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Benjamin West (1738-1820), an American painter, arrived in England in 1763 after a Grand Tour in Italy and soon won acclaim.
1 portrait in the collection
Purchased 2010
John West (1809–1873), clergyman and newspaper editor, was accepted for service in Van Diemen’s Land by the Colonial Missionary Society in 1838.
1 portrait in the collection
Benjamin Law, sculptor and lithographer, arrived in Hobart in 1834 aboard the Sarah.
2 portraits in the collection
Preserving stories, subverting power and posing nude: Benjamin Law explores the potency and persuasiveness of portraiture.
Leanne Benjamin AM OBE (b. 1964) was Principal Dancer with the Royal Ballet between 1993 and 2013.
1 portrait in the collection
Benjamin Duterrau, who arrived in Tasmania in 1832 at the age of 65, created the first Australian history paintings with his images celebrating Robinson's conciliatory relocation project.
2 portraits in the collection
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2010
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2010
Purchased with funds provided by The Ian Potter Foundation 2009
Purchased with funds provided by The Ian Potter Foundation 2009
Purchased 2022
Herbert Benjamin George Larkin CBE (c. 1871- 1944), shipping administrator, came to Australia from England and joined the office of the Australian Steam Navigation Company.
1 portrait in the collection
English artist Benjamin Duterrau took up the cause of the Indigenous peoples of Tasmania with his detailed and sympathetic renderings.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2012
Roger Benjamin explores the intriguing union of Lina Bryans and Alex Jelinek.
Gareth Knapman explores the politics and opportunism behind the portraits of Tasmania’s Black War.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2018
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Ted and Gina Gregg 2012
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
Gilbert Stuart was an American painter who arrived in London by way of Scotland in 1775.
1 portrait in the collection
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.
Join the host of River Cottage Australia for a special meal and conversation
Purchased 2019
Thomas Phillips was born in Dudley, Warwickshire and initially trained as a glass painter before moving to London, aged 20, with a letter of introduction to the painter Benjamin West.
6 portraits in the collection
Purchased 2013
The American brothers Perez Mann, Benjamin and Nathaniel Batchelder worked in Victoria and New South Wales in the 1850s and 1860s.
9 portraits in the collection
This issue features Vanity Fair, Nancy Bird Walton, William Barak, Sidney Kidman, Benjamin Duterrau's portraits of the Indigenous peoples of Tasmania, and more.
James Heath commenced an apprenticeship with an engraver named Joseph Collyer at the age of fourteen.
2 portraits in the collection
Valentine Green, engraver, spent two years in a solicitor’s office in Evesham before abandoning the law and becoming a pupil of Robert Hancock, an engraver in Worcester.
1 portrait in the collection
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Malcolm Robertson in memory of William Thomas Robertson 2018
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program
Alex Jelinek (1925–2007), architect and designer, graduated from the technical building school of Hradec Králové, near Prague, during World War II.
1 portrait in the collection
Bidgee Bidgee (c. 1787–c. 1837), a leader of the Burramattagal clan of the Dharug people, joined a number of sealing and whaling voyages to Bass Strait in the early 1800s, and acted as a tracker to an 1816 expedition aimed at quelling attacks against settlers in west and north-west Sydney.
1 portrait in the collection
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Paul and James Bryans 2015. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Gift of Malcolm Robertson in memory of William Thomas Robertson 2018. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Margaret Seares AO (b. 1948), chair of the Perth International Arts Festival from 2012 to 2016 and senior deputy vice chancellor at the University of Western Australia from 2004 to 2008, began her academic career specialising in keyboard music of the eighteenth century.
1 portrait in the collection
Purchased 2011
Purchased 2005
Edward John Eyre (1815-1901), explorer and administrator, emigrated to New South Wales from England when he was 17.
3 portraits in the collection
Commissioned with funds provided by the Sid and Fiona Myer Family Foundation 2018
William Yang on his autobiographical self portraits, David Parker's 1970s and 80s Melbourne music photographs, seven-time NPPP finalist Chris Budgeon, and Benjamin Warlngundu Ellis.
Olegas Truchanas (1923-1972) was born in 1923 in Siauliai, Lithuania.
1 portrait in the collection
Pangernowidedic also known as Bessy Clark (c. 1825-1867) was a woman from the Port Davey district in south west Tasmania, the daughter of Tingernoop and Cordwanene.
2 portraits in the collection
Commissioned with funds provided by Tim Fairfax AC 2006
Sir Samuel Wilson was elected to the British House of Commons in 1886.
1 portrait in the collection
Purchased 2013
Dean Home was born in Busselton, south-west Western Australia. He obtained a Bachelor of Art Degree from Curtin University in 1981, and a Diploma of Education some years later.
1 portrait in the collection
The National Portrait Gallery welcomes Angus Trumble
Sir Alexander Fuller-Acland-Hood Bart MP (1853-1917) was MP for West Somerset from 1892 to 1911, when he was created Lord St Audries.
1 portrait in the collection
Elizabeth Henrietta Fitzgerald (née Rouse, 1818–1863) was born at Rouse Hill, New South Wales, the youngest daughter of colonial public servant and landowner Richard Rouse (1774–1852) and his wife Elizabeth (née Adams, 1772–1849), who’d come to Sydney as free settlers in 1801.
1 portrait in the collection
Ralph Sutton (1908-1967), Methodist minister, trained in Sydney, was ordained in 1935 and began his career in Mosman Methodist Church.
1 portrait in the collection
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by Karen McLeod Adair and Anthony Adair 2003
Purchased 2017
Guido Maestri, born in Mudgee, completed a Bachelor of Fine Art (Hons) in painting at the National Art School, Darlinghurst in 2003.
1 portrait in the collection
This is Marissa Gallagher from Kintore, which if you're in Alice Springs, just go west until the WA border, just before that, a traditional area of Pintupi mob.
