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John Schank Esq. RN, 1805

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Ted and Gina Gregg 2012

Sir Walter Ralegh (Raleigh)

Leura Dowling, c. 1861

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Malcolm Robertson in memory of William Thomas Robertson 2018
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program

King Henry VIII

Bill Dyson and an unknown model, c. 1903

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2008

Portrait of Bennilong, Native of New Holland, c. 1798

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by Ross A Field 2008

Master Johnny Day, Australian Champion Pedestrian, c. 1866

Purchased 2014

Les Darcy, Australian Middleweight Boxer, c. 1910

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2008

Chang the Chinese giant with his wife Kin Foo, c. 1871

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2010

Les Darcy, c. 1916

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2010

20th Australian XI Tour in Great Britain (The Invincibles) 1948 - Team Portrait, 1948

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2009

Ed E. Ford, 1909

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2011

Chang the Chinese giant with his manager cowering on the floor, c. 1871

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2010

Ned Kelly the Bushranger (from The Australasian Sketcher, 7 August 1880), 1880

Purchased 2002

Ola Cohn, c. 1934

Purchased 2011

Portrait of Bennilong, a Native of New Holland, c. 1810

Purchased 2014

Alfie Sands, c. 1940s

Purchased 2011

Margaret Robertson, c. 1852

Gift of Fiona Turner (née Robertson) and John Robertson 2011. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

Rodney Hall, 1960s

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2012

Charles Windeyer, 1830s

Gift of the Windeyer family 2009. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

Mr Mortimer Lewis, c. 1828

Gift of Leo Schofield AM 2002. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

New Year's Eve, Piccadilly Circus, London, c. 1952 (printed 2000)

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2001. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
The series 'David Moore: From Face to Face' was acquired as a gift of the artist and with financial assistance from Timothy Fairfax AC and L Gordon Darling AC CMG 2001.

Malcolm Williamson, 1948

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Diane Williamson and Marion Foote 2013

The Water Nymph, Miss Pansy Montague, c. 1905

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2016

Florrie Forde, c. 1930

Purchased 2017

Florrie Forde the Original Singer of "Tipperary", c. 1910

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2017

Murray Rose, 1956

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2011

William Howitt, n.d.

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Ted and Gina Gregg 2012

Robert Fitzgerald, c. 1860s (printed c. 1890s)

Gift in memory of Richard Kelynack Evans 2010. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

James Raymond, c. 1845-1850

Gift of Lydia Raymond Day 2010. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

Richard Rouse (copy of drawing by William Griffith), c. 1847

Gift of Pamela Glasson 2009
Collected by Leila Haigh (nee Rouse)

Tall-ship sailor, Torbay, Devon, c. 1954 (printed 2000)

Gift of the artist 2001. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
The series 'David Moore: From Face to Face' was acquired as a gift of the artist and with financial assistance from Timothy Fairfax AC and L Gordon Darling AC CMG 2001.

Portrait of Caroline Chisholm, c. 1851

Purchased 2001

Emily Spencer Wills, c. 1855

Gift of T S Wills Cooke 2014. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

Florrie Forde,

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2017

Brett Whiteley with an umbrella in Paris, c. 1989

Gift of Patrick Corrigan AM 2010. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

Eleanor Wingate (née Rouse), c. 1850

Gift of Pamela Glasson 2009
Collected by Leila Haigh (nee Rouse)

Study of male ballet dancers standing in a line, 2007

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of J Sages Family Trust 2009
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program

Norman, Sydney studio, c. 1909

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2008

Marjorie Lawrence, Paris, 1937

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2007

Barbara Blackman, c. 1953

Gift of Barbara Blackman 2004

Bar, Betoota races, Queensland, 1961 (printed 2000)

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2001. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
The series 'David Moore: From Face to Face' was acquired as a gift of the artist and with financial assistance from Timothy Fairfax AC and L Gordon Darling AC CMG 2001.

Miners, Pacific Colliery, Hunter Valley, New South Wales, c. 1949 (printed 2000)

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2001. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
The series 'David Moore: From Face to Face' was acquired as a gift of the artist and with financial assistance from Timothy Fairfax AC and L Gordon Darling AC CMG 2001.

Portrait of a young man, held to be John Robertson, c. 1852

Gift of Malcolm Robertson in memory of William Thomas Robertson 2018. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

George Sands, c. 1940s

Purchased 2011

William Robertson, c. 1852

Gift of Fiona Turner (née Robertson) and John Robertson 2011. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

Henri van Raatle, c. 1910

Purchased with funds provided by L Gordon Darling AC CMG 2009

Thea Proctor, c. 1896

Gift of Thea Bryant (Proctor) 2005

Sydney pedestrian, 1963 (printed 2000)

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2001. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
The series 'David Moore: From Face to Face' was acquired as a gift of the artist and with financial assistance from Timothy Fairfax AC and L Gordon Darling AC CMG 2001.

Battersea Fun Fair, London, c. 1952 (printed 2000)

Gift of the artist 2001. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
The series 'David Moore: From Face to Face' was acquired as a gift of the artist and with financial assistance from Timothy Fairfax AC and L Gordon Darling AC CMG 2001.

