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Michael Desmond looks at the history of the Vanity Fair magazine in conjunction with the exhibition Vanity Fair Portraits: Photographs 1913-2008
Walter Lindrum, world-famous billiards player, was one of Australia's greatest sporting champions.
Natural light and human proportions – the design by Johnson Pilton Walker
In 2023 the Annual Appeal was focussed on a work by one of Australia's best loved and most successful portrait painters, Judy Cassab AO CBE, depicting model, entrepreneur and deportment icon, June Dally-Watkins OAM.
Inga Walton delves into the bohemian group of artists and writers who used each other as muses and transformed British culture.
Phil Manning celebrates a century of Brisbane photographic portraiture.
It has been suggested that Sir Thomas Brisbane’s interest in the New South Wales governorship was as attributable to his passion for astronomy as to the desirability of the position as a prestigious career move.
The life and achievements of Sir Edward Holden, who is represented in the portrait collection by a bust created by Leslie Bowles.
How the National Portrait Gallery and its unique collection came to be
The Chairman, Board, Director and staff mourn the loss of the National Portrait Gallery's inaugural director.
Exhibition curator Christine Clark introduces the work by Indonesian artist Agus Suwage created for Beyond the self: Contemporary portraiture from Asia.
A moving portrait of Cate Blanchett unfolds as an inspired pairing of medium and subject.