Gift of Pamela Glasson 2009
Collected by Leila Haigh (nee Rouse)
Henry Bryan Hall grew up in England and began his trade as an apprentice to the engravers Benjamin Smith and Henry Meyer.
1 portrait in the collection
Sir Alexander Campbell Onslow (1842-1908), judge, was educated at Cambridge and practised law in England before being appointed attorney general of British Honduras in 1878.
1 portrait in the collection
Walter Preston, engraver and convict, came to New South Wales aboard the Guildford in 1812.
1 portrait in the collection
Purchased 2012
Simon Griffiths has been acclaimed in numerous publications as Australia's leading food and garden photographer.
1 portrait in the collection
Kerry Stokes AC (b. 1940), businessman and philanthropist, was born John Patrick Alford in Melbourne.
1 portrait in the collection
Henry Sadd was born in London and exhibited engravings there before emigrating to the USA some time around 1840.
8 portraits in the collection
Gordon Watson AM (1921-1999), pianist and teacher, taught at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music from 1964 to 1986 and was head of its keyboard department when he retired.
1 portrait in the collection
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2012
John Eason (1799–1858) was a shipwright who worked in Van Diemen’s Land during the 1830s, 1840s and 1850s.
1 portrait in the collection
Purchased 2008
Influential Indigenous Australian artist Michael Riley (1960 - 2004) created these portrait photographs between 1984 and 1990 - they stand as an intricately connected group portrait of the vibrant urban-based Indigenous arts community in Sydney's inner-west at a formative moment.
Sir John Forrest (1847-1918), explorer and politician, trained as a surveyor and led an 1869 expedition in search of Ludwig Leichhardt.
2 portraits in the collection
Darren McDonald gained his Bachelor of Fine Arts (Painting) degree from RMIT in 2000, having completed an associate diploma in painting at the same institution.
1 portrait in the collection
When opposites attract
William Dampier (1651-1715), seafarer and writer, had spent a good deal of time at sea as a buccaneer and merchant sailor before he spent three months in 1688 around King Sound (northern Western Australia) on the Cygnet.
1 portrait in the collection
Purchased with funds provided by the Annual Appeal 2020
Richard 'Darby' McCarthy OAM (1945–2020), former jockey who rode in three Melbourne Cups and won more than 1000 races, is a proud descendant of the Mithaka and Goongurri people of south-west and central Queensland.
1 portrait in the collection
Nancy Bird Walton AO OBE (1915–2009), aviatrix, decided she wanted to be a pilot when, at age eight, she saw a plane make an emergency landing on a beach near her home.
2 portraits in the collection
Super Kaylene Whiskey celebrates one of Australia’s leading contemporary artists, proud Yankunytjatjara woman Kaylene Whiskey.
Bushranger Ben Hall and his cronies held around 40 people hostage in a pub north-west of Goulburn, telling their captives ‘don’t be alarmed; we only came here for a bit of fun’.
Justin Corby Tjungurrayi (b. 1982) is a Luritja artist who was born in Kintore on the border of the Northern Territory and Western Australia.
1 portrait in the collection
Purchased 2022
West Australian-born Lesley Moline (née O’Toole) studied at Perth Technical College before moving to Melbourne in 1933.
1 portrait in the collection
Penelope Grist talks to photographer Benjamin Warlngundu Ellis about capturing moments, telling stories and keeping Culture strong.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by Timothy Fairfax AC 2003
Mary Moore (b. 1957) is a West Australian portrait artist. She began formal art training in Claremont at the age of fifteen, later attending the Western Australian Institute of Technology and Royal College of Art, London.
4 portraits in the collection
Beautiful punk love
Thom Roberts reveals the stories behind some of his portraits, Rebecca Harkins-Cross on Carol Jerrems, and Daniel Browning reflects on Tracey Moffatt’s 1986 series Some lads.
Mark Taylor AO (b. 1964) was captain of the Australian cricket team from 1994 until his retirement from Test cricket in 1999.
1 portrait in the collection
Adut Akech Bior (b. 1999), supermodel, was born in South Sudan and spent the first several years of her life in the UN's Kakuma refugee camp in north-west Kenya, after her family fled from civil war.
4 portraits in the collection
John Austin was born and developed his skills as a photographer in England.
2 portraits in the collection
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2015
Barrister and philanthropist Malcolm James McCusker AC CVO KC was born in Subiaco, Western Australia in 1938.
1 portrait in the collection
Johann Zoffany, painter of portraits and conversation pieces, grew up in the court of the Prince von Thurn und Taxis in Germany, where his father was employed.
1 portrait in the collection
Finniss Springs is located south of the Oodnadatta Track, 50km west of Marree on Arabana Country, South Australia.
1 portrait in the collection
Gift of Reverend Ralph Sutton's daughters Arlene Howes and Megan Newman in memory of Ralph Sutton and in tribute to his wife Dorothy Sutton 2011
James King (c. 1750-1784), naval officer, was born in Lancashire and educated at Clitheroe Grammar School before entering the navy in 1762.
1 portrait in the collection
Sir George Grey (1812-1898), originally an explorer of the West Australian coast, became Governor of the near- bankrupt colony of South Australia in 1840.
2 portraits in the collection
Neale Daniher AO, Australian Football player, coach and general manager, was born in West Wyalong, New South Wales in 1961.
1 portrait in the collection
Steve Waugh (b. 1965) became captain of the Australian cricket team when Mark Taylor retired in early 1999.
1 portrait in the collection
Elizabeth Jolley AO (1923-2007) was a West Australian writer. Born in England, she worked as a nurse during the war and after migrating to Western Australia in 1959, when she also worked as a cleaner and saleswoman.
1 portrait in the collection
Sir Frederick George Denham Bedford GCB GCVO (1838–1913) was governor of Western Australia from 1903 to 1909.
