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Gareth Knapman explores the politics and opportunism behind the portraits of Tasmania’s Black War.
How the National Portrait Gallery and its unique collection came to be
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by L Gordon Darling AC CMG and Marilyn Darling AC 2013
Elegance in exile is an exhibition surveying the work of Richard Read senior, Thomas Bock, Thomas Griffiths Wainewright and Charles Rodius: four artists who, though exiled to Australia as convicts, created many of the most significant and elegant portraits of the colonial period.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2011
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by Allanah Dopson & Nicholas Heyward 2009
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2010
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2010
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by James Bain AM and Janette Bain 2010
Christopher Chapman highlights the inaugural hang of the new National Portrait Gallery building which opened in December 2008.
English artist Benjamin Duterrau took up the cause of the Indigenous peoples of Tasmania with his detailed and sympathetic renderings.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by
Allanah Dopson & Nicholas Heyward 2009
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by Allanah Dopson and Nicholas Heyward 2009
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by the Ian Potter Foundation 2009
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by the Ian Potter Foundation 2009
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2006