Life mask of John Bell, c. 1980

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Roslyn Lawson 2013

Gamaliel Butler, c. 1810

Purchased 2015

The Water Nymph, Miss Pansy Montague, c. 1905

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2016

Florrie Forde (in hat), c. 1905

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2017

Sir Ernest Fisk, n.d. (after 1937)

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Mrs Jane Fisk 2012

Professor John Le Gay Brereton, c. 1930

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the Windeyer family 2012

Mary Windeyer, 1850s

Gift of the Windeyer family 2009. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

William Charles Windeyer, c. 1857

Gift of the Windeyer family 2009

Russian oarsmen at Henley Royal Regatta, Oxfordshire, 1955 (printed 2000)

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2001. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
The series 'David Moore: From Face to Face' was acquired as a gift of the artist and with financial assistance from Timothy Fairfax AC and L Gordon Darling AC CMG 2001.

Gamaliel Butler, c. 1824

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Merv Shearman 2012

Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Gerard Smith, Governor of Western Australia, c. 1890

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2015

The Water Nymph, Miss Pansy Montague, c. 1905

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2016

John Dunn, c. 1880s

Purchased 2016

Florrie Forde,

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2017

James Macarthur, c. 1836-1838

Purchased 2019

Thomas Fitzherbert Hawkins, c. 1790

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Peter E.B. Mansell 2018

Frances (Fanny) Cato, 1933

Gift in memory of Frederick John Cato Kumm 2011. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

Brett Whiteley at Baudelaire's Grave, c. 1989

Gift of Patrick Corrigan AM 2010. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

William Charles Wentworth -The Australian Patriot, c. 1870

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2010

Study of female ballet dancers, 2007

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of J Sages Family Trust 2009
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program

Marjorie Lawrence, Amneris, 1951

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2007

Migrants arriving in Sydney, 1966 (printed 2000)

Gift of the artist 2001. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
The series 'David Moore: From Face to Face' was acquired as a gift of the artist and with financial assistance from Timothy Fairfax AC and L Gordon Darling AC CMG 2001.

Coalmine manager, Burragorang Valley, New South Wales, c. 1949 (printed 2000)

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2001. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
The series 'David Moore: From Face to Face' was acquired as a gift of the artist and with financial assistance from Timothy Fairfax AC and L Gordon Darling AC CMG 2001.

Maria Windeyer, c. 1860s

Gift of Joanna Russell Maher (née Windeyer) 2018

Clem Sands, c. 1940s

Purchased 2011

Thomas Woolner, c. 1865

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by L Gordon Darling AC CMG 2009

David Warren, c. 2004

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the Defence Science and Technology Organisation, Commonwealth Department of Defence 2005

Rolling Stones fans, Sydney, 1965 (printed 2000)

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2001. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
The series 'David Moore: From Face to Face' was acquired as a gift of the artist and with financial assistance from Timothy Fairfax AC and L Gordon Darling AC CMG 2001.

Traffic dodgers, Piccadilly Circus, London, c. 1953 (printed 2000)

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2001. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
The series 'David Moore: From Face to Face' was acquired as a gift of the artist and with financial assistance from Timothy Fairfax AC and L Gordon Darling AC CMG 2001.

La Milo in Lady Godiva procession, Coventry, 1907, c. 1907

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2016

Andrew B Charlton, 1930s

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2011

Pixie O'Harris, c. 1951

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by Peronelle Windeyer 2012

Richard Windeyer, 1840s

Gift of the Windeyer family 2009. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

William Charles Windeyer, 1856

Gift of the Windeyer family 2009

Portrait of Mrs Fairfax, n.d.

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of John Fairfax Holdings Ltd 2002
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program

Nuns at Lourdes Centenary, France, 1958 (printed 2000)

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2001. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
The series 'David Moore: From Face to Face' was acquired as a gift of the artist and with financial assistance from Timothy Fairfax AC and L Gordon Darling AC CMG 2001.

Portrait of Harriet Swan, c. 1842

Purchased with funds provided by L Gordon Darling AC CMG and Marilyn Darling AC 2013

Henry Wade, c. 1841

Gift of the Wade and Hannah families 2013

The Water Nymph, Miss Pansy Montague, c. 1905

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2016

Victor Richardson, 1920s

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2017

Florrie Forde,

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2017

David Unaipon, n.d.

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2011

Captain Franklin RN, 1825

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Ted and Gina Gregg 2012

Sarah Tuckfield, c. 1854

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the Freer Tuckfield family 2010
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program

Jenny Howard, c. 1930s

Purchased 2017

Jane Kennerley (née Rouse), c. 1850

Gift of Pamela Glasson 2009
Collected by Leila Haigh (nee Rouse)

Dr Solander, 1772

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2009

Chelsea Flower Show, London, c. 1956 (printed 2000)

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2001. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
The series 'David Moore: From Face to Face' was acquired as a gift of the artist and with financial assistance from Timothy Fairfax AC and L Gordon Darling AC CMG 2001.

Surry Hills boy 1, 1948 (printed 2000)

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2001. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
The series 'David Moore: From Face to Face' was acquired as a gift of the artist and with financial assistance from Timothy Fairfax AC and L Gordon Darling AC CMG 2001.

