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Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Commissioned 2010
Commissioned with funds provided by Malcolm and Lucy Turnbull 2003
Professor Stephen Fitzgerald, Australia’s first Ambassador to China, traces the historical course from sino-australian cultural engagement to a maturing Australian identity.
Commissioned with funds provided by the Patrick Corrigan Portrait Commission Series 2014
In this exhibition Sydney based photographer Peter Brew-Bevan brings together an intimate collection of works that highlight his passion for the genre of portraiture over the last 10 years
Sir Charles Nicholson (1808-1903), statesman, landowner, businessman, connoisseur, scholar and physician, was born illegitimately into unpropitious circumstances in Yorkshire.
2 portraits in the collection
Seventeen of Australia’s thirty prime ministers to date are represented in the contrasting sizes, moods and mediums of these portraits.
Ashleigh Wadman rediscovers the Australian characters represented with a kindly touch by the British portrait artist Leslie Ward for the society magazine Vanity Fair.
The considered matching of artist to subject has produced an amazing collection of unique and original works in the permanent collection of the National Portrait Gallery
Jon Muir, adventurer and Portrait Gallery Collection subject, really knows about isolation.
Andrew Sayers outlines the highlights of the National Portrait Gallery's display of portrait sculpture.
Pushpamala N. was born in 1956 in Bangalore. Her early training was in sculpture, but as her practice progressed she brought an early enthusiasm for narrative figuration into her photographic work.
At just 7.8 x 6.2 cm, the daguerreotype of Thomas Sutcliffe Mort and his wife Theresa is one of the smallest works in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery.
Sarah Engledow on Messrs Dobell and MacMahon and the art of friendship.
Sarah Engledow explores the history of the prime ministers and artists featured in the exhibition.
Australian character on the market by Jane Raffan.