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The Saints, 1978 (printed 2018)

Purchased with funds provided by Wayne Williams 2018

Dr Hugh Kingsley Ward, n.d.

Gift of Danina Dupain Anderson 2017. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

Vanity fair

Ashleigh Wadman rediscovers the Australian characters represented with a kindly touch by the British portrait artist Leslie Ward for the society magazine Vanity Fair.

Phil (Phil May), 1895

Gift of Mr Ronald Walker 2001

Rachel Ward and Bryan Brown, 2006 (printed 2020)

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2020

Dan (Sir Daniel Cooper), 1890s

Gift of Ronald A Walker 2009. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

The Demon bowler (Frederick Robert Spofforth), 1878

Purchased 2015

a Postmaster General (Sir James Fergusson), 1892

Purchased 2014

Australia (The Hon. Alfred Deakin), 1908

Gift of Ronald A Walker 2009. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

Aldershot Cavalry (Major General Reginald Talbot), 1897

Purchased 2013

a squatter (Sir Samuel Wilson), 1885

Gift of Mr Ronald Walker 2001

Sydney (Sir Daniel Cooper), 1882

Gift of Mr Ronald Walker 2001

The Demon bowler (Frederick Robert Spofforth), 1878

Purchased 2002

Ducker (Douglas Hamilton McLean), 1897

Purchased 2015

H. Searle Professional Champion Sculler of the World (Henry Searle), 1889

Purchased 2014

Australia (Sir Edmund Barton), 1902

Gift of Mr Ronald Walker 2001

International Penny Postage (Mr John Henniker Heaton MP), 1887

Gift of Ronald Walker 2002

Saide, R.Y.S. (Charles Gibson Millar), 1894

Purchased 2015

Westralia (Mr Albert Frederick Calvert), 1895

Gift of Ronald Walker 2002

Chelsea Hospital (Sir Henry Wylie Norman), 1903

Purchased 2015

The Australian Commonwealth (Henry Stafford Northcote), 1904

Gift of Ronald A Walker 2009. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

The Cape of Good Hope ( Sir Henry Barkly), 1887

Purchased 2015

The Cape High Commissioner (Sir Henry Brougham Loch), 1894

Gift of Ronald A Walker 2009. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

Peace and War (Mr A. G. Hales), 1908

Gift of Ronald A Walker 2009. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

Fairie (A W Cox), 1910

Purchased 2015

fresh from the Channel Fleet (Sir Harry Holdsworth Rawson), 1901

Purchased 2015

Small Holdings (The Earl Carrington Baron Charles Robert Carrington), 1907

Gift of Ronald Walker 2002

New South Wales (Earl Beauchamp), 1899

Gift of Ronald A Walker 2009. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

Frank Wootton, c. 1908

Gift of Ronald A Walker 2009. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

New South Wales (Earl of Jersey Victor Albert George Child-Villiers), 1890

Gift of Mr Ronald Walker 2001

First Conservative Whip (Sir Alexander Fuller-Acland-Hood Bart MP), 1903

Gift of Ronald Walker 2002

Candidate for Chelsea (9th Earl of Kintore), 1880

Purchased 2015

Western Australia (Sir Frederick Bedford), 1903

Purchased 2015

a Traveller (2nd Baron Lamington), 1892

Purchased 2015

The Lord Chamberlain (Earl of Hopetoun John Adrian Louis Hope), 1900

Gift of Mr Ronald Walker 2001

Californian clinch in the ‘Australian’ outback

Long-term love scene

Norman and "Peter Ward", c. 1906

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2008

Yarnangu

Acacius (Stigmata) - Tony Carden, 1991

Gift of Lesley Saddington 2015

Bryan Brown, 2008

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2013

Release, 2010

Peter O'Shaughnessy, 1947

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 1999

Hedda Morrison, 1941 (printed 2004)

Gift of the artist 2004

Icons Syndicate

Colleen McCullough, 1992-1993 (printed 2005)

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2005

George Lambert

An examination of the life and times of George Lambert through the gesture and pose in his self portrait. 

Steve Kilbey, 1981 (printed 2018)

Purchased with funds provided by Wayne Williams 2018

Boy with surfboard cross: David Rastovich, 1999 (printed 2005)

Gift of the artist 2009. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

National Portrait Gallery Director announced

The National Portrait Gallery welcomes Angus Trumble

Hide/Seek

David Ward writes about the exhibition Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture on display at the National Portrait Gallery, Washington.

2020 Annual Appeal

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

Australian Love Stories

A major new exhibition celebrating love in all its guises. Opening 20 March 2021.

Harriet Schwarzrock: spaces between movement and stillness

To celebrate the new exhibition Australian Love Stories, renowned Australian glass artist Harriet Schwarzrock has been commissioned to make a large-scale installation reflecting on the role the heart plays as our emotional centre.

Stigma stigmata

Angus Trumble provides poignant context for Aña Wojak’s portrait of Tony Carden.

National Photographic Portrait Prize 2023

The exhibition is selected from a national field of entries, reflecting the distinctive vision of Australia's aspiring and professional portrait photographers and the unique nature of their subjects.

The jungle look

David Gist steps beyond the public relations veneer of Australia’s official Vietnam War portrait photographs.

Annual Appeal

The last word

David Hansen’s tribute to his close friend, prince of words and former National Portrait Gallery director, the late Angus Trumble.

Life class

Barbara Blackman reflects on her experiences as a life model.

Indexing, the art of

The first index I created was for my first book, and, to my astonishment, that was almost twenty-five years ago.

The fat of the land

Sir Sidney Kidman (1857-1935) is inscribed in Australian legend as the ‘Cattle King’. 

Meeting by Murder

The story behind two colonial portraits; a lithograph of captain and convict John Knatchbull and newspaper illustration of Robert Lowe, Viscount Sherbrooke.

A rogue's calling card

Joanna Gilmour explores the stories behind the ninteenth-century carte de visites of bushrangers Frank Gardiner and Fred Lowry.

Hired guns, bounty hunters and horse whisperers

Jude Rae contemplates the portrait commission.

All the way with K of K

Sarah Engledow bristles at the biographers’ neglect of Kitchener’s antipodean intervention.

Inner Worlds and psychoanalysis

Inner Worlds evokes a broad view of psychology as a discipline. However, the specific interests of the practitioners whose portraits are included in the exhibition incorporate specialist areas including psychoanalysis.

Faces of war

Lesley Harding, Curator, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne explores Albert Tucker’s experience of World War II, his interests in the intersection between psychology and creativity, and their influence on his portrait making.