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In a good paddock

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.

Capturing Cook

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.

Thrown together

Shipmates for years, James Cook and Joseph Banks each kept a journal but neither man shed light on their relationship.

To the end of the earth

The portrait of Dr. Johann Reinhold Forster and his son George Forster from 1780, is one of the oldest in the NPG's collection.

How to be a boy

Christopher Chapman profiles Chris Lilley, actor and creator of Angry Boys.

Rock art

Andrew Mayo talks to three of Australia’s most prominent and prolific music photographers — Martin Philbey, Kane Hibberd and Daniel Boud — about the challenges and inspiration behind their craft.

Portrait of a Modernist

The National Portrait Gallery acquired the self-portrait by Grace Cossington Smith in 2003.

Northern exposure

Phil Manning celebrates a century of Brisbane photographic portraiture.

20 20

Sarah Engledow picks some favourites from a decade of the National Photographic Portrait Prize.

First encounters

Representations of the inhabitants of the new world expose the complexities of the colonisers' intentions.

Two pair

Brothers on farms

Malcolm Robertson tells the family history of one of Australia's earliest patrons of the arts, his Scottish born great great great grandfather, William Robertson.

Post digital

Tegan McAuley looks at the evolution of video portraiture.

Elle on wheels

Lucy Quinn compares the approaches of three photographers lured to the action and culture of roller derby.

A rogue's calling card

Joanna Gilmour explores the stories behind the ninteenth-century carte de visites of bushrangers Frank Gardiner and Fred Lowry.

Regarding Henrys

Sarah Engledow ponders the divergent legacies of Messrs Kendall and Lawson.