Gilbert Stuart was an American painter who arrived in London by way of Scotland in 1775.
1 portrait in the collection
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2012
Melbourne Cantonese restaurateur Gilbert Lau (b. 1943) is renowned as the consummate host of the Flower Drum - for remembering your last visit, who you were with and what you ate.
1 portrait in the collection
Kevin Gilbert (1933-1993), Indigenous activist, writer and artist, wrote the first play by an Aboriginal person to be publicly performed in Australia.
2 portraits in the collection
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2005
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2013
Gift of the artist 2010
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2001. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
The series 'David Moore: From Face to Face' was acquired as a gift of the artist and with financial assistance from Timothy Fairfax AC and L Gordon Darling AC CMG 2001.
Guy Stuart (b. 1942) studied under John Brack at Melbourne Grammar School between 1956 and 1960.
1 portrait in the collection
The late Australian photographer Stuart Campbell produced superb photographs of Australian actors of stage and screen.
Stuart O'Grady (b. 1973) a European-based Australian professional cyclist.
1 portrait in the collection
Stuart Campbell, born in Ballarat, became interested in photography as a student at Swinburne Technical College in Melbourne.
10 portraits in the collection
Stuart Spence (b. 1960) born in Geelong, Victoria, established his career in Sydney during the 1980s and 1990s, as a magazine photographer specialising in celebrity portraiture.
2 portraits in the collection
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2012
Lee Tulloch remembers her great friend NIDA-trained actor turned photographer Stuart Campbell.
Commissioned 2008
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the Estate of Stuart Campbell 2012
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the Estate of Stuart Campbell 2012
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the Estate of Stuart Campbell 2012
Gift of the Estate of Stuart Campbell 2012
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2019
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the Estate of Stuart Campbell 2012
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the Estate of Stuart Campbell 2012
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the Estate of Stuart Campbell 2012
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the Estate of Stuart Campbell 2012
Gift of the Estate of Stuart Campbell 2012
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the Estate of Stuart Campbell 2012
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2016
Penelope Grist charts an immersive path through Stuart Spence’s photography.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2016
Alistair McGhie writes about the portraits of three of Australia's top professional cyclists: Cadel Evans, Stuart O'Grady and Robbie McEwen painted by Matthys Gerber.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by L Gordon Darling AC CMG 2009
Australian Galleries Director Stuart Purves tells the story of two portraits by John Brack.
James Heath commenced an apprenticeship with an engraver named Joseph Collyer at the age of fourteen.
2 portraits in the collection
More photographs by Bob King, Stuart Spence, 'pling, Tony Mott, and Wendy McDougall.
This issue features the National Photographic Portrait Prize, Neil Murray, Lee Tulloch on Stuart Campbell, Joseph Banks, Scott Redford and more.
This issue of Portrait Magazine features the inaugural hang of the new National Portrait Gallery, Cadel Evans, Stuart O'Grady, Robbie McEwen, Casey Stoner, Bruce Petty and more.
Gilbert Eric Douglas (1902-1970), pilot and air force officer, took part in Sir Douglas Mawson's British, Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (BANZARE) of 1929-1931.
1 portrait in the collection
Intimate Portraits is an exhibition of paintings, drawings and prints that explore the less public side of portraiture
Gift of Sally Douglas 2009
James Cassius Williamson (1845-1913), actor and theatrical entrepreneur, worked and performed in theatres in his native USA before coming to Victoria under contract to George Selth Coppin in 1874.
1 portrait in the collection
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2008
Little Darlings is for primary and secondary students, with four separate categories across Kindergarten to Year 12. Responding to the theme ‘identity’, students painted, drew, photographed, printed or combined all of these to make their portrait.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2002
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program
John Kaldor, textile designer and manufacturer, was born in Hungary. He came to Australia with his family in 1948.
1 portrait in the collection
Fred Lowry (1836-1863) was a stockman before he turned to cattle and horse duffing.
1 portrait in the collection
Gladys Moncrieff (1892-1976), soprano, grew up in Queensland, where she first toured as 'Little Gladys - The Australian Wonder Child' with a small musical road show.
4 portraits in the collection
Artistic Director of The Australian Ballet, David McAllister AM will join the Portrait Gallery’s national collection in a newly-commissioned portrait taken by illustrious Australian photographer, Peter Brew-Bevan.
Thomas Purves (1909-1969), known as Tam, founded the Australian Galleries in Smith Street, Collingwood, Melbourne with his wife Anne in 1956.
1 portrait in the collection
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 1999
The Board oversees the Gallery's strategic directions, objectives and governance.
