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The last bushrangers

Brothers in harms

Dream date delivers destiny

The perfect match

Donors

Portrait stories

A selection of audiovisual stories about the artists and subjects in the National Portrait Gallery's collection.

Kate

The two portraits that I've chosen to compare and contrast and to bring together a self portrait by John Brack in 1955, and William Yang, Self Portrait #2.

Fred Hilmer, 2018

Commissioned with funds provided by Dr Helen Nugent AO 2018

Shifting the definition

Defiant commitment

National Portrait Gallery unveils twenty new portrait commissions to celebrate twenty years

The National Portrait Gallery has unveiled twenty new portrait commissions of Australian leaders and individualists as part of its twentieth birthday celebrations in a new exhibition, 20/20: Celebrating twenty years with twenty new portrait commissions.

The photographers

The eight photographers represent diverse styles, specialities and career paths. Abigail Varney, Peter Brew-Bevan, Martin Philbey, John Tsiavis, Michelle Day, Julian Kingma, and Giovanni Lovisetto.

2013-14 Acquisition Fund

This 1910 portrait of Elizabeth Sarah (Lillie) Roberts by Tom Roberts was brought into the Gallery's collection with the assistance of the Acquisition Fund in 2013.

Supporters

All at sea

Tiny token, big love

Denton Corker Marshall

Denton Corker Marshall is based in Melbourne with offices in London and Jakarta.

Welcome home, Captain Bligh

The National Portrait Gallery will, next Tuesday, unveil an exciting new acquisition of irrefutable importance to all Australians. Portrait of William Bligh, in master’s uniform c. 1776, attributed to John Webber, is one of the earliest portraits of the contentious, historical figure, and extends the Gallery’s remarkable collection of early colonial portraits.

To coin a (farewell) phrase

A penny for their thoughts

Buoyant Brack brood breeds inspiration

Domesticity’s creative maelstrom