Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by James Bain AM and Janette Bain 2010
Vincent Fantauzzo (b. 1977), award-winning portrait artist, was born in England and grew up in Melbourne’s northern suburbs.
1 portrait in the collection
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2004
Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney PC (1733-1800) was British Home Secretary in the Pitt Government, given responsibility for devising a plan to settle convicts at Botany Bay.
1 portrait in the collection
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
Angus Trumble salutes the glorious portraiture of Sir Thomas Lawrence.
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.
Over the last five years the National Portrait Gallery has developed a collection of portrait photographs that reflects both the strength and diversity of Australian achievement as well as the talents of our photographers.
Drawn from some of the many donations made to the Gallery's collection, the exhibition Portraits for Posterity pays homage both to the remarkable (and varied) group of Australians who are portrayed in the portraits and the generosity of the many donors who have presented them to the Gallery.
The tragic tale of Tom Wills, the ‘inventor’ of Australian Rules Football.