1 portrait in the collection
Sir William Windeyer (1834-1897) was a politician and judge. One of the first undergraduates to study at the University of Sydney, he developed a particular interest in education and the rights of women - he was responsible for the Married Women's Property Act of 1879, and was Founding Chairman of the university's Women's College.
4 portraits in the collection
Sir Charles Kingsford Smith MC AFC (1897- last seen 1935) and Captain Charles Ulm (1898-last seen 1934) together founded Australian National Airlines.
3 portraits in the collection
Lucio Galletto OAM (birth date undisclosed) was born into a family of farmers and restaurateurs in north-west Italy.
1 portrait in the collection
Jessie Whyte (née Walker, 1779–1864). Born in Berwickshire, Scotland, Jessie married George Whyte (d.
1 portrait in the collection
Sir Russell Drysdale AC (1912-1981), painter, developed eye trouble in 1929, and had to leave boarding school for the first of many eye treatments which left him fearful of total blindness.
6 portraits in the collection
Betsy Napangardi Lewis (c. 1940–2008) was born at Kunajarryi, west of Yuendumu, Northern Territory and became a noted Warlpiri artist across the course of her career.
1 portrait in the collection
Commissioned with funds provided by the Sid and Fiona Myer Family Foundation 2018
Judith Pungarta Inkamala (b. 1947), senior potter, is an Arrernte woman who was born in Hermannsburg, 130 km west of Alice Springs.
3 portraits in the collection
Purchased 2015
Kitty Kantilla (Kutuwulumi Purawarrumpatu) (c. 1928–2003) was the most acclaimed Tiwi artist of her generation.
1 portrait in the collection
Purchased with funds provided by the Liangis family 2013
Margaret Woodward (b. 1938), painter, grew up in Sydney where she gained a scholarship to study art at the NAS.
3 portraits in the collection
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Commissioned with funds provided by L Gordon Darling AC CMG 1999
Newcastle-born Susie Porter (b. 1971) always knew she wanted to be an actor.
1 portrait in the collection
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 1999
Peter Purves Smith (1912–1949), artist, went to Geelong Grammar with his lifelong friend Russell Drysdale.
2 portraits in the collection
John Schank (1740–1823), naval officer, joined the Royal Navy at age 17, having served in the merchant service as a boy.
1 portrait in the collection
Charles Joseph La Trobe (1801-1875), colonial administrator, travelled widely in Europe and America before beginning his colonial career in the West Indies in 1837.
3 portraits in the collection
Recorded 2017
Accomplished illustrator, painter, writer and diarist, set designer and one of the most distinguished photographers of the twentieth century, Cecil Beaton is renowned for his portraits of well known faces from the worlds of fashion, literature, and film.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of L Gordon Darling AC CMG 2004
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program
John Shortland (1739-1803), naval officer, was a member of a family of which six members were associated with the colonisation of Australia and New Zealand.
1 portrait in the collection
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 1999
Theresa Shepheard Mort (née Laidley, 1820-1869), colonial spouse, was one of eight children of civil servant James Laidley and his wife Eliza Jane (née Shepheard).
2 portraits in the collection
Purchased 2017
Robert Drewe (b. 1943), author, grew up in Perth, where he worked as a junior reporter with the West Australian from 1961 to 1964.
1 portrait in the collection
Presented by Sir Roy Strong and the late Dr Julia Trevelyan Oman in memory of their friendship with Gordon Darling and Marilyn Darling 2006
Telphia Joseph, a Wajarri Yamatji woman from Western Australia, is an Associate Lecturer at the University of New South Wales School of Population Health and Community Medicine, where she teaches Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health focus subjects.
1 portrait in the collection
Malcolm Benjamin Graham Christopher Williamson AO CBE (1931–2003), composer, was born in Sydney, and was educated at Barker College, Hornsby, and then at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, where he studied piano and French horn as well as composition under Sir Eugene Goossens.
1 portrait in the collection
'Diving Venus' and 'the perfect woman' are two of the numerous descriptions applied to Annette Kellerman, who achieved international fame during the early decades of the twentieth century.
Gift of Mr Ronald Walker 2001
Purchased 2013
Purchased 2007
Purchased with funds provided by Marilyn Darling AC 2005
William Howitt, woodcarver and sculptor, began his career in the UK, decorating ships’ interiors and working on ecclesiastical items.
1 portrait in the collection
Benita Collings (b. 1940) actor and television personality, is best known as the longest-serving presenter on ABC TV's Play School.
1 portrait in the collection
Vincent Lingiari AM (1919–1988) was an Elder of the Gurindji people of the Northern Territory.
1 portrait in the collection
A bond in song
Tim Storrier AM (b. 1949), painter, studied at the National Art School from 1967 to 1969.
4 portraits in the collection
Gift of the family of Sir Victor and Lady Windeyer 2009. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Gift of Patrick Corrigan AM 2020. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
The Warumpi Band burst onto the Australian music scene in 1984 with the release of their first album Big Name, No Blankets.
2 portraits in the collection
Samantha Cook is a Nyikina woman from the north-west Kimberley region of Western Australia who is based between Los Angeles and Australia.
1 portrait in the collection
Celebrate the people, places and sounds of Australian pub rock and its enduring impact on our nation’s identity.
Harry Williams (b. 1951) is a Wiradjuri man and the first Indigenous footballer to represent Australia at international level.
1 portrait in the collection
Purchased 2019
Annette Kellerman (1886–1975), champion swimmer and entertainer, was among the early twentieth century's most recognisable women.
2 portraits in the collection
Darrell Sibosado is a Bard man of the Lombadina Community, in the West Kimberley region of Western Australia.
1 portrait in the collection
Jessie Sinden was a barmaid at the Brooklyn Hotel on George Street in Sydney when she was 'discovered' by Baron George Hoyningen-Huene, a high-profile American fashion photographer and Hollywood figure.
