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Vanity fair

Ashleigh Wadman rediscovers the Australian characters represented with a kindly touch by the British portrait artist Leslie Ward for the society magazine Vanity Fair.

Phil (Phil May), 1895

Gift of Mr Ronald Walker 2001

Dan (Sir Daniel Cooper), 1890s

Gift of Ronald A Walker 2009. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

The Demon bowler (Frederick Robert Spofforth), 1878

Purchased 2002

H. Searle Professional Champion Sculler of the World (Henry Searle), 1889

Purchased 2014

Australia (The Hon. Alfred Deakin), 1908

Gift of Ronald A Walker 2009. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

Ducker (Douglas Hamilton McLean), 1897

Purchased 2015

a squatter (Sir Samuel Wilson), 1885

Gift of Mr Ronald Walker 2001

a Postmaster General (Sir James Fergusson), 1892

Purchased 2014

The Demon bowler (Frederick Robert Spofforth), 1878

Purchased 2015

Sydney (Sir Daniel Cooper), 1882

Gift of Mr Ronald Walker 2001

Aldershot Cavalry (Major General Reginald Talbot), 1897

Purchased 2013

Australia (Sir Edmund Barton), 1902

Gift of Mr Ronald Walker 2001

The Cape High Commissioner (Sir Henry Brougham Loch), 1894

Gift of Ronald A Walker 2009. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

Chelsea Hospital (Sir Henry Wylie Norman), 1903

Purchased 2015

The Cape of Good Hope ( Sir Henry Barkly), 1887

Purchased 2015

International Penny Postage (Mr John Henniker Heaton MP), 1887

Gift of Ronald Walker 2002

Westralia (Mr Albert Frederick Calvert), 1895

Gift of Ronald Walker 2002

Saide, R.Y.S. (Charles Gibson Millar), 1894

Purchased 2015

The Australian Commonwealth (Henry Stafford Northcote), 1904

Gift of Ronald A Walker 2009. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

fresh from the Channel Fleet (Sir Harry Holdsworth Rawson), 1901

Purchased 2015

Peace and War (Mr A. G. Hales), 1908

Gift of Ronald A Walker 2009. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

Small Holdings (The Earl Carrington Baron Charles Robert Carrington), 1907

Gift of Ronald Walker 2002

New South Wales (Earl Beauchamp), 1899

Gift of Ronald A Walker 2009. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

Fairie (A W Cox), 1910

Purchased 2015

Candidate for Chelsea (9th Earl of Kintore), 1880

Purchased 2015

Frank Wootton, c. 1908

Gift of Ronald A Walker 2009. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

Western Australia (Sir Frederick Bedford), 1903

Purchased 2015

New South Wales (Earl of Jersey Victor Albert George Child-Villiers), 1890

Gift of Mr Ronald Walker 2001

First Conservative Whip (Sir Alexander Fuller-Acland-Hood Bart MP), 1903

Gift of Ronald Walker 2002

The Lord Chamberlain (Earl of Hopetoun John Adrian Louis Hope), 1900

Gift of Mr Ronald Walker 2001

a Traveller (2nd Baron Lamington), 1892

Purchased 2015

Friends' Farewell, 2006

The right note

Marian Anderson’s glorious voice thrust her into stardom, and a more reluctant role as American civil rights pioneer.

Dr Hugh Kingsley Ward, n.d.

Gift of Danina Dupain Anderson 2017. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

Portrait of Leslie Walford, 1970s

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Sally Hardy 2019

Sir Leslie Herron, 1969

Gift of Susan Crawford OAM 2016

Professor Leslie Wilkinson, 1970

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 1999

Mr Walford, 2006

Sir Edward Holden, 1945

Bequest of John J Holden 2005

Rachel Ward and Bryan Brown, 2006 (printed 2020)

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2020

The Saints, 1978 (printed 2018)

Purchased with funds provided by Wayne Williams 2018

Promise Fulfilled

The life and achievements of Sir Edward Holden, who is represented in the portrait collection by a bust created by Leslie Bowles.

Judicial portraits

Leslie Moran investigates the portraits of judges in the National Portrait Gallery's collection.

