Robert Strong to Australia to present a series of lectures entitled The Artists & The Banquet- A History of Dining, which focused on the links between gardens and table decoration from the Renaissance to the Victorian Era.
Doodles of the Diva
Magazine article by Dr Sarah Engledow, 2010
Three tiny sketches of Dame Nellie Melba in the NPG collection were created by the artist who was to go on to paint the most imposing representation of the singer: Rupert Bunny.