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William Robinson, 2016 by Mark Mohell

William Robinson

Explore The Popular Pet Show

Unique in the world, perhaps, is a bronze sculpture that fuses the age-old human portrait bronze tradition, and the later genre of the bronze pug figurine: that’d be William Robinson’s Self-portrait with pug.

William Robertson and Martha Mary Robertson

A charming prospect

Nearest & Dearest

Family fortunes

William Bligh

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Welcome home, Captain Bligh

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2000

Portrait Donors

A map of the path for walking to the Gallery from Civic

Pedestrian Access

Directions for walking to the Gallery from Civic.

Breakfast

Begin your day in an elegant, convivial, award-winning building.

Kate

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.

Cocktail reception

We can provide a stunning, sophisticated space for your cocktail reception.

Jane Franklin

Jane’s conviction

Stand by your man

Conference or seminar

We can tailor our spaces to suit your conference, seminar or forum.

William Bligh

Welcome home, Captain Bligh

Archived media releases 2015

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.

Wedding

Allow us to paint the possibilities of your wedding reception.

Graham Sylvester's crowd, Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras, 1983 William Yang

From riot to revelry

Nearest & Dearest

Pride, protest, panache

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2022

Portrait Donors

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Donors

Gordon Darling Hall, National Portrait Gallery

Architecture

Natural light and human proportions – the design by Johnson Pilton Walker

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