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Banksia and grevillea

Portraits can render honour to remarkable men and women, but there are other ways.

The outlaws coolly disported themselves

'Each man arrayed himself in a new rig from head to foot, and even such luxuries as soaps and perfumery were not despised'

First Ladies

First Ladies profiles women who have achieved noteworthy firsts over the past 100 years.

Pin-ups

Christopher Chapman describes the art and life of Australian artist Richard Larter.

Sideshow Alley

Death masks, post-mortem drawings and other spooky and disquieting portraits... Come and see how portraits of infamous Australians were used in the 19th century.

Time and light

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.

Pretty in peach

The long game

Penelope Grist spends some quality time with the Portrait Gallery’s summer collection exhibition, Eye to Eye.

Enigma

Grace Carroll contemplates the curious case of Christian Waller.

Wunderkind lost

Inga Walton on the brief but brilliant life of Hugh Ramsay.

An actress and her fans

Dr. Sarah Engledow discovers the amazing life of Ms. Hilda Spong, little remembered star of the stage, who was captured in a portrait by Tom Roberts.