1 portrait in the collection
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.
George Rrurrambu Burarrwanga (1957–2007) was a Yolngu singer, activist and a founding member of the Warumpi Band.
2 portraits in the collection
Sir Henry Wylie Norman (1826–1904), governor and army officer, was born in London, the son of a merchant who conducted his business chiefly in India and the Caribbean.
1 portrait in the collection
Purchased 2003
Steven Heathcote AM (b. 1964), dancer, is The Australian Ballet's longest-serving principal artist from 1987 to 2007.
1 portrait in the collection
Dennis Lillee AM MBE (b. 1949), fast bowler, led Australia's cricketing attack through the 1970s.
1 portrait in the collection
Bonita Mabo AO (c. 1943–2018), South Sea Islander reconciliation activist, was the widow of Torres Strait Islander land claimant Eddie Mabo.
1 portrait in the collection
Gift of Patrick Corrigan AM 2004. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Thomas Daunt Lord (1783–1865) was the commandant of the convict station on Maria Island from 1825 until 1832.
1 portrait in the collection
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2010
Tim Winton (b. 1960) is the author of 29 books, with his work translated into 28 languages.
2 portraits in the collection
Mervyn Bishop (b. 1945), a Murri photographer, began a cadetship with the Sydney Morning Herald in 1963.
6 portraits in the collection
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by Graham Smith 2009
Janet Holmes à Court AC (b. 1943), businesswoman and philanthropist, graduated in science and worked as a teacher before marrying young Perth lawyer Robert Holmes à Court in 1966.
1 portrait in the collection
Purchased 2013
Purchased 2015
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 1999
Purchased 2013
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by Robert Oatley AO 2007
Sir Sidney Kidman, pastoralist (1857-1935), is Australia's 'cattle king'.
2 portraits in the collection
Purchased 2010
Palassis (Vlase, Vlazio or Vlasio) Zanalis (1902–1973) arrived in Western Australia as a twelve-year-old, accompanied by an uncle, from the Greek island of Kastellorizo in 1914.
1 portrait in the collection
Community, arts, activism
Purchased 2015
Purchased 2014
Gift of the artist 2021
Gift of the Wade and Hannah families 2013
Gift of the artist 2020
Purchased with funds provided by the Basil Bressler Bequest 2004
Purchased 1999
Purchased 2010
Gift of the artist 2020
Jarinyanu David Downs (c. 1925–1995), Wangkajunga/Walmajarri painter, printmaker and preacher, lived a traditional life in the Great Sandy Desert of West Australia until he was a young man.
2 portraits in the collection
Gift of the artist 2020
Gift of the artist 2020
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of John Hamilton 1999
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program
Edward Riou (1762-1801), naval officer, began his career with the Royal Navy at the age of twelve.
2 portraits in the collection
Purchased 2010
George John Watson (1829–1906), racing entrepreneur, was born at Ballydarton in Co.
1 portrait in the collection
Thomas Mackdougall Brisbane (1773-1860) was born into an aristocratic Scottish family and entered the army at the age of 16.
2 portraits in the collection
Sir Oswald Brierly (1817–1894), marine painter and adventurer, studied art, naval architecture and navigation in England before his fascination with seafaring caused him to sign up as staff artist on the Wanderer – a schooner owned by entrepreneur Benjamin Boyd, who was about to embark on a round-the-world trip.
1 portrait in the collection
Purchased 2000
Albert Frederick Calvert (1872-1946), author, traveller and mining engineer, first visited Australia in 1890, when he undertook a journey of exploration from Lake Gairdner to the upper Murchison River.
1 portrait in the collection
Born in Portland in south-west Victoria, Agnes Goodsir (1864–1939) initially painted still life before applying herself to the challenge of portraiture.
1 portrait in the collection
It’s important to have a best bud when you’re growing up. For many boys the transition from boyhood through adolescence is defined by wanting to fit in.
Brian Thorley Loton AC (1929–2022) was chairman of BHP from 1992 to 1997.
2 portraits in the collection
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by Ross A Field 2008
Purchased 2021
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by Ross A Field 2008
Purchased 2001
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Helga Leunig 2013
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2002
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
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2011
Gift of Patrick Corrigan AM 2020. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
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
Gift of Ronald Walker 2002
George Lambert (1873–1930), artist, was born in St Petersburg and lived in Germany and England before coming to Australia with his family at the age of fourteen.
7 portraits in the collection
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2015
Purchased 2017
Purchased 2021
The Hermannsburg Potters are a collective of highly respected senior women artists of the Western Arrarnta (Arrernte) community.
1 portrait in the collection
Jules Poret de Blosseville (1802-1833), geographer, navigator and explorer, was a junior officer on the Coquille, which, under the command of Louis Isidore Duperrey, conducted a voyage to Oceania and South America between 1822 and 1825.
1 portrait in the collection
Ernest Giles (1835-1897), explorer, came to Australia at the age of fifteen, settling in Adelaide.
1 portrait in the collection
Tom LeGarde (1931–2021) and Ted LeGarde (1931–2018), 'The LeGarde Twins', were early pioneers of country music.
1 portrait in the collection
Gift of Robyn Archer AO 2012. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Ted LeGarde (1931–2018) and Tom LeGarde (1931–2021), ‘The LeGarde Twins’, were early pioneers of country music.
1 portrait in the collection
Bob Brown (b. 1944), environmentalist, doctor and former politician, is an environmental campaigner and former Parliamentary Leader of the Australian Greens.
2 portraits in the collection
Gift of Patrick Corrigan AM 2004. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Gift of Nancy Bird Walton AO OBE 2008. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Glenn McGrath AM (b. 1970), philanthropist and former Test cricketer, is one of international cricket's greatest ever fast bowlers.