Elizabeth Read (née Archer), c. 1853

Purchased 2019

Dave Sands, c. 1940s

Purchased 2011

Gladys Moncrieff album,

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2008

Bar Billiards, Lancelin, Western Australia, 1963 (printed 2000)

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2001. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
The series 'David Moore: From Face to Face' was acquired as a gift of the artist and with financial assistance from Timothy Fairfax AC and L Gordon Darling AC CMG 2001.

Traffic dodgers, Piccadilly Circus, London, c. 1953 (printed 2000)

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2001. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
The series 'David Moore: From Face to Face' was acquired as a gift of the artist and with financial assistance from Timothy Fairfax AC and L Gordon Darling AC CMG 2001.

Elizabeth Walford, c. 1873

Gift of the Estate of Leslie Walford AM 2013

La Milo (Miss Pansy Montague), c. 1905

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2016

Anna Josepha King, c. 1826-1832

Purchased 2018

Margaret Robertson, c. 1855

Gift of Fiona Turner (née Robertson) and John Robertson 2011. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

Richard Windeyer, 1830s

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the Windeyer family 2009
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program

Group photograph with Gladys Moncrieff,

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2008

Priest at Lourdes Centenary, France, 1958 (printed 2000)

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2001. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
The series 'David Moore: From Face to Face' was acquired as a gift of the artist and with financial assistance from Timothy Fairfax AC and L Gordon Darling AC CMG 2001.

Portrait of Julia Swan, c. 1842

Purchased with funds provided by L Gordon Darling AC CMG and Marilyn Darling AC 2013

The Water Nymph, Miss Pansy Montague, c. 1905

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2016

Florrie Forde (in blue dress), c. 1918

Purchased 2017

Francis Tuckfield, c. 1854

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the Freer Tuckfield family 2010
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program

Sylvia Breamer, c. 1917-1919

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2017

Mary Hassall (née Rouse), c. 1850

Gift of Pamela Glasson 2009
Collected by Leila Haigh (nee Rouse)

Alfred Simpson, c. 1866

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by L Gordon Darling AC CMG 2014

John O'Shanassy, c. 1860

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2008

Christine Audrey Pecket painting 'Self Portrait in a Brown Coat at the Sydney Technical College', 1937

Gift of Suzanne Playfoot 2023

Baseball fans, Yankee Stadium, New York, 1956 (printed 2000)

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2001. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
The series 'David Moore: From Face to Face' was acquired as a gift of the artist and with financial assistance from Timothy Fairfax AC and L Gordon Darling AC CMG 2001.

Sugarcane cutter, Murwillumbah, New South Wales, 1966 (printed 2000)

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2001. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
The series 'David Moore: From Face to Face' was acquired as a gift of the artist and with financial assistance from Timothy Fairfax AC and L Gordon Darling AC CMG 2001.

Martha Knox, c. 1855

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Dr Peter Halliday in memory of Norah Knox 2010

Norman and "Peter Ward", c. 1906

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2008

Cray fishermen, Lancelin, Western Australia, 1963 (printed 2000)

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2001. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
The series 'David Moore: From Face to Face' was acquired as a gift of the artist and with financial assistance from Timothy Fairfax AC and L Gordon Darling AC CMG 2001.

Traffic dodgers, Piccadilly Circus, London, c. 1953 (printed 2000)

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2001. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
The series 'David Moore: From Face to Face' was acquired as a gift of the artist and with financial assistance from Timothy Fairfax AC and L Gordon Darling AC CMG 2001.

William Walford, c. 1873

Gift of the Estate of Leslie Walford AM 2013

Marie Lohr, c. 1908

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2017

John Vickery, c. 1929

Gift of Karen Vickery 2022

Russell Sands, n.d.

Purchased 2011

William Robertson jnr, c. 1852

Gift of Fiona Turner (née Robertson) and John Robertson 2011. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

Mickey Johnson, c. 1896

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2010

William Charles Windeyer aged six, 1840

Gift of the Windeyer family 2009. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

Gladys Moncrieff, 1963

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2008

Mrs Elizabeth Lewis, c. 1830

Gift of Leo Schofield AM 2002. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

Peasant woman, the Dolomites, Italy, 1951 (printed 2000)

Gift of the artist 2001. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
The series 'David Moore: From Face to Face' was acquired as a gift of the artist and with financial assistance from Timothy Fairfax AC and L Gordon Darling AC CMG 2001.

William Beach, 1888

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2013

Horatio Spencer Wills, c. 1855

Gift of T S Wills Cooke 2014. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

The Water Nymph, Miss Pansy Montague, c. 1905

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2016

Christian Waller, c. 1920s

Gift of an anonymous donor 2022

Florrie Forde, c. 1915

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2017

HRH Prince Alfred, c. 1868

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Ted and Gina Gregg 2012

Comte de Lacepede, c. 1830

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2012

Mary Windeyer on the verandah at Tomago, NSW, c. 1880s

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the Windeyer family 2012

Ernest Hutcheson, n.d.

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2010

Mary Hassall (née Rouse), c. 1850

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Pamela Glasson 2009
Collected by Leila Haigh (nee Rouse)

Sarah Simpson, c. 1866

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by L Gordon Darling AC CMG 2014

Livingston Hopkins, n.d.

