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Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by Graham Smith 2009
Jean Appleton’s 1965 self portrait makes a fine addition to the National Portrait Gallery’s collection writes Joanna Gilmour.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by L Gordon Darling AC CMG 2003
Open Air is an exhibition of portraits of Australians in environments of particular significance to them.
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.
Purchased with funds provided by Graham Smith 2009
The National Portrait Gallery has unveiled twenty new portrait commissions of Australian leaders and individualists as part of its twentieth birthday celebrations in a new exhibition, 20/20: Celebrating twenty years with twenty new portrait commissions.
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.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by Graham Smith 2009
Nicholas Harding: 28 portraits features paintings of Robert Drewe, John Bell and Hugo Weaving alongside gorgeously coloured recent oil portraits, delicate gouaches and bold ink and charcoal drawings.
The National Portrait Gallery would like to congratulate the forty finalists for the National Photographic Portrait Prize 2019.
This sample of 56 photographs takes in some of the smallest photographs we own and some of the largest, some of the earliest and some of the most recent, as well as multiple photographic processes from daguerreotypes to digital media.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2004
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program
Sarah Engledow on Messrs Dobell and MacMahon and the art of friendship.
Purchased with funds provided by Graham Smith 2009
This article examines the portraits gifted to the National Portrait Gallery by Fairfax Holdings in 2003.