1 portrait in the collection
Gift of Danina Dupain Anderson 2021. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Nicholas Paspaley Jnr AC (b. 1948) is chair of the Paspaley Group of Companies, with interests in pearling, aviation, retail, pastoral holdings and commercial properties in Australia and internationally.
2 portraits in the collection
Gift of the artist 2001
Gift of Patrick Corrigan AM 2004. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Neil Murray (b. 1956), singer/songwriter, grew up in country Victoria, studied art and became a teacher.
2 portraits in the collection
Gift of BHP Billiton 2003. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
It was the era of recording your favourite songs directly from the radio; of seeing the latest acts and clips on Countdown; and when the Aussie bands you saw on TV and heard in the charts were the ones you could see live at the pub.
Purchased 2006
Gift of the artist 2004
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2016
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program
Charles Haddon Chambers (1860-1921), playwright and dramatist, grew up in Sydney.
1 portrait in the collection
Commissioned with funds provided by Ross Adler AC 2018
David Hansen’s tribute to his close friend, prince of words and former National Portrait Gallery director, the late Angus Trumble.
Baron Jacques Hamelin (1768-1839), French naval officer, began his sailing career at seventeen, making his first long voyage on a merchant marine ship to and from Angola.
1 portrait in the collection
Michael Desmond explores the complex portrait of Dr Bob Brown by Harold 'The Kangaroo' Thornton.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2011
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2011
Geoff Dyer (1947-2020) was renowned landscape and portrait painter whose practice depicted Tasmania and its people.
1 portrait in the collection
Kristin Headlam's portrait of Chris Wallace-Crabbe was acquired with the support of the Circle of Friends in 2014.
Lady Ellen Stirling (1807-1874) was the third daughter of James Mangles of Woodbridge in Surrey, a Director of the East India Company and later an MP.
1 portrait in the collection
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Malcolm Robertson in memory of William Thomas Robertson 2018. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
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.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2010
On show in Gallery 3, One-on-one showcases portraits of pairs from the collection from the 1800s to today.
Miriam Hyde AO OBE (1913-2005), composer, recitalist, teacher, examiner, poet, lecturer and writer of numerous articles for music journals, studied first with her mother and then with William Silver at the Elder Conservatorium in Adelaide.
1 portrait in the collection
The artist's diary profiles six decades of Cassab's work, from the early portrait commissions of the 1950s to later paintings that have helped confirm her eminent place in the canon of Australian portraiture.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by Graham Smith 2009
William Bligh (1754-1817), naval officer, was born in Plymouth and first went to sea at around the age of eight.
3 portraits in the collection
The Hon. Linda Jean Burney MP (b. 1957), a Wiradjuri woman, is the first First Nations person elected to the New South Wales parliament, and the first First Nations woman to serve in the federal House of Representatives.
2 portraits in the collection
Robyn Archer AO (b. 1948), performer, writer and director, began singing at four years old.
3 portraits in the collection
This is the first major exhibition to examine photographic portraiture in Australia, from its beginnings in the early 1840s to the present day
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2010
William Birdwood KCMG KCSI KCB DSO, 1st Baron Birdwood of Anzac and Totnes (1865-1951) commanded the Australian Corps for much of the First World War.
1 portrait in the collection
John Bulmer (1833-1913), missionary and clergyman, came to Australia in 1852 and worked as a cabinetmaker in Melbourne for two years before going to the goldfields.
1 portrait in the collection
Wylie (c. 1824–unknown) is thought to have been born near King George’s Sound in south-west Western Australia, which would make him a Noongar man.
1 portrait in the collection
James Tylor (b. 1986) is an Australian multi-disciplinary contemporary visual artist.
1 portrait in the collection
Louis-Claude Desaulses de Freycinet (1779–1842), hydrographer and cartographer, sailed with Nicolas Baudin on the Expédition aux terres australes, a journey of discovery, commissioned by Napoléon, to the unknown southern coast of New Holland.
1 portrait in the collection
Gift of the Windeyer family 2009
Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri AO (c. 1932–2002) was a founding member of the artists cooperative established at Papunya in the early 1970s and one of the most renowned practitioners within the Western Desert art movement.
2 portraits in the collection
Dr Sarah Engledow discusses Quentin Jones's photograph of Australian author Tim Winton.
George Hurrell, born in Kentucky, began his working life studying painting at the Art Institute of Chicago.
1 portrait in the collection
Gillian Raymond investigates the history of humanoid robots and asks, is this the future of portraiture?
John Vickery (1906-1983), illustrator, designer and painter was the only Australian to be part of the New York School in 1960s which includes painters such as Jackson Pollock, Joan Mitchell and Willem de Kooning.
1 portrait in the collection
Robert Neill arrived in Van Diemen’s Land from Edinburgh in 1820 with his free-settler parents and two siblings.
1 portrait in the collection
Natural light and human proportions – the design by Johnson Pilton Walker
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by James Bain AM and Janette Bain 2010
Purchased 2014
Ensconced and meditative in crisp Tasmania, Joanna Gilmour pays tribute to passionate green advocate and photographer Olegas Truchanas.
The exhibition is selected from a national field of entries, reflecting the distinctive vision of Australia's aspiring and professional portrait photographers and the unique nature of their subjects.
Patrick Dodson (b. 1948), Indigenous advocate and senator for Western Australia, is a Yawaru man who was born in Broome but spent most of his childhood and early schooling in the Northern Territory.
1 portrait in the collection
Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig Leichhardt (1813-c. 1848) went to school and university in Germany but the range of his interests was such that he never actually graduated (he was later called Dr Leichhardt in recognition of his broad scholarship).
1 portrait in the collection
John Gould (1804–1881) is known as the ‘father of Australian ornithology’ for his Birds of Australia, published in seven volumes between 1840 and 1848.
1 portrait in the collection
Tara James shares the joy of dance and its power to connect in the National Portrait Gallery’s touring exhibition Dancer.