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2008

Dublin Horse Show spectators, 1956 (printed 2000)

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2001. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
The series 'David Moore: From Face to Face' was acquired as a gift of the artist and with financial assistance from Timothy Fairfax AC and L Gordon Darling AC CMG 2001.

Sir Robert Menzies, c. 1963-1964

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2014

A nation mourns the loss, c. 1861

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2020

Edward Knox, c. 1855

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Dr Peter Halliday in memory of Norah Knox 2010

Study of a pair of ballet dancers, 2007

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of J Sages Family Trust 2009
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program

John Burton, 1951

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Mr and Mrs John Burton 2007

Pitjantjatjara schoolboy, Ernabella, South Australia, 1963 (printed 2000)

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2001. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
The series 'David Moore: From Face to Face' was acquired as a gift of the artist and with financial assistance from Timothy Fairfax AC and L Gordon Darling AC CMG 2001.

Traffic dodgers, Piccadilly Circus, London, c. 1953 (printed 2000)

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2001. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
The series 'David Moore: From Face to Face' was acquired as a gift of the artist and with financial assistance from Timothy Fairfax AC and L Gordon Darling AC CMG 2001.

Binem Grunstein, c. 1948

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Harry Grunstein and Sarah Grunstein in memory of their father 2015

Martha Cassell, late 1840s to early 1850s

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2018

Edward Henty, late 19th century

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Tim Clark 2018

Billy Hughes paperweight, n.d.

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Ric Techow and Jenny Techow-Coleman in memory of Roy and Bet Techow 2001

William St Leonards Robertson (standing) beside an unidentified man, early 1880s

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Malcolm Robertson in memory of William Thomas Robertson 2018
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program

Willie Edward Harney, aged 18, c. 1913

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2012

Willie Edward Harney, aged 18, c. 1913

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2012

William St Leonards Robertson, c. 1865

Gift of Fiona Turner (née Robertson) and John Robertson 2011. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

Elizabeth Henrietta Fitzgerald (née Rouse), c. 1850

Gift of Pamela Glasson 2009
Collected by Leila Haigh (nee Rouse)

John Passmore AC, 1973

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Mrs Doris Passmore 2003

Dr. Arthur Martin a'Beckett, c. 1840

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2014

Maria Jane Dowling, c. 1862

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Malcolm Robertson in memory of William Thomas Robertson 2018
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program

Reverend John Allen Manton, President of the Australasian Conference and Governor of Horton College, Tasmania, c. 1855

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Ted and Gina Gregg 2012

Possibly the Right Rev Dr Lawrence Bonaventure Sheil OSF, n.d.

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2010

The Lawn at Flemington on Melbourne Cup Day, c. 1889

Purchased 2009

Sir Henry Parkes, c. 1889

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Adrian McGlusky 2013

Album of portraits of family of William Taylor Macpherson, c. 1880

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the family of FW Macpherson 2012

Mrs Bonney flying from Australia to South Africa via Siam. Singapore 1937 (in her aeroplane, "My Little Ship II), 1937

Purchased 2012

Dame Nellie Melba,

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2007

Fanny Jane Marlay, c. 1841

Purchased 2013

Maria Dowling and her children Leura, Bessie, Selina, Jane, Jack, Ben and Joe Dowling [Selina Dowling, Jane Dowling, Maria Jane Dowling (née Ware), John Ware Dowling, Joseph Dowling, Benjamin Dowling, Elizabeth (Bessie) Dowling, Leura Dowling], c. 1859

Gift of Malcolm Robertson in memory of William Thomas Robertson 2018. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

Rev. Andrew Mitchell Ramsay, 1865

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by L Gordon Darling AC CMG 2009

Bill Dyson and Rose, Northwood, c. 1903

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2008

Sir Walter Murdoch, 1920s (printed later)

Purchased 2012

Tom Wills, c. 1857 (printed c. 1905-1910)

Gift of T S Wills Cooke 2014. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

Mrs Bonney flying from Australia to South Africa via Siam. Singapore 1937 (full length portrait), 1937

Purchased 2012

George Selth Coppin, c. 1863

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2010

Joseph Dalton Hooker, c. 1880s

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by L Gordon Darling AC CMG 2009

A G Stephens, c. 1910 (printed later)

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2012

Captain John Lort Stokes, c. 1841

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2013

Evonne Goolagong, 1970s

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2011

Thomas Wentworth Wills, c. 1859

Gift of T S Wills Cooke 2014. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

John Frost, 1839

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2009

Ned Kelly death mask, date unknown

Collection: National Portrait Gallery Study Collection, Canberra
Gift of John Molony 2018

Rosalie Kunoth, 1953 printed 1958

Purchased 2016

The Sculling Match at Sydney for the Championship of the World, 1877

Purchased 2015

William Dampier, c. 1780

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2016

Queen Victoria in mourning, with a portrait of Prince Albert, c. 1862

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2020

James Horatio Nelson Cassell, late 1840s to early 1850s

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2018

Professor David of Antarctic Expedition, c. 1910

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2012

John Buckley Castieu, Lionel Lindsay and Norman Lindsay, c. 1897

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2008

Marjorie Jackson, 1953

Purchased 2011

Jacques Casteau and Norman, Heidelberg, c. 1899

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2008

The people's champion, Mr Lang, c. 1927

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2013

Francis Russell Nixon, c. 1845-1855

Purchased 2009

Elizabeth Rouse (copy of drawing by William Griffith), c. 1847

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Pamela Glasson 2012
Collected by Leila Haigh (nee Rouse)

