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Purchased 2008. The original frame for this work was donated to the National Portrait Gallery of Australia by the National Gallery of Victoria 2009.
Purchased 2008. The original frame for this work was donated to the National Portrait Gallery of Australia by the National Gallery of Victoria 2009.
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
Lee Tulloch remembers her great friend NIDA-trained actor turned photographer Stuart Campbell.
Tegan McAuley looks at the evolution of video portraiture.
Christopher Chapman profiles Chris Lilley, actor and creator of Angry Boys.
Commissioned with funds provided by The Calvert-Jones Foundation 2018
Inga Walton on the brief but brilliant life of Hugh Ramsay.
Commissioned with funds provided by Jim and Barbara Higgins, Sir Roderick Carnegie AC, Rupert Myer AO and Annabel Myer, Louise and Martyn Myer Foundation, Peter and Ruth McMullin, Diana Carlton, Professor Derek Denton AC, Harold Mitchell AC, Peter Jopling AM KC, Andrew and Liz Mackenzie, Patricia Patten, Tamie Fraser AO, Bruce Parncutt and Robin Campbell, Lauraine Diggins, Steven Skala AO and Lousje Skala 2017
How the National Portrait Gallery and its unique collection came to be
The first index I created was for my first book, and, to my astonishment, that was almost twenty-five years ago.
In their own words lead researcher Louise Maher on the novel project that lets the Gallery’s portraits speak for themselves.
Joanna Gilmour travels through time to explore the National Portrait Gallery London’s masterpieces in Shakespeare to Winehouse.
Penelope Grist speaks to Robert McFarlane about shooting for the stars.
The portrait of Dr. Johann Reinhold Forster and his son George Forster from 1780, is one of the oldest in the NPG's collection.
Joanna Gilmour explores the life of a colonial portrait artist, writer and rogue Thomas Griffiths Wainewright.