Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by the Ian Potter Foundation 2009
Elegance in exile is an exhibition surveying the work of Richard Read senior, Thomas Bock, Thomas Griffiths Wainewright and Charles Rodius: four artists who, though exiled to Australia as convicts, created many of the most significant and elegant portraits of the colonial period.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by L Gordon Darling AC CMG and Marilyn Darling AC 2013
English artist Benjamin Duterrau took up the cause of the Indigenous peoples of Tasmania with his detailed and sympathetic renderings.
Christopher Chapman highlights the inaugural hang of the new National Portrait Gallery building which opened in December 2008.
How the National Portrait Gallery and its unique collection came to be