Portrait of Dr John Hawkesworth, c. 1770

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by the Liangis family 2018

Maie Casey, 1953

Purchased 2016

Jane Franklin, c. 1866-1875

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2018

Joseph Banks and Dr Solander, 1778

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Gina and Ted Gregg 2010

Isabella Louisa Parry, c. 1826

Purchased 2014

The Aboriginal community of Lake Tyers, Gippsland, c. 1890

Purchased 2010

Men of the Day No. 57 "Old Bones" (Sir Richard Owen), 1873

Purchased 2015

Archbishop Vaughan, c. 1880

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2013

Captain Sir John Franklin, Kt, KCH, KRG, DCL, FRS & c. Commander of the Arctic Expedition, 1845, c. 1847

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Ted and Gina Gregg 2012

Joe Darling (image plate from The Empire's Cricketers. London: Fine Art Society), 1905

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2017

Princess Alexandra of Denmark (later Queen Alexandra), c. 1862

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2020

Cook, n.d.

Gift of Ted and Gina Gregg 2012

David Brown Dignam [and] George Barrington drawn from the life, 1777

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2016

Portrait of the Seventh Earl of Hopetoun, the Rt Hon. John Hope, 1901

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2008

Scrapbook page featuring portraits of Fred Lowry and Frank Gardiner, c. 1863

Purchased 2008

Australia v England, 1887

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2009

Dr HV Evatt, Albert Namatjira and Dame Mary Gilmore having a meal, c. 1950s

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by Marilyn Darling AC 2008

Captain Matthew Flinders RN, 1814

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Ted and Gina Gregg 2012

The Memoirs of George Barrington, 1790

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by Ross A Field 2008

Captain Matthew Flinders RN, 1814

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2014

First High Court of Australia, c. 1903

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2011

'The Australian Cricketers' from The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News June 1882, page 1

Norman, Kodak, Rose, J.F Archibald, model and John Barr, c. 1913

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2008

Marianne Egan and her children Gertrude Evans Cahuac and Henry William Cahuac, 1857

Purchased with funds provided by the Liangis family 2014

Edward Knox Jnr and Thomas Forster Knox., c. 1855

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Dr Peter Halliday in memory of Norah Knox 2010

Percy, Ted Dyson and Bill Dyson, c. 1899

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2008

Martha Mary Robertson with her child William St Leonards Robertson, c. 1865

Gift of Fiona Turner (née Robertson) and John Robertson 2011. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

Ruby Linsday, Will Dyson, Norman Lindsay, c. 1910

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2008

Ted Dyson, Bill Dyson (with pipe) and Percy, c. 1899

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2008

Norman and Jack, c. 1903

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2008

Horace Spencer Wills and Cedric Spencer Wills, c. 1859

Gift of T S Wills Cooke 2014. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

Thomas and John Clarke, bushrangers, photographed in Braidwood Gaol, 1867

Purchased 2019

Ron and Valerie Taylor, n.d.

Gift of Valerie Taylor and Ron Taylor AM 2006

'The Australian Cricketers' from The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News June 1882, page 2

The Haigh family, c. 1996

Gift of the Haigh family 2005

Thomas Sutcliffe Mort and his wife Theresa, c. 1847

Purchased 2001

Dowling family portrait [Selina, Jane, Leura and Elizabeth (Bessie) Dowling], c. 1862

Gift of Malcolm Robertson in memory of William Thomas Robertson 2018. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

The Sands Brothers, c. 1940s

Purchased 2011

Ruby, Norman, Pearl, Percy, Reg, Bill Dyson and Mary in Creswick garden, c. 1899

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2008

The Bushranger Tragedy (from The Australasian Sketcher, 23 November 1878), 1878

Purchased 2003

Melodrama..., c. 1900

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2008

'The Australian Cricketers' from The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News June 1882, 1882

Purchased 2009

Self Portrait #2, 1947/2007

Purchased 2022

William at Queensland University, 1968/2008

Gift of the artist 2022. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

Set of 129 Royal Christmas Cards and three miscellaneous items, 1951-2001

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Patricia Tryon Macdonald 2005
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program

Delegates to the Constitutional Convention, Sydney 1891 from Australasia Illustrated, 1891

Purchased 2009

Douglas Frew Waterhouse

Australian entomologist and inventer of the Aerogard insect repellent, Douglas Frew Waterhouse describes the evolution of his career.

Unknown drawer

Dempsey’s People curator David Hansen chronicles a research tale replete with serendipity, adventure and Tasmanian tigers.

Sir Henry Barkly

An interview with former National Portrait Gallery Director, Andrew Sayers, who describes the portrait of Sir Henry Barkly by Thomas Clark.

Lucinda with stung eye, 2016

Portrait 61

Max Dupain's unknown portrait subjects, phrenologist Madame Sibly, Indigenous-European relationships, Thomas Gainsborough and more.

