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Of Burke, Wills ... and wills
It's Complicated
Infatuation and (ill-fated) exploration
The Burke
Beards
A big daddy of a beard; long; bushy; rugged, but not unkempt; typically found on the faces of explorers or bushrangers.
The Lyster
Beards
A strong, silent type of beard; bushy and manly, but also shaped and contained, a restrained version of a Burke or a Parkes.
Beards
Style guide
The Burke, The Parkes, The Lambert...
The Brougham
Beards
A philosopher-style of beard – thick and lengthy; a greyer, hence wiser version of the Burke; and suited to older men who saw themselves as sagacious or statesmanlike.
New appointments to the National Portrait Gallery Board
5 November 2024
Media
Minster for the Arts, The Hon. Tony Burke MP has today announced new appointments to the National Portrait Gallery Board, including Ms Sam Meers AO, who will succeed Mrs Penny Fowler AM as Chair in March 2025.
Immediately, there was a crackle
It's Complicated
A meeting of minds
The artist and the doctor
Lust
Art, war, scandal
Hearts and craft
Passion
The long game
Who's Jo?
General content
Find out about the curator of the exhibition.
2022 Annual Appeal
Annual Appeal
In 2022 the Annual Appeal was focussed on Mayatjara by Robert Fielding, a series of 24 photographs of Elders of the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara community.
All the world's a stage
General content
Joan Sutherland, Robert Helpmann and Raigh Roe
Paul Kelly and The Portraits media information
18 June 2013
Archived media releases 2013
Paul Kelly & The Portraits presents a multifaceted image of the performer over the course of his career.
Tough & Tender Media Release
14 July 2016
Archived media releases 2016
Photographs from internationally acclaimed artists Robert Mapplethorpe, Larry Clark, Nan Goldin, Collier Schorr and Chris Burden along with contemporary Australian artists, Rozalind Drummond and Warwick Baker will call the National Portrait Gallery home during our extraordinary winter exhibition Tough and Tender.
The 1850s to the 1880s
Mo and beard timeline
The restrained and cultivated facial hair fashions evident through the first decades of the 1800s were on the wane by the middle of the century, when hirsute faces became mainstream.
Shifting the definition
Nearest & Dearest
Defiant commitment