Californian clinch in the ‘Australian’ outback

Long-term love scene

Norman and "Peter Ward", c. 1906

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2008

Yarnangu

Acacius (Stigmata) - Tony Carden, 1991

Gift of Lesley Saddington 2015

Dora Byrne, 1951

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the Estate of Leslie Walford AM 2013

Bryan Brown, 2008

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2013

Release, 2010

Peter O'Shaughnessy, 1947

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 1999

David McAllister to join National Portrait Gallery collection

Artistic Director of The Australian Ballet, David McAllister AM will join the Portrait Gallery’s national collection in a newly-commissioned portrait taken by illustrious Australian photographer, Peter Brew-Bevan.

Elizabeth Walford, c. 1873

Gift of the Estate of Leslie Walford AM 2013

William Walford, c. 1873

Gift of the Estate of Leslie Walford AM 2013

Les Murray, 1995

Purchased with funds provided by the Basil Bressler Bequest 2001

Les Murray, 2003

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Norman McBeath 2011

Colleen McCullough, 1992-1993 (printed 2005)

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2005

Study for portrait of Les Murray, 1995

Gift of the artist 2001

George Lambert

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

The Dance - David McAllister, 2016

Commissioned with funds provided by The Stuart Leslie Foundation 2016

Steve Kilbey, 1981 (printed 2018)

Purchased with funds provided by Wayne Williams 2018

Bart Willoughby, c. 2000

Gift of the artist 2004

Bart Willoughby (No Fixed Address) at 'The National Land Rights Action' march, 1982

Gift of the artist 2021. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

Sketchbook journal for the commission portrait "The Dance - David McAllister", 2016

Commissioned with funds provided by The Stuart Leslie Foundation 2016

Boy with surfboard cross: David Rastovich, 1999 (printed 2005)

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

Donors

Cecil Beaton

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.

National Portrait Gallery Director announced

The National Portrait Gallery welcomes Angus Trumble

Hide/Seek

David Ward writes about the exhibition Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture on display at the National Portrait Gallery, Washington.

Indexing, the art of

The first index I created was for my first book, and, to my astonishment, that was almost twenty-five years ago.

2020 Annual Appeal

In 2020 the Annual Appeal was focussed on Sally Robinson's remarkable portrait of author Tim Winton.

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.

Australian Love Stories

A major new exhibition celebrating love in all its guises. Opening 20 March 2021.

Collection: Icons

When a portrait communicates determination and individuality as boldly as these do, it has the potential to become an iconic image. For the Gallery’s 20th birthday this display brings together a group contemporary photographic portraits of inspiring women and men.

Harriet Schwarzrock: spaces between movement and stillness

To celebrate the new exhibition Australian Love Stories, renowned Australian glass artist Harriet Schwarzrock has been commissioned to make a large-scale installation reflecting on the role the heart plays as our emotional centre.

Icons

When a portrait communicates determination and individuality as boldly as these do, it has the potential to become an iconic image. For the Gallery’s 20th birthday this display brings together a group contemporary photographic portraits of inspiring women and men.

Stigma stigmata

Angus Trumble provides poignant context for Aña Wojak’s portrait of Tony Carden.

National Photographic Portrait Prize 2023

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.

The jungle look

David Gist steps beyond the public relations veneer of Australia’s official Vietnam War portrait photographs.

Annual Appeal

The last word

David Hansen’s tribute to his close friend, prince of words and former National Portrait Gallery director, the late Angus Trumble.

Life class

Barbara Blackman reflects on her experiences as a life model.

Where the wild things are

Michael Desmond explores the complex portrait of Dr Bob Brown by Harold 'The Kangaroo' Thornton.

The fat of the land

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

Star signs

Barry York charts the course from childhood request to autographed celebrity portrait anthology.

A rogue's calling card

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

Hired guns, bounty hunters and horse whisperers

Jude Rae contemplates the portrait commission.

Love my way

Inga Walton delves into the bohemian group of artists and writers who used each other as muses and transformed British culture.

Portrait Donors

All the way with K of K

Sarah Engledow bristles at the biographers’ neglect of Kitchener’s antipodean intervention.

The Rothschilds, the Montefiores, and the Victorian Gold Rush

Some years ago my colleague Andrea Wolk Rager and I spent several days in the darkened basement of a Rothschild Bank, inspecting every one of the nearly 700 autochromes created immediately before World War I by the youthful Lionel de Rothschild.

Inner Worlds and psychoanalysis

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.

Faces of war

Lesley Harding, Curator, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne explores Albert Tucker’s experience of World War II, his interests in the intersection between psychology and creativity, and their influence on his portrait making.