Captain Cook

An exploration of the role of artists such as John Webber who, whilst a member of Cook’s crew over many voyages, created paintings and drawings of the situations and people the explorers encountered.

Portrait of Louis Claude de Saulces de Freycinet, c. 1812

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2018

Tim Flannery

Recorded 2016

Post-show blues, 2019

Robert, 2010

Piper, the native who accompanied Major Mitchell in his expedition to the interior, c. 1836

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2016

Katie and Jaylen Cornish, 2012

An Arctic Time Signature

Finalist, MDPA 2015

Bust of Frank McIlwraith, 1937

Gift of the Estate of the late Barbara Tribe 2009

Barbara Robison, 1935

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Rex Dupain 2003
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program

David Malouf

Recorded 2016

David Gist

David Gist is an Acquisitions Officer at the Australian War Memorial, the most recent position in a career spanning a broad range of fields in the museums sector.

The Streetons’ rich serenade

If music be the food of love

Portrait of Sir Joseph Banks, president of the Royal Society, 1812

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2010

Sir Joseph Banks, 1802

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Gina and Ted Gregg 2010

Australia's Creative Diaspora

Paris based Australian photographer and filmmaker Nathalie Latham has an ongoing interest in the creative achievements of other Australian artists living in various locations around the globe.

Piper, the native who accompanied Major Mitchell in his expedition to the interior of N.S.W., 1836

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Dr Robert Edwards AO 1999
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program

Ourou-Maré, dit Bull-Dog par les Anglais, Jeune Guerrier de la Tribu des Gwé-Gal, 1807-1817

Purchased 2009

Sir John Eccles, 1959

Gift of an anonymous donor 2007

Robert Brown, c. 1835

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2014

The sculptor (George Lambert and Arthur Murch), c. 1929

Purchased 2015

Vulnerability

London-based artist Ron Mueck creates an intense awareness of the different ways in which we experience vulnerability and a strong sense of tenderness is never far away.

Tamara Tchinarova, 1938

Gift of Rex Dupain 2003. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

George Lambert

An examination of the life and times of George Lambert through the gesture and pose in his self portrait. 

Manning Clark, 1985

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2005
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program

Margel and Tarquin, Canberra, c. 1945

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by the Ross family in memory of Noel and Enid Eliot 2014

Do you know more?

The National Portrait Gallery is calling on family history enthusiasts and amateur historians to help reveal more about the people in Dempsey’s People: A folio of British street portraits from 1824-1844.

George Lambert, c. 1929

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2015

Observation point

I work with portraiture as a way to explore the nuances and complexities of contemporary selfhood and subjectivity.

Rarely Everage

The exhibition begins with Barry's childhood in Camberwell, Melbourne and chronicles his days as a struggling actor in Australia and England, his creation of characters including Barry McKenzie, Dame Edna Everage, Sandy Stone and Sir Les Patterson

John Richard Tindale, 1841

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2003

Mary Tindale, 1841

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2003

Jenny Sages

The exhibition Sages examines the process of portrait making through four large-scale portraits of women by Jenny Sages, paired with intimate preparatory drawings.

Albert Namatjira, c. 1954-1958 (printed 2017)

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2017

Depth of Field

Over the last five years the National Portrait Gallery has developed a collection of portrait photographs that reflects both the strength and diversity of Australian achievement as well as the talents of our photographers.

The World of Thea Proctor

The World of Thea Proctor is the Portrait Gallery's second major biographical exhibition - that is, the second exhibition to focus exclusively on the life and work of a single individual

Calling all family history buffs

The National Portrait Gallery is calling on family history enthusiasts and amateur historians to tell it more about the people in its new show, Dempsey’s People: A folio of British street portraits from 1824-1844.

Mirror With A Memory

This is the first major exhibition to examine photographic portraiture in Australia, from its beginnings in the early 1840s to the present day

Dancer

From letting loose in the loungeroom to enthralling audiences on stage, this exhibition celebrates dance and dancers.

Husbands and Wives

'I have just been to my dressing case to take a peep at you.

Australia and the Nobel Prize

This unique exhibition will give an insight into the private lives, pursuits and work of all the Nobel laureates associated with Australia

Heads of the People

For Tom Roberts - Australia's best nineteenth-century portrait painter - neither a proto-national portrait gallery nor more popular collections of portrait heads, were sufficient public celebrations for the notables of Australian history

Masters of Fare

Masters of fare: chefs, winemakers, providores celebrates men and women who have championed the unique culinary characteristics and produce of Australia, enriching our lives with new ideas and new flavours over the past forty years.

Portrait jug of Stanley Melbourne Bruce, 1925-1928

Purchased 2006

Here and there

Nathalie Latham's exhibition Australia's Creative Diaspora explores Australians, in the arts, who live and work internationally.

Rick Amor

Rick Amor, noblest yet most unaffected of contemporary Australian portraitists, is also a painter of enigmatic, ominous landscapes, seascapes and cityscapes that haunt the viewer like dreams, dimly-recalled.

Heather Corrigan

The lovely faces in my photograph are that of my best friends. Some I have only known for a couple of months, others for most of my life. For me, recreating a family portrait with individuals I love was supremely important. I was reconstructing a photo of people I cherish with people I adore.

