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The exhibition Portraits for Posterity celebrates gifts to the Gallery, of purchases made with donated funds, and testifies to the generosity and community spirit of Australians.
Andrew Sayers outlines the highlights of the National Portrait Gallery's display of portrait sculpture.
Dr G Yunupingu (1970-2017), a man of the Gumatj clan of north-east Arnhem Land, learned to play guitar, keyboard, drums and didgeridoo as a child.
Phil Manning celebrates a century of Brisbane photographic portraiture.
The National Portrait Gallery acquired a beguiling silhouette group portrait by Samuel Metford, an English artist who spent periods of his working life in America.
Angus Trumble salutes the glorious portraiture of Sir Thomas Lawrence.
David Solkin ponders the provocations and inspirations of the enigmatic Thomas Gainsborough.
An exhibition devoted to Hans Holbein's English commissions shows the portraitist bringing across the Channel new technical developments in art - with a dazzling facility.
Lecture by Sandy Nairne, Director, National Portrait Gallery, London, given at the National Portrait Gallery, Canberra on 28 April 2006.
Henry Mundy's portraits flesh out notions of propriety and good taste in a convict colony.
A reflection on the National Portrait Gallery's first four years.
Michael Desmond discusses the portrait of Senator Neville Bonner by Robert Campbell Jnr.
Joanna Gilmour travels through time to explore the National Portrait Gallery London’s masterpieces in Shakespeare to Winehouse.
Dempsey’s People curator David Hansen chronicles a research tale replete with serendipity, adventure and Tasmanian tigers.
The acquisition of the ivory miniatures of Mortimer and Mrs Lewis.
Angus Trumble ponders the many faces of William Bligh.