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William Robinson

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.

Leah King-Smith

Born: 1957, Gympie, QLD
Works: Brisbane

An international troupe of two

Office romance

Ben Roberts-Smith, 2018

Commissioned in 2018 with funds raised through the 2020 project

Blue Wolf, 2014

Finalist, MDPA 2014

Our only concern is the void, 2013

Winner, MDPA 2013

Extraordinary airmen make aviation history

Charles is my wingman

Icons Syndicate

2021 Annual Appeal

In 2021 the Annual Appeal was focussed on Peter Brew-Bevan's portraits of athletes Turia Pitt, Leisel Jones OAM and Ellie Cole OAM.

Contributing artists

Find out more from each of the artists reinterpreting and reimagining elements of Australian history.

Favourite portraits

National Portrait Gallery staff introduce their favourite portraits from the exhibition.

2020 Annual Appeal

In 2020 the Annual Appeal was focussed on Sally Robinson's remarkable portrait of author Tim Winton.

The Lawson

It’s curious that one of the writers most associated with the toughness of Australian bush life was himself not an exponent of the matted, rugged bushman sort of beard.

The Parkes

It wasn’t uncommon for the pro-beard fraternity of the mid nineteenth century to cite beards as a sign of wisdom on the grounds that Socrates and other ancient philosophers had worn them.

Annual Appeal

The National Portrait Prizes

The National Portrait Gallery today announced finalists for the inaugural Darling Portrait Prize, a national new $75,000 prize for Australian portrait painting, and released selected images from the final prize pool for the popular National Photography Portrait Prize.