Purchased 2009
During his long and distinguished career Max Dupain took thousands of photographs of people
Magazines are the portrait galleries of the 90s... Glossy is about magazines. The exhibition presents the work of eight photographers, Australian by birth or long-term residency, who are producing portraits for publication in magazines around the world.
Thomas Woolner, sculptor, studied first with the brothers Henry and William Behnes, painter and sculptor respectively, and later at the Royal Academy, at which he was to become professor of sculpture in his fifties.
5 portraits in the collection
The National Portrait Gallery would like to congratulate the forty finalists for the National Photographic Portrait Prize 2019.
Australia has become recognised for the range and talent of its musicians, composers, conductors and celebrities in general associated with the music industry
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.
Patrick Corrigan AM (b. 1932), businessman, art collector and arts patron, was born in Hanghow (Hankou) in China.
3 portraits in the collection
Gift of Eleanor Thornton 2013. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Commissioned in 2018 with funds raised through the 2020 project
Delve into the lives, loves and labour of the world’s most prominent portrait galleries in this international conversation series.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2013
Death masks, post-mortem drawings and other spooky and disquieting portraits... Come and see how portraits of infamous Australians were used in the 19th century.
A major new exhibition celebrating love in all its guises. Opening 20 March 2021.
This exhibition offers a comprehensive display of Clifton Pugh's portraits revealing his development and growth from tonal paintings to a unique style that was in demand from politicians, artists, academics and Australian personalities.
Images for media use will be available from 8 March 2018.
