Grace Carroll on the gendered world of the Wentworths.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased through the Foundation Acquisitions Fund 2015
Andrew Sayers outlines the highlights of the National Portrait Gallery's display of portrait sculpture.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by L Gordon Darling AC CMG 2009
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the Simpson family in memory of Caroline Simpson OAM 2008
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program
In 2006 the National Portrait Gallery acquired a splendid portrait of Victoria's first governor, Lieutenant Governor Charles Joseph La Trobe by Thomas Woolner.
Purchased 2006
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2000
Thomas Woolner, sculptor, studied first with the brothers Henry and William Behnes, painter and sculptor respectively, and later at the Royal Academy, at which he was to become professor of sculpture in his fifties.
5 portraits in the collection
