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Bess Norriss Tait created miniature watercolour portraits full of character and life.
Barry York charts the course from childhood request to autographed celebrity portrait anthology.
Dr Sarah Engledow writes about the gift of two striking paintings by the Australian artist Ken Done AM.
Inga Walton on the brief but brilliant life of Hugh Ramsay.
Fiona Gruber investigates the work of Australian painter Kristin Headlam.
Christopher Chapman takes a trip through the doors of perception, arriving at the junction of surrealism and psychoanalysis.
Diana O’Neil samples the tartan treats on offer in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery.
Joanna Gilmour dives into the life of Australian swimming legend Annette Kellerman.
Tom Fryer surveys the twentieth-century architectural project, and finds representation and the portrait were integral elements.
Aircraft designer, pilot and entrepreneur, Sir Lawrence Wackett rejoins friends and colleagues on the walls of the National Portrait Gallery.
Sarah Engledow writes about Gordon and Marilyn Darling and their support for the National Portrait Gallery throughout its evolution.
The art of Australia’s colonial women painters affords us an invaluable, alternative perspective on the nascent nation-building project.
John Singer Sargent: a painter at the vanguard of contemporary movements in music, literature and theatre.
Angus Trumble reflects on the force of nature that was Helena Rubinstein.
Curator, Penny Grist, reveals how this exhibition came to be