Former NPG Director, Andrew Sayers celebrates the support given to the Gallery by Gordon and Marilyn Darling.
Arnold Shore, a lifelong inhabitant of Melbourne, was apprenticed to a stained glass and leadlight company called Brooks, Robinson soon after leaving school at the age of twelve.
2 portraits in the collection
This exhibition showcases portraits acquired through the generosity of the National Portrait Gallery’s Founding Patrons, L Gordon Darling AC CMG and Marilyn Darling AC.
George Brown (1835-1917), clergyman, established numerous Methodist missions in the Pacific from the late 1880s.
1 portrait in the collection
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Malcolm Robertson in memory of William Thomas Robertson 2018
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program
First Ladies profiles women who have achieved noteworthy firsts over the past 100 years.
Purchased 2018
Robin Sellick captured a rare moment of quietude from the late conservation star Steve Irwin.
James Holloway describes the first portraits you encounter when entering the Scottish National Portrait Gallery.
Inspiring Australians tell their own stories in a unique new gallery audio tour, developed in collaboration with the National Library of Australia.
Djon Mundine OAM brings poignant memory and context to Martin van der Wal’s 1986 portrait photographs of storied Aboriginal artists.
Joanna Gilmour looks beyond the ivory face of select portrait miniatures to reveal their sitters’ true grit.
Joanna Gilmour explores the life of a colonial portrait artist, writer and rogue Thomas Griffiths Wainewright.
Joanna Gilmore delights in the affecting drawings of Mathew Lynn.
Joanna Gilmour describes how colonial portraitists found the perfect market among social status seeking Sydneysiders.
