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Sauvages Des Montagnes-Bleues from de Freycinet, Louis - Voyage autour du monde, Paris, c. 1822
Forget after Alphonse Pellion
Portrait, engraving on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Ted and Gina Gregg 2012
Louis-Antoine, Comte de Bougainville, c. 1825
Forget
Portrait, stipple engraving on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2015
The Companion
Permanent collection catalogue
Publications
On one level The Companion talks about the most famous and frontline Australians, but on another it tells us about ourselves.
Impressions
Painting light and life
Previous exhibition, 2011
Impressions: Painting light and life presents portraits by, and of, artists at the heart of Australian impressionism including Tom Roberts, Arthur Streeton and Frederick McCubbin.
Jimmy and Jane Barnes, 2020
Jesse Lizotte
Portrait, inkjet print on paper
Purchased 2021
Carla Zampatti
In their own words
In their own words
Recorded 2019
Wenten Rubuntja AM
Biography
Wenten Rubuntja AM (1923–2005) was an Arrernte law man, committee and board member, artist, historian, storyteller and intermediary.
2 portraits in the collection
Wenten Rubuntja, 1998
Greg Weight
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Gift of Patrick Corrigan AM 2004. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Wenten Rubuntja, 2001
Greg Weight
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Gift of Patrick Corrigan AM 2004. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Fiona McMonagle
Contributing artists
Born: 1977, Letterkenny, Ireland
Works: Melbourne
William Barak
In their own words
In their own words
Mark Mohell
Biography
Mark Mohell has been Image Services Manager at the National Portrait Gallery, Canberra since 2010.
1 portrait in the collection
Jenny Sages
Biography
Jenny Sages (b. 1933), artist, was born to Russian Jewish parents in Shanghai and came to Australia with her family in 1948.
34 portraits in the collection
World building
National Photographic Portrait Prize 2026
Discover how artists use photography to explore their imagination.
The intellectual larrikin
Magazine article by Barrie Cassidy, 2019
Barrie Cassidy pays textured tribute to the inimitable Bob Hawke.
Adrian Brown
NPPP 2012 learning resource
An interview with the photographer.