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The National Portrait Gallery acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of Country throughout Australia and recognises the continuing connection to lands, waters and communities. We pay our respect to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures and to Elders both past and present.

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MacKenzie family silhouette

MacKenzie family silhouette

MacKenzie family silhouette

MacKenzie family silhouette, 1846

Portrait, brush and ink, pen and ink, stencil cut-out with watercolour highlights on paper

Gift of the Estate of Nancy Wiseman 2007

My Friendly Island Cooks, 2023 Latai Taumoepeau, Stelios Papadakis (Photographer) , Sēini Fale'aka Taumoepeau (Kahoa/garland) , Maria José Taumoepeau (Make-up artist)

My Friendly Island Cooks

Latai Taumoepeau, Stelios Papadakis (Photographer) , Sēini Fale'aka Taumoepeau (Kahoa/garland) , Maria José Taumoepeau (Make-up artist)

Maria, 2022 Sean Hutton

Maria

MacKenzie family silhouette

Pictorial profiles of hearth and home

Nearest & Dearest

Keep it in the family

Art Handlers' Award DPP 2022

Art Handlers' Award

General content

The Art Handlers' Award for 2022 went to Weight of the Mind's Periapt, 2021 by Jane Allan.

An evening at Yarra Cottage, Port Stephens

Home is where the heart is

Nearest & Dearest

For richer, for poorer

Major Thomas Lord

Thomas Lord

Thomas Daunt Lord (1783–1865) was the commandant of the convict station on Maria Island from 1825 until 1832.

1 portrait in the collection

Major Thomas Lord

Major Thomas Lord

Major Thomas Lord

Major Thomas Lord, c. 1840

Portrait, oil on canvas

Purchased 2015

Barry Jones

Barry Jones

Barry Jones

Barry Jones, 2020

Portrait, oil on masonite

Purchased with funds provided by Marilyn Darling AC, Allan Myers AC KC and Maria Myers AC 2022

Gladys Cotta

Gladys Cotta

Gladys Cotta

Gladys Cotta, 1984

Portrait, pastel on paper

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Joseph Mathew Cotta and Gladys Maria Cotta 2016

Joseph Cotta

Joseph Cotta

Joseph Cotta

Joseph Cotta, 1984

Portrait, pastel on paper

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Joseph Mathew Cotta and Gladys Maria Cotta 2016

Lost, 2018 by Jay Hynes

Lost, 2018

Henry Louis Bertrand, ca. 1865 photographed by the Milligan Brothers. Collection of the State Library of NSW

A passion eating into your vitals

The ‘Mad Dentist of Wynyard Square’ in court, 18 December 1865

About Face article

The salacious and sordid details of Henry Kinder’s death transfixed Sydneysiders with a case combining murder with seduction, mesmerism, blackmail and poisoning.

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Artist interviews

General content

Richard Windeyer

Richard Windeyer

Richard Windeyer

Richard Windeyer, c. 1828

Charles Richard Bone

Portrait, watercolour on ivory in a gold pendant with a lock of hair and gold thread

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

King Charles I, 1628 Gerrit van Honthorst

King Charles I

Gerrit van Honthorst

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