Leigh Bowery, 1984

Gift of Claudia Hyles, Dr Christiane Lawin-Bruessel, Gwenda Matthews, Gael Newton, Anne O'Hehir, Susan Smith and Dominic Thomas in memory of our friend, Robyn Beeche 2016

Sideshow Alley

Death masks, post-mortem drawings and other spooky and disquieting portraits... Come and see how portraits of infamous Australians were used in the 19th century.

Elegance in exile

Elegance in exile is an exhibition surveying the work of Richard Read senior, Thomas Bock, Thomas Griffiths Wainewright and Charles Rodius: four artists who, though exiled to Australia as convicts, created many of the most significant and elegant portraits of the colonial period.

Little treasures

The acquisition of the ivory miniatures of Mortimer and Mrs Lewis.

Time and light

This sample of 56 photographs takes in some of the smallest photographs we own and some of the largest, some of the earliest and some of the most recent, as well as multiple photographic processes from daguerreotypes to digital media.

William Francis King, 'The Flying Pieman', c. 1869

Gift of the family of FW Macpherson 2010

Primed

Seventeen of Australia’s thirty prime ministers to date are represented in the contrasting sizes, moods and mediums of these portraits.

Georg von Neumayer, c. 1860

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by Graham Smith 2009

Mr and Mrs Case, 1864

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2010

Richard Avedon People media information

Press releases and images downloads for media.

Life class

Barbara Blackman reflects on her experiences as a life model.

Anna Meares, 2018

Commissioned with funds provided by King & Wood Mallesons 2018

Sir Henry Barkly, c. 1863

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2010

Nicholas Harding

Nicholas Harding: 28 portraits features paintings of Robert Drewe, John Bell and Hugo Weaving alongside gorgeously coloured recent oil portraits, delicate gouaches and bold ink and charcoal drawings.

The house, the horse, the wife and the offspring

Joanna Gilmour writes about the portraiture of the colonial artist William Nicholas.

Lady Barkly, 1863

Purchased 2014

Martha Kermode, c. 1840

Purchased 2008. The original frame for this work was donated to the National Portrait Gallery of Australia by the National Gallery of Victoria 2009.

Robert Kermode, c. 1840

Purchased 2008. The original frame for this work was donated to the National Portrait Gallery of Australia by the National Gallery of Victoria 2009.

Humdinger

At a meeting by teleconference of the National Portrait Gallery Foundation last week, I found myself reporting that our forthcoming exhibition So Fine is going to be “a humdinger,” whereupon Tim Fairfax chuckled and said that he hadn’t heard that expression for years.

Uncommon Australians

This exhibition showcases portraits acquired through the generosity of the National Portrait Gallery’s Founding Patrons, L Gordon Darling AC CMG and Marilyn Darling AC.

First Ladies

First Ladies profiles women who have achieved noteworthy firsts over the past 100 years.

Australian of the Year

The Australian of the Year Awards have often provoked controversy about who is selected and whether their achievements are remarkable.

Catholic clergymen from the Diocese of Adelaide, c. 1862

Purchased 2018

Australian Visit

The exhibition will include works of art from the NPG Canberra's permanent collection with some inward loans and aims to highlight the achievements of notable Australians.

Dupain detective

Johanna McMahon revels in history and mystery in pursuit of a suite of unknown portrait subjects.

Northern exposure

Phil Manning celebrates a century of Brisbane photographic portraiture.

The Writer: Peter Goldsworthy, 2018

Commissioned with funds provided by Jillian Broadbent AO and Dr Helen Nugent AO 2018.

A rogue's calling card

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

Philanthropic donations enable otherwise unobtainable acquisition

A magnanimous portrait of Helena Rubinstein has been acquired for the National Portrait Gallery’s collection.

Chance encounter

Joanna Gilmour explores the life and times of one of Melbourne's early socialites, Jessie Eyre Williams.

An Australian story

In his speech launching the new National Portrait Gallery building on 3 December 2008, then Prime Minister Kevin Rudd set the Gallery in a national and historical context.

Strutt your stuff

Matthew Jones on the upshot of a St Kilda Road outrage.

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.

Grateful admiration and brotherly love

In the earliest stages of the Great War, the Royal Pavilion in Brighton was turned into a military hospital, and arrangements made there to accommodate the different dietary and other requirements of Hindu, Sikh and Muslim patients.

The Wentworths – Hidden in Plain Sight

Grace Carroll on the gendered world of the Wentworths.

Some women you may not know

‘Everybody’s lives are built by so many influences, and for me, it is writers, artists and activists who have influenced how I think about the world.’

Pen power

Politics and personae in the portraiture of TextaQueen by Jane Raffan.

Icons and imagery

Alison Weir explores the National Portrait Gallery, London and the BP Portrait Award to find what makes a good painted portrait - past and present.

Apollo's breath

Christopher Chapman delights in the intimacy of Robert Mapplethorpe's photography

The life of Bryant

Tenille Hands explores a portrait prize gifted to the National Screen and Sound Archive.

Nocturnal animals

Joanna Gilmour explores the enticing urban shadows cast by artists Martin Lewis and Edward Hopper.

