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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.
Joanna Gilmour describes how artist Sam Leach works on a small scale to grand effect.
Marian Anderson’s glorious voice thrust her into stardom, and a more reluctant role as American civil rights pioneer.
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.
Michael Desmond explores what makes a portrait subject significant.
Joanna Gilmour explores the life of a colonial portrait artist, writer and rogue Thomas Griffiths Wainewright.
Grace Carroll contemplates the curious case of Christian Waller.
An exploration of national identity in the Canadian context drawn from the symposium Face to Face at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery in 2004.
Inga Walton traces the poignant path of photographer Polixeni Papapetrou, revealed in the NGV’s summer retrospective.
Penelope Grist finds inspiration in pioneering New Zealand artist, Frances Hodgkins.
David Gist steps beyond the public relations veneer of Australia’s official Vietnam War portrait photographs.
Joanna Gilmour travels through time to explore the National Portrait Gallery London’s masterpieces in Shakespeare to Winehouse.
Karen Vickery on Chang the Chinese giant in Australia.
Joanna Gilmour reflects on 25 years of collecting at the National Portrait Gallery.
Christopher Chapman takes a trip through the doors of perception, arriving at the junction of surrealism and psychoanalysis.
Sandra Bruce gazes on love and the portrait through Australian Love Stories’ multi-faceted prism.