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The Kylie exhibition celebrated the significant achievements of one of Australia's most internationally recognisable faces and gave the general public a rare glimpse into her glamorous life.
Gift of Mrs SM Asplin 2011
Gift of Mrs SM Asplin 2011
Jim Anderson was born in England, his family moving to Australia when he was one year old.
1 portrait in the collection
Ethel Anderson (née Mason, 1883-1958), writer and artist, was an important figure in the Sydney modern art scene of the 1920s and 30s.
2 portraits in the collection
Margaret Anderson GM (1915–1995) served with the Australian Army Nursing Service during the Second World War in Singapore.
1 portrait in the collection
Michael Anderson, sheep farmer and Aboriginal land rights activist, was born in Brewarrina, NSW.
1 portrait in the collection
Gary ‘Angry’ Anderson AM (b. 1947) is an Australian rock singer and television presenter.
1 portrait in the collection
Dame Judith Anderson AC DBE (1897–1992) was an Adelaide-born stage and film actress well known for her role as the sinister Mrs Danvers in Alfred Hitchcock's Rebecca (1940).
1 portrait in the collection
Purchased 2000 with the assistance of staff of Old Parliament House and the National Portrait Gallery in memory of Matthew Guy Hinder (1967-1999)
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 1999
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 1999
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2010
Professor Jaynie Anderson is the Herald Chair of Fine Arts and Foundation Director of the Australian Institute of Art History at the University of Melbourne.
1 portrait in the collection
Michelle Fracaro examines the life of World War II nurse Margaret Anderson, whose portrait by Napier Waller is in the NPG collection.
Purchased 2001
Gift of Patrick Corrigan AM 2013. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Jaynie Anderson reflects on her experience as sitter for Reshid Bey’s 1962 portrait.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Jaynie Anderson 2015
Gift of the artist 2005. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Gift of Danina Dupain Anderson 2017. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Gift of Danina Dupain Anderson 2021. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Gift of Danina Dupain Anderson 2018. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Gift of Danina Dupain Anderson 2021. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Gift of Danina Dupain Anderson 2017. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Gift of Danina Dupain Anderson 2021. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Gift of Danina Dupain Anderson 2017. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Gift of Danina Dupain Anderson 2017. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Gift of Danina Dupain Anderson 2021. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Gift of Danina Dupain Anderson 2017. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Gift of Danina Dupain Anderson 2018. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Gift of Danina Dupain Anderson 2021. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Gift of Danina Dupain Anderson 2017. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Gift of Danina Dupain Anderson 2017. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Gift of Danina Dupain Anderson 2018. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Gift of Danina Dupain Anderson 2021. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Gift of Danina Dupain Anderson 2018. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Gift of Danina Dupain Anderson 2018. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Gift of Danina Dupain Anderson 2017. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Gift of Danina Dupain Anderson 2018. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Gift of Danina Dupain Anderson 2021. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Gift of Danina Dupain Anderson 2017. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Gift of Danina Dupain Anderson 2018. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Gift of Danina Dupain Anderson 2017. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Gift of Danina Dupain Anderson 2021. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Gift of Danina Dupain Anderson 2017. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Gift of Danina Dupain Anderson 2017. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Gift of Danina Dupain Anderson 2018. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Gift of Danina Dupain Anderson 2017. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Gift of Danina Dupain Anderson 2017. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Gift of Danina Dupain Anderson 2017. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Gift of Danina Dupain Anderson 2017. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Gift of Danina Dupain Anderson 2021. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Gift of Danina Dupain Anderson 2021. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Gift of Danina Dupain Anderson 2021. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Gift of Danina Dupain Anderson 2021. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 1999
Sir Robert Helpmann CBE (1909–1986) was a dancer, actor and choreographer.
3 portraits in the collection
Meg Padgham studied at East Sydney Technical College and the Meldrum School.
1 portrait in the collection
Marian Anderson, emerging photographer Charles Dennington, piscatorial portraits, and the poignant path of photographer Polixeni Papapetrou and more.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Jozef Vissel 2015
Purchased 1998
Marian Anderson’s glorious voice thrust her into stardom, and a more reluctant role as American civil rights pioneer.
Noah Taylor (b. 1969) left school at 16 to join Melbourne's St Martin's Youth Theatre.
1 portrait in the collection
Marilyn Rowe AM OBE (b. 1946), former prima ballerina, was the first graduate of The Australian Ballet School to become its director.
2 portraits in the collection
Irina Baronova (1919–2008) was one of the three legendary 'baby ballerinas' of the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo, who created an international dance sensation in the 1930s and 1940s.
