Australia's former Cultural Attache to the USA, Ron Ramsey, describes the mood at the opening week of the revitalised American National Portrait Gallery.
Ron Ramsey, former Director of Cultural Relations at the Embassy of Australia interviewed NPG Washington Director, Marc Pachter, about their building renovations.
John Young, mezzotint engraver, studied under Valentine Green then worked with several of the painters who collaborated with Green, notably Benjamin West, John Hoppner and Johann Gerhard Huck.
1 portrait in the collection
Roslyn Oxley AM, gallerist and art dealer, was born Roslyn Walton, the daughter of John Walton, owner of the department store Waltons.
1 portrait in the collection
Henry Gibson Dan AM (1929–2020), universally known as Seaman Dan, was a Torres Strait Islander singer/songwriter who grew up on Thursday Island.
1 portrait in the collection
Anna Frances Walker (1830–1913), botanical artist and collector, was one of the thirteen children of Thomas Walker, a high-ranking colonial public servant, and his wife Anna Elizabeth, the daughter of merchant and landowner John Blaxland.
1 portrait in the collection
This exhibition is the first comprehensive survey of self-portraits in Australia, from the colonial period to the present
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2018
As a convict Thomas Bock was required to sketch executed murders for science; as a free man, fashionable society portraits.
Grace Carroll on the gendered world of the Wentworths.
Krysia Kitch reviews black chronicles at the National Portrait Gallery, London.
The art of Australia’s colonial women painters affords us an invaluable, alternative perspective on the nascent nation-building project.