Dempsey's people

Those of you who are active in social media circles may be aware that through the past week I have unleashed a blitz on Facebook and Instagram in connection with our new winter exhibition Dempsey’s People: A Folio of British Street Portraits, 1824−1844.

Depth of Field

The exhibition Depth of Field displays a selection of portrait photographs that reflect the strength and diversity of Australian achievement.

Black and white history

English artist Benjamin Duterrau took up the cause of the Indigenous peoples of Tasmania with his detailed and sympathetic renderings.

The story of us

Gallery directors Karen Quinlan and Tony Ellwood talk to Penelope Grist about the NPG and NGV collaborative exhibition, Who Are You: Australian Portraiture.

Reflections

All that fall: Sacrifice, life and loss in the First World War exhibition co-curators Dr Anne Sanders and Dr Christopher Chapman reflect on the evolution of the Gallery’s Anzac Centenary exhibition.

The artist, the scholar and the gentleman

Kwon Hyeeun introduces Korean portraits of Kang Sehwang, and five generations of the Kang family.

Pop goes the preconception

A National Portrait Gallery, London exhibition redefines portraiture, shifting the focus towards a new perspective on Pop Art.

The fat of the land

Sir Sidney Kidman (1857-1935) is inscribed in Australian legend as the ‘Cattle King’. 

Mugshots

A toast to the acquisition of an unconventional new portrait of former Prime Minister, Stanley Melbourne Bruce.

Meeting by Murder

The story behind two colonial portraits; a lithograph of captain and convict John Knatchbull and newspaper illustration of Robert Lowe, Viscount Sherbrooke.

Suave

Charles Haddon Chambers the Australian-born playboy playwright settled permanently in London in 1880 but never lost his Australian stance when satirising the English.

Tiny Trace of a Colonial Giant

At just 7.8 x 6.2 cm, the daguerreotype of Thomas Sutcliffe Mort and his wife Theresa is one of the smallest works in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery.

Pop poet

Dr Anne Sanders previews the works in the new focus exhibition Paul Kelly and The Portraits.

Picture this...

This edited version of a speech by Andrew Sayers examines some of the antecedents of the National Portrait Gallery and set out the ideas behind the modern Gallery and its collection.

Adam’s Prize Apples

Pamela Gerrish Nunn explores New Zealand’s premium award for portraiture.

Hired guns, bounty hunters and horse whisperers

Jude Rae contemplates the portrait commission.

The bright-eyed Mariner

Rethinking foundational histories

A focus on Indigenous-European relationships underpins Facing New Worlds. By Kate Fullagar.

Past present

Krysia Kitch celebrates Oodgeroo Noonuccal.

Worth her salt

Jerrold Nathan's portrait of Jessie Street shows the elegant side of a many-faceted lady.

Final frame

Karl James reflects on soldier portraiture during the Great War.

Birds of a feather

Charting a path from cockatiel to finch, Annette Twyman explores her family portraits and stories.

Off grid

Aimee Board ventures within and beyond to consider two remarkable new Gallery acquisitions.

Self-effacing

Michael Wardell samples the fare in the University of Queensland National Self-portrait Prize.

Moving still

Anne O’Hehir on the seductive power of the film still to reflect and shape ourselves and our cultural landscape.

High & Bligh

Joanna Gilmour explores the 1790 portrait of William Bligh by Robert Dodd.

Friends and Acquaintances

Dr. Sarah Engledow discusses a collection of drawings and prints by the Victorian artist Rick Amor acquired in 2005.

Flesh, figure and rock

Aimee Board traces Judy Cassab’s path to the Australian outback, arriving at the junction of inspiration and abstraction.

Home and away

Sir William Dobell painted the portraits of Sir Charles Lloyd Jones and Sir Hudson Fysh, who did much to promote the image of Australia in this country and abroad.

Sea legged frogs

Joanna Gilmour describes some of the stories of the individuals and incidents that define French exploration of Australia and the Pacific.

History

How the National Portrait Gallery and its unique collection came to be

Demimonde liaisons

Jane Raffan feasts on modernity’s entrée in the Belle Époque theatre of the demimonde.

Secure the shadow ere the substance fade

The tragic tale of Tom Wills, the ‘inventor’ of Australian Rules Football.

Through thick and thin

Sarah Engledow likes the manifold mediums of Nicholas Harding’s portraiture.

Regarding Henrys

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

The Thyssen Art Macabre

Books seldom make me angry but this one did. At first, I was powerfully struck by the uncanny parallels that existed between the Mellons of Pittsburgh and the Thyssens of the Ruhr through the same period, essentially the last quarter of the nineteenth century.

The shipwright's arms

Joanna Gilmour explores the life and times of convict-turned-artist William Buelow Gould.

Material culture

The Rajah Quilt’s narrative promptings are as intriguing as the textile is intricate.

The Bare story

Curator, Penny Grist, reveals how this exhibition came to be

Nicholas Harding: 28 Portraits

Sarah Engledow looks at three decades of Nicholas Harding's portraiture.

Christmas Island

This is my last Trumbology before, in a little more than a week from now, I pass to my successor Karen Quinlan the precious baton of the Directorship of the National Portrait Gallery.