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Jane Raffan asks do clothes make the portrait, and can the same work with a new title fetch a better price?
Take a peek at a selection of the portraits you can see in the exhibition.
The complex connections between four creative Australians; Patrick White, Sidney Nolan, Robert Helpmann and Peter Sculthorpe.
The second row of paintings recall stories relating to specific sites, experiences and activities.
Joanna Gilmour reflects on 25 years of collecting at the National Portrait Gallery.
Sharon Peoples contemplates costumes and the construction of identity.
Dr Christopher Chapman, National Photographic Portrait Prize judge and curator, introduces the 2009 Prize.
Sarah Engledow on Messrs Dobell and MacMahon and the art of friendship.
An interview with the photographer.
The National Portrait Gallery today announced finalists for the inaugural Darling Portrait Prize, a national new $75,000 prize for Australian portrait painting, and released selected images from the final prize pool for the popular National Photography Portrait Prize.
Patrick McCaughey explores a striking Boyd self portrait.
Joanna Gilmour on Tom Durkin playing with Melbourne's manhood.
Gareth Knapman explores the politics and opportunism behind the portraits of Tasmania’s Black War.
Bon Scott and Angus Young photographed by Rennie Ellis are part of a display celebrating summer and images of the shirtless male.
Joanna Gilmour delves into a collection display that celebrates the immediacy and potency of drawing as an art form in its own right.
In 2022 the Annual Appeal was focussed on Mayatjara by Robert Fielding, a series of 24 photographs of Elders of the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara community.