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The mane thing is trust
The Darling Prize is a new annual prize for Australian portrait painters, painting Australian sitters. The winner receives a cash prize of $75,000.
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.
Angus Trumble salutes the glorious portraiture of Sir Thomas Lawrence.
Purchased 2018
The tragic tale of Tom Wills, the ‘inventor’ of Australian Rules Football.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Vicky Tycho 2013
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by Wayne Williams 2012
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by James Bain AM and Janette Bain 2010
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by James Bain AM and Janette Bain 2010
Purchased 2004
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2003
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2003
For Tom Roberts - Australia's best nineteenth-century portrait painter - neither a proto-national portrait gallery nor more popular collections of portrait heads, were sufficient public celebrations for the notables of Australian history
Purchased 1999
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Dr Robert Edwards AO 1999
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program