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Robert Hannaford has completed around 400 portraits over the span of his career.
Lowitja O'Donoghue discusses her life and portrait by Robert Hannaford.
Tim Flannery and artist Robert Hannaford discuss the creation of Tim's portrait.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Professor Tim Flannery 2016
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program
How the National Portrait Gallery and its unique collection came to be
This issue of Portrait Magazine features Robert Hannaford, Walter Lindrum, John Brack, judicial portraits, Vincent Lingiari and more.
This display celebrates 100 years of the Historic Memorials Collection and its role in commissioning portraits of parliamentary and judicial figures in Australia.
Celebrates the centenary of the first national art collection, the Historic Memorials Collection, housed at Australia's Parliament House.
Andrew Sayers asks whether a portrait can truly be the examination of a life.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Janet, Andrew, Kathryn and Eleanor Ramsay, daughters and son of Alexander Maurice Ramsay and Amy Jane Ramsay
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of R. Ian Lloyd 2010
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program
In his speech launching the new National Portrait Gallery building on 3 December 2008, then Prime Minister Kevin Rudd set the Gallery in a national and historical context.
Studio: Australian Painters Photographed by R
Dr Sarah Engledow explores the portraits of writers held in the National Portrait Gallery's collection.
Drawn from some of the many donations made to the Gallery's collection, the exhibition Portraits for Posterity pays homage both to the remarkable (and varied) group of Australians who are portrayed in the portraits and the generosity of the many donors who have presented them to the Gallery.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Commissioned with funds donated by BHP Billiton Limited, Rio Tinto Aboriginal Fund, Newmont Australia Limited, Reconciliation Australia, Hon Paul Keating and Hon Fred Chaney 2006