John Sumner AO CBE (1924–2013), described as the 'father of Australian drama', was born in England and trained and worked in repertory theatre there before World War 2.
2 portraits in the collection
Purchased 2018
Gift of the artist 2017. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
A new commissioned portrait funded by the Gallery’s Foundation will be launched at Murdoch University in Perth tonight, Wednesday 2 September.
Purchased with funds provided by Ross A Field 2008
Herbert John Louis (Bert) Hinkler (1892-1933), aviator, worked with a photographer and in sugar mills before joining the Queensland Aero club and taking a correspondence course in mechanics.
1 portrait in the collection
Pushpamala N. was born in 1956 in Bangalore. Her early training was in sculpture, but as her practice progressed she brought an early enthusiasm for narrative figuration into her photographic work.
The exhibition is selected from a national field of entries, reflecting the distinctive vision of Australia's aspiring and professional portrait photographers and the unique nature of their subjects.
Gift of Danina Dupain Anderson 2018. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Hugh Jackman AC (b. 1968) is the ultimate triple threat – actor, singer and dancer.
1 portrait in the collection
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2018
Godfrey's amazing man. I've known him for four years now. He has a very tough story.
The considered matching of artist to subject has produced an amazing collection of unique and original works in the permanent collection of the National Portrait Gallery
Last week ABC Television came to interview me about selfie sticks. The story was prompted by the announcement that the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has lately prohibited the use of these inside their galleries. So far as I am aware we have not yet encountered the phenomenon, but no doubt we will before too long.
Olegas Truchanas and Peter Dombrovskis, photographers and conservationists, shared a love of photography and exploring wilderness areas of Tasmania.
Introduction The National Portrait Gallery’s photographic exhibition Flash: Australian Athletes in Focus explores various interpretations of Australian sporting men and women.
These full-length figures in watercolour, gouache and pencil date mostly from the 1820s, and almost all come from the collection of the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2014
Wayne Blair (b. 1971), director, actor and writer, became interested in acting and dance while a high school student in Rockhampton in the 1980s.
1 portrait in the collection
Gift of the Karmel family in memory of Lena and Peter Karmel 2018. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
'I have just been to my dressing case to take a peep at you.
Purchased with funds provided by the Ian Potter Foundation 2008
Sylvia Bremer (also Breamer) (1897–1943), actor, was born in Double Bay, Sydney, in June 1897 into a British-Australian naval family.
2 portraits in the collection
First Ladies profiles women who have achieved noteworthy firsts over the past 100 years.
The Australian of the Year Awards have often provoked controversy about who is selected and whether their achievements are remarkable.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2012
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2017
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2017
James McCabe provides proof that hanging wasn’t necessarily a fate reserved for the perpetrators of murder and other deeds of darkest hue.
This exhibition is the first comprehensive survey of self-portraits in Australia, from the colonial period to the present
Open Air is an exhibition of portraits of Australians in environments of particular significance to them.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Lucio Galletto OAM 2012
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program
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.
Purchased 2010
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.
Portraits from the Sigg collection, from 1979 to the present including painting, sculpture, photography, video and installation.
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.
Claire Roberts interviews Swiss art collector Uli Sigg.
Joanna Gilmour explores the life of colonial women Lady Ellen Stirling, Eliza Darling, Lady Eliza Arthur, Elizabeth Macquarie and Lady Jane Franklin.
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.
The acquisition of the ivory miniatures of Mortimer and Mrs Lewis.
Exhibited simultaneously at the two locations, Go Figure! is drawn from the Sigg Collection, the largest and most significant collection of contemporary Chinese art anywhere in the world.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2001
Born 1958, Kunming, Yunnan Province. Lives and works in Beijing.
The Australian painter Ben Quilty discusses his approach to portraiture.
Stephanie Alexander AO (b. 1940), cook, restaurateur, food writer and philanthropist, has been a major influence on Australian food and culinary culture for 50 years.
1 portrait in the collection
Last Sunday I had the privilege of appearing at the Canberra Writers’ Festival in conversation with Julia Baird. The subject of our session was Julia’s recent biography, Victoria the Queen: An Intimate Biography of the Woman who Ruled an Empire.
Commissioned with funds from the Basil Bressler Bequest 2002
In 2020 the Annual Appeal was focussed on Sally Robinson's remarkable portrait of author Tim Winton.
Seventeen of Australia’s thirty prime ministers to date are represented in the contrasting sizes, moods and mediums of these portraits.
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.
Angus Trumble explores the creative manifestations of radiance.
Born in 1959, Agus Suwage was educated in the creative hub of Central Java, Yogyakarta before moving west to study graphic design at the Bandung Institute of Technology.
The Chairman, Board, Director and all the staff of the National Portrait Gallery mourn the loss of our Benefactor, Mary Isabel Murphy.
Tamsin Hong recounts the tale of Marion Smith, the only known Australian Indigenous servicewoman of World War One.
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.
Lecture by Sandy Nairne, Director, National Portrait Gallery, London, given at the National Portrait Gallery, Canberra on 28 April 2006.
Mary Anne Egan (also Marianne or Marian, née Cheers, 1818–1857), was born in Sydney, the daughter of ex-convicts.
1 portrait in the collection
Barry Humphries AO CBE (1934–2023), actor, writer and artist, was the world's all-time most successful solo theatrical performer.
12 portraits in the collection
Isabella Louisa Parry (née Stanley, 1801–1839), amateur artist, community worker and collector, was the daughter of Sir John Stanley, first Baron Stanley of Alderley, a Whig politician and member of the Royal Society.
1 portrait in the collection
Going around a gallery with a child, we point to a painting of a dog and brightly ask ‘What’s that?’ If they don’t say ‘A dog’, we tell them that’s what it is. We don’t say it’s a shape inscribed by an artist that’s popularly understood to signify a dog. That’d only serve to foster a smarty-pants.
