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Rachel Ward and Bryan Brown, 2006 (printed 2020)

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2020

Taking the waters, 2018

Before dark (Metamorphosis)

Max

Rachel Roxburgh, 1939

Purchased 2018

Rachel Griffiths, 2002 (printed 2004)

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2005

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, 2021

Purchased 2022

Dan (Sir Daniel Cooper), 1890s

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

Sydney (Sir Daniel Cooper), 1882

Gift of Mr Ronald Walker 2001

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

Purchased 2014

The Demon bowler (Frederick Robert Spofforth), 1878

Purchased 2002

Australia (The Hon. Alfred Deakin), 1908

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

a Postmaster General (Sir James Fergusson), 1892

Purchased 2014

Aldershot Cavalry (Major General Reginald Talbot), 1897

Purchased 2013

Ducker (Douglas Hamilton McLean), 1897

Purchased 2015

a squatter (Sir Samuel Wilson), 1885

Gift of Mr Ronald Walker 2001

The Demon bowler (Frederick Robert Spofforth), 1878

Purchased 2015

The Saints, 1978 (printed 2018)

Purchased with funds provided by Wayne Williams 2018

Australia (Sir Edmund Barton), 1902

Gift of Mr Ronald Walker 2001

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

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

Chelsea Hospital (Sir Henry Wylie Norman), 1903

Purchased 2015

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

Purchased 2015

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

Gift of Ronald Walker 2002

Westralia (Mr Albert Frederick Calvert), 1895

Gift of Ronald Walker 2002

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

Purchased 2015

The Australian Commonwealth (Henry Stafford Northcote), 1904

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

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

Gift of Ronald Walker 2002

Fairie (A W Cox), 1910

Purchased 2015

New South Wales (Earl Beauchamp), 1899

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

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

Purchased 2015

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

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

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

Purchased 2015

Frank Wootton, c. 1908

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

Western Australia (Sir Frederick Bedford), 1903

Purchased 2015

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

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

Gift of Mr Ronald Walker 2001

a Traveller (2nd Baron Lamington), 1892

Purchased 2015

Californian clinch in the ‘Australian’ outback

Long-term love scene

Bryan Brown, 2008

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2013

Norman and "Peter Ward", c. 1906

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2008

Yarnangu

Colleen McCullough, 1992-1993 (printed 2005)

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2005

Acacius (Stigmata) - Tony Carden, 1991

Gift of Lesley Saddington 2015

Wandangula Dancers & the Song People Perform Ngabaya (Spirit People) at the 2014 Malandarri Festival, Yanyuwa Country 2014

Release, 2010

Peter O'Shaughnessy, 1947

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 1999

Robert (No. 1 of Robert, Lindy, Grant)

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.

Self portrait, 1900

Gift of Rosemary Neilson 2021

George Lambert

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

Charles Perkins with Eileen Perkins, 1964 (printed 2021)

Purchased with funds provided by Tim Bednall 2021

Lieutenant Colonel Kathleen A. L. Best, 1943-1944

Purchased 2019

Ruby Hunter, 1996 (printed 2012)

Purchased 2012

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.

Waterloo and Mrs. Moore

Beyond the centenary of the ANZAC landings at Gallipoli, a number of other notable anniversaries converge this year. Waterloo deserves a little focussed consideration, for in the decades following 1815 numerous Waterloo and Peninsular War veterans came to Australia.

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.

Australians in Hollywood

Although perceived to be a recent phenomenon, the 'Aussie invasion' of Hollywood can actually be traced as far back as the early 1900s

Finalists announced for National Photographic Portrait Prize

The National Portrait Gallery would like to congratulate the forty finalists for the National Photographic Portrait Prize 2019.

Beyond the bow tie

Nathan Faiman delves into the rich life story and legacy of Alan Goldberg.

Animated

Animated is the National Portrait Gallery's first online exhibition.

2020 Annual Appeal

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

The Secret Life of Deb

Australian actress Deborah Mailman is the subject of a unique portrait by Evert Ploeg.

Announcing... Portrait23: Identity

In this major new exhibition marking the National Portrait Gallery’s third decade, 23 Australian artists and collectives have been invited to create portraits without constraints or boundaries.

Agnes enigma

Karen Quinlan considers the case of Agnes Goodsir, whose low profile in Australia belies her overseas acclaim.

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.

Give me five

National Portrait Gallery director Karen Quinlan AM nominates her quintet of favourites from the collection, with early twentieth-century ‘selfies’ filling the roster.

The jungle look

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

Annual Appeal

Moving still

Anne O’Hehir on the seductive power of the film still to reflect and shape ourselves and our cultural landscape.

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.

Petal to the mettle

Sarah Engledow lauds the very civil service of Dame Helen Blaxland.

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.

Illuminating history

Joanna Gilmour reflects on 25 years of collecting at the National Portrait Gallery.

A potpourri of portraits

Archie 100 curator (and detective) Natalie Wilson’s nationwide search for Archibald portraits unearthed the fascinating stories behind some long-lost treasures.

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.