Portrait 35 / March - May 2010

Michael Desmond examines the career of the eighteenth-century suspected poisoner and portrait artist Thomas Griffiths Wainewright.

Dr Christopher Chapman, curator and judge of the National Photographic Portrait Prize 2009 contextualises the themes of the exhibition.

Family affections are preserved in a fine selection of intimate portraits.

Photographer Ricky Maynard talks us through the creation of the portrait commission of Mick Dodson.

Gavin Fry examines the art and career of the Australian painter Rick Amor.

Michael Desmond examines the daguerreotype portraits created by American artist Chuck Close.

Aircraft designer, pilot and entrepreneur, Sir Lawrence Wackett rejoins friends and colleagues on the walls of the National Portrait Gallery.

Dr Christopher Chapman examines Scott Redford's photographic portrait of Australian surfer David 'Rasta' Rastovich.