Purchased 2004
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
Burnum Burnum (1936–1997), Woiworung/Yorta Yorta activist, actor and author, was born at Wallaga Lake and taken from his family at three months old after his mother died.
2 portraits in the collection
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
Noel Fraser Hickey (1921–2010) was born in Kensington, in Sydney, New South Wales, a stone's throw from the Royal Randwick Racecourse.
1 portrait in the collection
Angus Trumble salutes the glorious portraiture of Sir Thomas Lawrence.
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.
The tragic tale of Tom Wills, the ‘inventor’ of Australian Rules Football.
