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Claude Charlick, 1961

Gift of Gladys Lock née Charlick 2012

Minnie Walton (photograph of Miss Rose Massey on verso), 1876

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by Graham Smith 2009

Gladys Moncrieff, 1920s

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Sally Douglas 2009

Gladys Moncrieff album,

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2008

Gladys Cotta, 1984

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Joseph Mathew Cotta and Gladys Maria Cotta 2016

Gladys Marks, c. 1962

Gift of Danina Dupain Anderson 2021. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

Gladys Moncrieff, 1963

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2008

Group photograph with Gladys Moncrieff,

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2008

Joseph Cotta, 1984

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Joseph Mathew Cotta and Gladys Maria Cotta 2016

Gil Askey, 2011

American dream leads to tragic end

Young love lost, treasured

Richard Windeyer, c. 1828

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

2012-13 Acquisition Fund

The Circle of Friends Acquisition Fund for 2012 was dedicated to purchasing a portrait of David Malouf by Rick Amor.

Self Creation

Former National Portrait Gallery Director, Andrew Sayers recalls meeting iconic Australian artist Sidney Nolan.

First Ladies

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

Diseased curiosity

Just after 10.00 o'clock on 3 December 1879, four prisoners were brought from their cells at Darlinghurst Gaol and placed in the dock of a courtroom heaving with agitated spectators

2021 Annual Appeal

In 2021 the Annual Appeal was focussed on Peter Brew-Bevan's portraits of athletes Turia Pitt, Leisel Jones OAM and Ellie Cole OAM.

The animating signature

Joanna Gilmore delights in the affecting drawings of Mathew Lynn.

So Fine

This exhibition features new works from ten women artists reinterpreting and reimagining elements of Australian history, enriching the contemporary narrative around Australia’s history and biography, reflecting the tradition of storytelling in our country.

Portrait Donors

The mystery of Enoch Arden

Tennyson's Enoch Arden was inspired by a story that Thomas Woolner passed on to him – but whose story and of whom?

Memories

The second row of paintings recall stories relating to specific sites, experiences and activities.

Annual Appeal

Shiny, happy people

Glynis Jones on the Powerhouse’s retrospective of one of Australia’s foremost fashion reportage and social photographers.

Activating the space

Sandra Phillips on portraits of Indigenous activism from Cairns Art Gallery’s 2019 Queen’s Land Blak Portraiture exhibition.

The personal and the historical

Where do we draw a line between the personal and the historical? Although she died in Melbourne in 1975, when I was not quite eleven years old, I have the vividest memories of my maternal grandmother Helen Borthwick.

Private virtues public lives

Family affections are preserved in a fine selection of intimate portraits.

Reflections on portraiture

An extract from the 2004 Nuala O'Flaaherty Memorial Lecture at the Queen Victoria Musuem and Art Gallery in Launceston in which Andrew Sayers reflects on the unique qualities of a portrait gallery.

Risky business

John Zubrzycki lauds the characters of the Australian escapology trade.