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Hans Heysen

Recorded 1960

Mary Neville, Lady Dacre and Gregory Fiennes, 10th Baron Dacre

Hans Heysen, 1960 (cast 2004)

Purchased with funds provided by the Basil Bressler Bequest 2004

Favourite portraits

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

The Jester (self portrait), 1923

Gift of Sir Richard Kingsland AO CBE DFC 2003. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

Leanne Benjamin, 1999 (printed 2022)

Purchased 2022

King Henry VIII

Self portrait, 1934

Purchased 1999

A new perspective

An exhibition devoted to Hans Holbein's English commissions shows the portraitist bringing across the Channel new technical developments in art - with a dazzling facility.

Michael Kimmelman

Michael Kimmelman, Chief Art Critic of The New York Times and author of Portraits: Talking with Artists at the Met, the Modern, the Louvre and Elsewhere, presented the National Portrait Gallery Third Anniversary Lecture on 2 March 2002. He was generously brought to Australia by the Gordon Darling Foundation and Qantas.

To Look Within

This exhibition is the first comprehensive survey of self-portraits in Australia, from the colonial period to the present

First Ladies

First Ladies profiles women who have achieved noteworthy firsts over the past 100 years.