Dora was the fourth child of Doretta and Stuart Alexander, her father the owner of a farming property near Albury, New South Wales.
1 portrait in the collection
Will Huxley grew up in the suburbs of Perth, Western Australia, and Garrett Huxley was raised on the Gold Coast, Queensland.
3 portraits in the collection
Tim Storrier AM (b. 1949), painter, studied at the National Art School from 1967 to 1969.
4 portraits in the collection
Garrett Huxley (b. 1973) was born in Melbourne and raised on the Gold Coast.
3 portraits in the collection
Will Huxley (b. 1982) was born in Bath, England, emigrating with his family at the age of seven to grow up in the suburbs of Perth.
3 portraits in the collection
Gift of Patrick Corrigan AM 2004. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Francis Gardiner (Christie) (1830-c. 1903), bushranger, came to New South Wales with his family as a child.
1 portrait in the collection
Purchased 2020
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 1999
Courtesy of the Corrigan family and Stuart Purves
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2012
Commissioned with funds provided by The Stuart Leslie Foundation 2016
Commissioned with funds provided by The Stuart Leslie Foundation 2016
Gift of the family of Aimée Viola Horsley, daughter of J.C. Williamson 2009. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of David Combe 1998
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program
The votes are in and the National Portrait Gallery is pleased to announce The Honourable Bob Hawke savouring a strawberry milkshake by Harold David is the people’s choice for the National Photographic Portrait Prize 2018.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the Estate of Leslie Walford AM 2013
Australia's former Cultural Attache to the USA, Ron Ramsey, describes the mood at the opening week of the revitalised American National Portrait Gallery.
Francis William Barnard Walford (1821–1896), businessman and landowner, was born in Hobart, the son of Barnard Walford (1801–1846), a publican and victualler; and the grandson of Barnard Walford senior (c.
1 portrait in the collection
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
When a portrait communicates determination and individuality as boldly as these do, it has the potential to become an iconic image. For the Gallery’s 20th birthday this display brings together a group contemporary photographic portraits of inspiring women and men.
I like to think I'm an artist who uses photography as my medium, but I work commercially as a photographer and it's my full time occupation so I guess that defines me as a photographer or maybe a commercial artist?
In its second year at the National Portrait Gallery, and for the first time touring to other venues, the National Photographic Portrait Prize 2009 continues to present surprising perspectives on the nature of contemporary portrait photography.
When a portrait communicates determination and individuality as boldly as these do, it has the potential to become an iconic image. For the Gallery’s 20th birthday this display brings together a group contemporary photographic portraits of inspiring women and men.
Joanna Gilmour explores the stories behind the ninteenth-century carte de visites of bushrangers Frank Gardiner and Fred Lowry.
Images for media use will be available from 8 March 2018.
Australia has become recognised for the range and talent of its musicians, composers, conductors and celebrities in general associated with the music industry
Joanna Gilmour examines the prolific output of Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, and discovers the risk of taking a portrait at face value.
At the time of Herra Pahlasari’s birth in 1978, her academic parents were living in Canberra.
Anne Sanders and Christopher Chapman bring passionate characterisation to Express Yourself, the Portrait Gallery collection exhibition celebrating iconoclastic Australians.
Traversing paint and pixels, Inga Walton examines portraits of select women in Tudors to Windsors: British Royal Portraits.
Andrew Sayers discusses the real cost of George Lambert's Self portrait with gladioli 1922.
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.
Jane Raffan asks do clothes make the portrait, and can the same work with a new title fetch a better price?
Gareth Knapman explores the politics and opportunism behind the portraits of Tasmania’s Black War.
Robyn Sweaney's quiet Violet obsession.
Joanna Gilmour explores the fact and fictions surrounding the legendary life of Irish-born dancer Lola Montez.
Frank Hurley's celebrated images document the heroism and minutiae of Australian exploration in Antarctica.
Krysia Kitch reviews black chronicles at the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Sarah Engledow picks some favourites from a decade of the National Photographic Portrait Prize.
Joanna Gilmour discovers that the beards of the ill-fated explorers Burke and Wills were as epic as their expedition to traverse Australia from south to north.
Sarah Engledow bristles at the biographers’ neglect of Kitchener’s antipodean intervention.
Dr Sarah Engledow, National Photographic Portrait Prize judge and curator, introduces the 2017 Prize.
Dr Sarah Engledow, National Photographic Portrait Prize judge and curator, introduces the 2014 Prize.
Dr Anne Sanders NPG Curatorial Researcher investigated the lives of the pioneering psychologists whose portraits are featured in Inner Worlds.