Commissioned with funds provided by Ross Adler AC 2018
Kwon Hyeeun introduces Korean portraits of Kang Sehwang, and five generations of the Kang family.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2001
Louise Cummins reveals the rich symbolism in Michael Peck’s photorealistic portrait of AFL legend and MND ambassador Neale Daniher.
Gift of the Estate of Harold Thornton 2009
Rebecca Ray reflects on Robert Fielding’s Mayatjara series, honouring songlines and intergenerational knowedge.
Purchased with funds provided by the Ian Potter Foundation 2008
Christopher Chapman describes the art and life of Australian artist Richard Larter.
Richard Flanagan (b. 1961) was born in Longford in northern Tasmania, the second youngest of the six children of Archie Flanagan, a primary school principal, and his wife Helen.
1 portrait in the collection
Henri-Cartier-Bresson invented the grammar for photographing life in the 20th century.
Joanna Gilmour explores the extraordinary life of Australian female aviator Nancy Bird Walton AO OBE
Barry York charts the course from childhood request to autographed celebrity portrait anthology.
As part of its ongoing program of commissions of portraits of prominent Australians, the National Portrait Gallery has unveiled a portrait of Her Excellency Marjorie Jackson-Nelson by South Australian artist Avril Thomas.
Projecting the splendour of the empire, and the resolve of its subjects, the bust of William Birdwood keeps a stiff upper lip in the National Portrait Gallery.
Charles Haddon Chambers the Australian-born playboy playwright settled permanently in London in 1880 but never lost his Australian stance when satirising the English.
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.
The first collaborative commission has arrived. It's a self portrait, it's ceramic and it's from Hermannsburg.
The current exhibition of portraits at the National Gallery of Ireland Print Gallery investigates just how paper-thin ideas of likeness are.
In 2023 the Annual Appeal was focussed on a work by one of Australia's best loved and most successful portrait painters, Judy Cassab AO CBE, depicting model, entrepreneur and deportment icon, June Dally-Watkins OAM.
Stephen Zagala discusses Richard Avedon’s work from an Australian perspective.
National Photographic Portrait Prize judge Christopher Chapman connects this year’s entries to iconic contemporary american photographers.
Inga Walton sheds light on a portraiture collection usually only seen by students and teachers at Melbourne University.
It has been suggested that Sir Thomas Brisbane’s interest in the New South Wales governorship was as attributable to his passion for astronomy as to the desirability of the position as a prestigious career move.
Dr Christopher Chapman, National Photographic Portrait Prize judge and curator, introduces the 2015 Prize.
Chairman Sid Myer AM, Hayley Baillie, Tim Bednall, Jillian Broadbent AC, Patrick Corrigan AM, Marilyn Darling AC, Tim Fairfax AC, Sam Meers AO, John Liangis, Dr Helen Nugent AC and Nigel Satterley AM.
Angus Trumble reveals the complex technical mastery behind a striking recent acquisition, Henry Bone’s enamel portrait of William Manning.
Sarah Engledow on a foundational gallery figure who was quick on the draw.
Christopher Chapman immerses himself in Larry Clark’s field of vision.
How the National Portrait Gallery and its unique collection came to be
Rebecca Ray goes backstage with Bangarra’s Head of Design and photographer Jacob Nash.
In 2006 the National Portrait Gallery acquired a splendid portrait of Victoria's first governor, Lieutenant Governor Charles Joseph La Trobe by Thomas Woolner.
Dr Christopher Chapman explores how we can understand Richard Avedon's photographs.
Peter Ciemitis breached regulations when creating the portrait of the polymath environmental scientist George Seddon.
Ashleigh Wadman rediscovers the Australian characters represented with a kindly touch by the British portrait artist Leslie Ward for the society magazine Vanity Fair.
Polly Borland talks to Oliver Giles about the celebrity portraits that made her name and why she’s now making more abstract art.
Phoebe Lupton profiles artist Kate Beynon, whose contemplative self portrait features in Archie 100: A Century of the Archibald Prize.
In recent years I have become fascinated by the so-called Sydney Cove Medallion (1789), a work of art that bridges the 10,000-mile gap between the newly established penal settlement at Port Jackson and the beating heart of Enlightenment England.
Exhibition curator Christine Clark introduces the work by Indonesian artist Agus Suwage created for Beyond the self: Contemporary portraiture from Asia.
At the time of Herra Pahlasari’s birth in 1978, her academic parents were living in Canberra.
Sandra Bruce gazes on love and the portrait through Australian Love Stories’ multi-faceted prism.
It may seem an odd thing to do at one’s leisure on a beautiful tropical island, but I spent much of my midwinter break a few weeks ago re-reading Bleak House.
Anne Sanders celebrates the cinematic union of two pioneering australian women.
Nusra Latif Qureshi was born in Pakistan in 1973 and originally trained in the traditional art of Mughal miniature (musaviri) paintings.
Joanna Gilmour examines the prolific output of Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, and discovers the risk of taking a portrait at face value.
Cartoonist Michael Leunig's insights into the human condition and current affairs have become famous Australia-wide.
Emanuel Solomon gave shelter to the Sisters of St Joseph upon the excommunication of St Mary MacKillop.
Michael Desmond looks at the history of the Vanity Fair magazine in conjunction with the exhibition Vanity Fair Portraits: Photographs 1913-2008
Joanna Gilmour revels in accidental artist Charles Rodius’ nineteenth century renderings of Indigenous peoples.
Anne O’Hehir chats with artist Kim Leutwyler about courage, community and the ethics of looking.
Chris Chapman explains how Matthys Gerber bridges the gap between abstraction and portraiture.
As the National Portrait Gallery opens its exhibition of portrait and figurative work by veteran photographer Sam Haskins, the artist reflects on the highlights of his fifty-year career so far.
