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Michael Riley’s early portraits by Amanda Rowell.
Michael Desmond discusses the portrait of Senator Neville Bonner by Robert Campbell Jnr.
Sarah Engledow is seduced by the portraits and the connections between the artists and their subjects in the exhibition Impressions: Painting light and life.
Anne O’Hehir on the seductive power of the film still to reflect and shape ourselves and our cultural landscape.
Joanna Gilmore delights in the affecting drawings of Mathew Lynn.
Joanna Gilmour reflects on 25 years of collecting at the National Portrait Gallery.
Penelope Grist reminisces about the halcyon days of a print icon, before the infusion of the internet’s shades of grey.
Christopher Chapman highlights the inaugural hang of the new National Portrait Gallery building which opened in December 2008.
Christopher Chapman takes a trip through the doors of perception, arriving at the junction of surrealism and psychoanalysis.
Penelope Grist speaks to Robert McFarlane about shooting for the stars.
To accompany the exhibition Cecil Beaton: Portraits, held at the NPG in 2005, this article is drawn from Hugo Vickers's authorised biography, Cecil Beaton (1985).
Aircraft designer, pilot and entrepreneur, Sir Lawrence Wackett rejoins friends and colleagues on the walls of the National Portrait Gallery.
Emma Kindred examines fashion as a representation of self and social ritual in 19th-century portraiture.
Joanna Gilmour reflects on merging collections and challenging traditional assumptions around portraiture in WHO ARE YOU.