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William Robinson, 2016 by Mark Mohell

William Robinson

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Unique in the world, perhaps, is a bronze sculpture that fuses the age-old human portrait bronze tradition, and the later genre of the bronze pug figurine: that’d be William Robinson’s Self-portrait with pug.

Pimple, 2007 by Yang Na

Yang Na

Featured Artists

Born 1983, Chongqing, Sichuan Province. Lives and works in Beijing.

Graham Sylvester's crowd, Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras, 1983 William Yang

From riot to revelry

Nearest & Dearest

Pride, protest, panache

Kate

Kate

The two portraits that I've chosen to compare and contrast and to bring together a self portrait by John Brack in 1955, and William Yang, Self Portrait #2.

East Village, Beijing no. 20 (Zhang Huan, 12 Square Metres), 1994 by Rong Rong

Featured Artists

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Find out more about six of the artists represented in the Go Figure exhibition. Fang Lijun, Liu Wei, Yang Na, Yu Hong, Rong Rong and Zhang Xiaogang.

William Robertson and Martha Mary Robertson

A charming prospect

Nearest & Dearest

Family fortunes

William Bligh

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Welcome home, Captain Bligh

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William Bligh

Welcome home, Captain Bligh

Archived media releases 2015

The National Portrait Gallery will, next Tuesday, unveil an exciting new acquisition of irrefutable importance to all Australians. Portrait of William Bligh, in master’s uniform c. 1776, attributed to John Webber, is one of the earliest portraits of the contentious, historical figure, and extends the Gallery’s remarkable collection of early colonial portraits.

Angus Trumble and David Hansen

National Portrait Gallery Director's tenure ends in triumph

30 November 2018

Archived media releases 2018

National Portrait Gallery Director Angus Trumble is ending his five-year tenure with a flourish, after announcing that Gallery publication Dempsey’s People: A Folio of British Street Portraits 1824-1844 has been awarded the 2018 William MB Berger Prize for British Art History.

The Lambert

The Lambert

Barbering manuals of the turn of the century might describe this style as a ‘Van Dyck’, named after the Dutch painter Anthony van Dyck (1599–1641) who is known to have adopted this look.

All together now, 2012 by Clare Thackway, video: 9 minutes

All together now, 2012

by Clare Thackway

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Finalist, iD2012

Studio self-portrait, 2018 Vincent Namatjira OAM

Never let you go

Nearest & Dearest

Country, culture, connection

Sir Charles Kingsford Smith and Captain Charles Ulm

Extraordinary airmen make aviation history

Charles is my wingman

Uli Sigg

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Portraits from the Sigg collection, from 1979 to the present including painting, sculpture, photography, video and installation.

Portrait of Mrs Tom Roberts

Who is Lillie Roberts?

Talented wife for a talented husband

Yellow portrait (portrait of Alex Jelinek)

The choices of a modern woman

It's Complicated

When opposites attract

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