As a convict Thomas Bock was required to sketch executed murders for science; as a free man, fashionable society portraits.
The London-born son of an American painter, Augustus Earle ended up in Australia by accident in January 1825.
Inga Walton delves into the bohemian group of artists and writers who used each other as muses and transformed British culture.
Henry Mundy's portraits flesh out notions of propriety and good taste in a convict colony.
Nikhil Chopra was born in 1974, in Calcutta. His first degree was in commerce, but in 1997 he took up fine art studies, eventually gaining a Masters in Fine Art from Ohio State University, United States.
Karen Quinlan considers the case of Agnes Goodsir, whose low profile in Australia belies her overseas acclaim.
Nici Cumpston immerses herself in the collective vision of the National Photographic Portrait Prize 2020.
Corinna Cullen on the symbolic power of pandemic-related imagery over the ages.
Joanna Gilmour recounts the story of ill-fated sea voyages in the early stages of the Antipodean colony.
The southern winter has arrived. For people in the northern hemisphere (the majority of humanity) the idea of snow and ice, freezing mist and fog in June, potentially continuing through to August and beyond, encapsulates the topsy-turvidom of our southern continent.
Angus Trumble salutes the glorious portraiture of Sir Thomas Lawrence.
I spent much of my summer holiday at D’Omah, on the outskirts of Yogyakarta. Lotus and waterlilies sprout in extraordinary profusion in artful ponds amid palms and deep scarlet ginger flowers.
The complex connections between four creative Australians; Patrick White, Sidney Nolan, Robert Helpmann and Peter Sculthorpe.
A design diary retrospective.
Jessica Bolton navigates the parallel tracks documenting Robyn Davidson’s astonishing journey.
Robyn Sweaney's quiet Violet obsession.
An exploration of national identity in the Canadian context drawn from the symposium Face to Face at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery in 2004.
Karen Vickery delights in a thespian thread of the Australian yarn.
Johanna McMahon revels in history and mystery in pursuit of a suite of unknown portrait subjects.
Stella Ramage on Father McHardy’s Bougainville portraiture.
Penelope Grist finds inspiration in pioneering New Zealand artist, Frances Hodgkins.
Dempsey’s People curator David Hansen chronicles a research tale replete with serendipity, adventure and Tasmanian tigers.
Frank Hurley's celebrated images document the heroism and minutiae of Australian exploration in Antarctica.
Sarah Engledow lauds the very civil service of Dame Helen Blaxland.
Anne Sanders imbibes Tony Bilson’s gastronomic revolution.
Politics and personae in the portraiture of TextaQueen by Jane Raffan.
Angus' initial perception of Uluru shifts, as he comes to see it as central to the entire order of Anangu life.
Joanna Gilmour reflects on 25 years of collecting at the National Portrait Gallery.
Joanna Gilmour discovers that the beards of the ill-fated explorers Burke and Wills were as epic as their expedition to traverse Australia from south to north.
Joanna Gilmour explores the 1790 portrait of William Bligh by Robert Dodd.
John Zubrzycki lauds the characters of the Australian escapology trade.
Dr. Sarah Engledow discusses a collection of drawings and prints by the Victorian artist Rick Amor acquired in 2005.
Alexandra Roginski gets a feel for phrenology’s fundamentals.
Joanna Gilmour describes some of the stories of the individuals and incidents that define French exploration of Australia and the Pacific.
Joanna Gilmour accounts for Australia’s deliciously ghoulish nineteenth century criminal portraiture.
Fiona aims to create a dangerous situation with a flood of water on the paper, forcing each work to the point where it can fail, and then rescuing it.
Sarah Engledow trains her exacting lens on the nine photographs from 20/20.
Anna Culliton never had a colouring-in book when she was little. Her parents –Tony, a filmmaker, and Stephanie, a painter – wouldn’t let her have one. Instead, they insisted on her drawing her own pictures to colour-in.
Works by Arthur Boyd and Sidney Nolan bring the desert, the misty seashore and the hot Monaro plains to exhibition Open Air: Portraits in the landscape.
Sarah Engledow describes the fall-out once Brett Whiteley stuck Patrick White’s list of his loves and hates onto his great portrait of the writer.
John Singer Sargent: a painter at the vanguard of contemporary movements in music, literature and theatre.
Joanna Gilmour discusses the role of the carte de visite in portraiture’s democratisation, and its harnessing by Victoria, the world’s first media monarch.
Dr Sarah Engledow, National Photographic Portrait Prize judge and curator, introduces the 2014 Prize.
The death of a gentlewoman is shrouded in mystery, a well-liked governor finds love after sorrow, and two upright men become entangled in the historical record.
Joanna Gilmour explores the life and times of convict-turned-artist William Buelow Gould.
Dr Sarah Engledow, National Photographic Portrait Prize judge and curator, introduces the 2017 Prize.
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.
Where do we draw a line between the personal and the historical? Although she died in Melbourne in 1975, when I was not quite eleven years old, I have the vividest memories of my maternal grandmother Helen Borthwick.
Sarah Engledow casts a judicious eye over portraits in the Victorian Bar’s Peter O’Callaghan QC Portrait Gallery.
Sarah Engledow bristles at the biographers’ neglect of Kitchener’s antipodean intervention.
Sarah Engledow writes about Gordon and Marilyn Darling and their support for the National Portrait Gallery throughout its evolution.
Inner Worlds evokes a broad view of psychology as a discipline. However, the specific interests of the practitioners whose portraits are included in the exhibition incorporate specialist areas including psychoanalysis.
Sarah Engledow chronicles Rick Amor's work and accomplishments in this extensive essay in conjunction with the exhibition Rick Amor: 21 Portraits.
Sarah Engledow explores the history of the prime ministers and artists featured in the exhibition.
Sarah Engledow looks at three decades of Nicholas Harding's portraiture.