1 portrait in the collection
Sally Robinson, born in England, studied at the National Art School in Sydney from 1970 to 1973, and in the following year took up a position as designer at the Australian Museum in Sydney.
3 portraits in the collection
Gift of the J Sages Family Trust 2009. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Canadian-born photographic team Denis Montalbetti and Gay Campbell arrived in Australia in 1988.
14 portraits in the collection
Philip Gudthaykudthay (b. 1935) Liyagalawumirr (Yolgnu) bark painter, worked as a young man as a stockman, fencer and crocodile hunter around Milingimbi and Ramingining.
1 portrait in the collection
Gift of Danina Dupain Anderson 2017. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Mrs Doris Passmore 2003
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 1999
Gift of Danina Anderson, daughter of Max Dupain 2017.
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Gift of Danina Dupain Anderson 2018. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Gift of Danina Dupain Anderson 2018. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Anne Boyd AM (b. 1946), composer and teacher, was born in Sydney and studied composition with Peter Sculthorpe at the University of Sydney before earning a PhD at the University of York.
1 portrait in the collection
Gift of Danina Dupain Anderson 2017. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Purchased 2005
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2003
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program
Noel McKenna (b. 1956), artist, is best known for his spare linear style and paintings of everyday scenarios, often featuring animals and interiors.
3 portraits in the collection
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of John Hamilton 1999
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2010
Gift of Danina Dupain Anderson 2021. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Gift of Danina Dupain Anderson 2017. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Gift of Danina Dupain Anderson 2017. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Gift of Danina Dupain Anderson 2021. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Gift of Danina Dupain Anderson 2017. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
David Naseby (1937–2022) was born in England and studied in the United Kingdom before coming to Australia in 1953.
8 portraits in the collection
Arthur Thomas 'A T' Woodward (1865–1943), painter and art scholar, was born in Birmingham, England.
1 portrait in the collection
Although perceived to be a recent phenomenon, the 'Aussie invasion' of Hollywood can actually be traced as far back as the early 1900s
Purchased 2017
Gift of Danina Dupain Anderson 2018. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
This exhibition offers a comprehensive display of Clifton Pugh's portraits revealing his development and growth from tonal paintings to a unique style that was in demand from politicians, artists, academics and Australian personalities.
The exhibition Sages examines the process of portrait making through four large-scale portraits of women by Jenny Sages, paired with intimate preparatory drawings.
Geoffrey Roland Robertson AO KC (b. 1946), barrister, academic and defender of human rights, grew up in Sydney, attending Epping Boys' High and then the University of Sydney.
1 portrait in the collection
It was definitely a candid encounter as was the expression on the face. It was constructed insofar as the image was deliberately taken from a distance so as to minimize intrusion and to magnify the effect of the image.
First Ladies profiles women who have achieved noteworthy firsts over the past 100 years.
In its second year at the National Portrait Gallery, and for the first time touring to other venues, the National Photographic Portrait Prize 2009 continues to present surprising perspectives on the nature of contemporary portrait photography.
Athol Shmith’s photographs contributed to the emergence of a new vision of Australian womanhood.
The Australian of the Year Awards have often provoked controversy about who is selected and whether their achievements are remarkable.
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.
Seventeen of Australia’s thirty prime ministers to date are represented in the contrasting sizes, moods and mediums of these portraits.
The first collaborative commission has arrived. It's a self portrait, it's ceramic and it's from Hermannsburg.
Christopher Chapman absorbs the gentle touch of Don Bachardy’s portraiture.
Bon Scott and Angus Young photographed by Rennie Ellis are part of a display celebrating summer and images of the shirtless male.
Judith Pugh reflects on Clifton Pugh's approach to portrait making.
Diana O’Neil samples the tartan treats on offer in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery.
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.
It’s a matter beyond dispute that in the entire history of Australian art, it’s Noel McKenna who’s painted the liveliest rendition of the head of a Chihuahua.
Sarah Engledow lauds the very civil service of Dame Helen Blaxland.
Alwin Reamillo was born in Manila, Philippines in 1964. He studied painting at the University of the Philippines College of Fine Arts, and began his career as a visual art teacher at the Philippine High School for the Arts.
Christopher Chapman highlights the inaugural hang of the new National Portrait Gallery building which opened in December 2008.
The complex connections between four creative Australians; Patrick White, Sidney Nolan, Robert Helpmann and Peter Sculthorpe.
To accompany the exhibition Cecil Beaton: Portraits, held at the NPG in 2005, this article is drawn from Hugo Vickers's authorised biography, Cecil Beaton (1985).
Penelope Grist reminisces about the halcyon days of a print icon, before the infusion of the internet’s shades of grey.