Baron Jacques Hamelin (1768-1839), French naval officer, began his sailing career at seventeen, making his first long voyage on a merchant marine ship to and from Angola.
1 portrait in the collection
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2011
Jacques Henri Emil van Meegeren was a Dutch illustrator and painter. He is the the son of the infamous art forger, Han van Meegeren [Henricus Antonius] (1899-1947) who produced several paintings in the 1930s and 1940s which he passed off as originals by Vermeer , Pieter de Hooch and others..
1 portrait in the collection
Jacques Miller AC (b. 1931), immunologist, spent his early childhood in Shanghai and Lausanne before coming to Sydney with his parents at the age of ten.
2 portraits in the collection
François Jacques Dequevauviller was the son of the French engraver Nicolas-Barthelemy François Dequevauviller (1745–1807).
1 portrait in the collection
Jacques Etienne Victor Arago (1790-1855), author, artist and explorer, travelled with Louis-Claude de Saulces de Freycinet on his 1817 voyage around the world on the Uranie.
3 portraits in the collection
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2012
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2013
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Tony Clune 1999
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2008
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2008
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2014
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2011
Purchased with funds provided by L Gordon Darling AC CMG 2009
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2015
Purchased 2014
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Gina and Ted Gregg 2010
Claude-Marie Dubufe, born in Paris, is said to have studied with Jacques-Louis David.
1 portrait in the collection
François Bonneville was one of the leading French engravers of the period of the Revolution, selling his works at the Imprimérie du Cercle Social on the Rue du Théâtre-Francais until 1797, and then, until 1814, at successive premises on the Rue Saint Jacques.
2 portraits in the collection
Michael Wardell’s personal insight into Jacques van der Merwe’s New Arrivals.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2014
Louis-Claude Desaulses de Freycinet (1779–1842), hydrographer and cartographer, sailed with Nicolas Baudin on the Expédition aux terres australes, a journey of discovery, commissioned by Napoléon, to the unknown southern coast of New Holland.
1 portrait in the collection
Amy Castles (1880–1951), soprano, was born in Melbourne and educated at schools in Bendigo, where her family lived from the early 1880s.
4 portraits in the collection
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Ted and Gina Gregg 2012
From 1967 until 1981 Matthew Perceval lived and painted in France and during those years produced a large body of portrait paintings.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by Jim and Barbara Higgins 2012
Purchased 1999
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by Jim and Barbara Higgins 2012
Hugh Kingsley Ward MC (1887-1972), bacteriologist, was educated at Sydney Grammar and the University of Sydney before being awarded the Rhodes Scholarship in 1911 and proceeding to Oxford.
1 portrait in the collection
Paul Gaimard (1796-1858), naturalist and naval surgeon, joined the French navy after distinguishing himself at the naval medical school at Toulon.
1 portrait in the collection
Nicholas-Martin Petit was born in Paris, the son of a fan maker, and learned graphic art in the studio of Jacques Louis David.
9 portraits in the collection
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by Ross A Field 2008
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by Wayne Williams 2015
Jessica Bolton navigates the parallel tracks documenting Robyn Davidson’s astonishing journey.
Born: 1959, Southport, QLD
Works: Canberra
This exhibition showcases portraits acquired through the generosity of the National Portrait Gallery’s Founding Patrons, L Gordon Darling AC CMG and Marilyn Darling AC.
Andrew Sayers feels the warmth in the paintings Matthew Perceval made while the sun shone in southern France.
The exhibition will include works of art from the NPG Canberra's permanent collection with some inward loans and aims to highlight the achievements of notable Australians.
Joanna Gilmour describes some of the stories of the individuals and incidents that define French exploration of Australia and the Pacific.
Ashleigh Wadman rediscovers the Australian characters represented with a kindly touch by the British portrait artist Leslie Ward for the society magazine Vanity Fair.
Michael Desmond charts the path of portraiture, arriving at Julian Opie’s digital realm.
Inga Walton on the brief but brilliant life of Hugh Ramsay.
Fiona Gruber investigates the work of Australian painter Kristin Headlam.
Basil grew into a speckled beauty – a long-legged leaper and an exceptionally vocal dog, with a great register of sounds, ascending in shock value from a whimper to a growl to a bark to a yelp that’s a violation of the ears.
Dempsey’s People curator David Hansen chronicles a research tale replete with serendipity, adventure and Tasmanian tigers.
Representations of the inhabitants of the new world expose the complexities of the colonisers' intentions.
Angus Trumble reflects on the force of nature that was Helena Rubinstein.
