11 January 2016
The National Portrait Gallery mourns the loss of one our most generous benefactors, Robert Oatley AO.
1 January 2015
In recent years I have become fascinated by the so-called Sydney Cove Medallion (1789), a work of art that bridges the 10,000-mile gap between the newly established penal settlement at Port Jackson and the beating heart of Enlightenment England.
Betty Churcher describes the creation of the portrait of Captain James Cook in the National Portrait Gallery.