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Family affections are preserved in a fine selection of intimate portraits.
Sarah Engledow on Messrs Dobell and MacMahon and the art of friendship.
Sarah Engledow lauds the very civil service of Dame Helen Blaxland.
Diana O’Neil samples the tartan treats on offer in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery.
The portrait of Janet and Horace Keats with the spirit of the poet Christopher Brennan is brought to life by artist Dora Toovey.
Jane Raffan examines unique styles of Indigenous portraiture that challenge traditional Western concepts of the artform.
Celebrating a new painted portrait of Joseph Banks, Sarah Engledow spins a yarn of the naturalist, the first kangaroo in France and Don, a Spanish ram.
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).
Vanity Fair Editor David Friend describes how the rebirth of the magazine sated our desire for access into the lives of celebrities and set the standard for the new era of portrait photography.
Works by Arthur Boyd and Sidney Nolan bring the desert, the misty seashore and the hot Monaro plains to exhibition Open Air: Portraits in the landscape.
Joanna Gilmour explores photographic depictions of Aboriginal sportsmen including Lionel Rose, Dave Sands, Jerry Jerome and Douglas Nicholls.
John Singer Sargent: a painter at the vanguard of contemporary movements in music, literature and theatre.