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Krysia Kitch reviews black chronicles at the National Portrait Gallery, London.
The London-born son of an American painter, Augustus Earle ended up in Australia by accident in January 1825.
Christopher Chapman immerses himself in Larry Clark’s field of vision.
Alexandra Roginski gets a feel for phrenology’s fundamentals.
Grace Carroll on the gendered world of the Wentworths.
John Singer Sargent: a painter at the vanguard of contemporary movements in music, literature and theatre.
Sarah Engledow ponders the divergent legacies of Messrs Kendall and Lawson.
The death of a gentlewoman is shrouded in mystery, a well-liked governor finds love after sorrow, and two upright men become entangled in the historical record.
Despite once expressing a limited interest in the self portrait, the idea of it has figured strongly in much of Tracey Moffatt's work and has done so in some of her most distinctive and compelling images.
Carrie Kibbler looks at how portraiture fits into the Australian Artbank Collection.
Joanna Gilmour explores the life of a colonial portrait artist, writer and rogue Thomas Griffiths Wainewright.
Dr Sarah Engledow puts four gifts to the National Portrait Gallery’s Collection in context.
This issue of Portrait Magazine feature Lucian Frued, John Witzig, colonial death portraits, William Kinghorne, Henry Crock, and more.
Joanna Gilmour discovers that the beards of the ill-fated explorers Burke and Wills were as epic as their expedition to traverse Australia from south to north.
Alison Weir explores the National Portrait Gallery, London and the BP Portrait Award to find what makes a good painted portrait - past and present.
Celebrates the centenary of the first national art collection, the Historic Memorials Collection, housed at Australia's Parliament House.