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The life and achievements of Sir Edward Holden, who is represented in the portrait collection by a bust created by Leslie Bowles.
Christopher Chapman immerses himself in Larry Clark’s field of vision.
Celebrates the centenary of the first national art collection, the Historic Memorials Collection, housed at Australia's Parliament House.
In 2006 the National Portrait Gallery acquired a splendid portrait of Victoria's first governor, Lieutenant Governor Charles Joseph La Trobe by Thomas Woolner.
More than eighty treasures from the National Portrait Gallery London will travel to Canberra for a once-in-a-lifetime exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery from March 2022.
Mark Haworth-Booth explains why Bill Brandt is one of the most important British photographers of the Twentieth Century.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2018
In recent years I have become fascinated by the so-called Sydney Cove Medallion (1789), a work of art that bridges the 10,000-mile gap between the newly established penal settlement at Port Jackson and the beating heart of Enlightenment England.
The exhibition Portraits for Posterity celebrates gifts to the Gallery, of purchases made with donated funds, and testifies to the generosity and community spirit of Australians.
The portrait of Janet and Horace Keats with the spirit of the poet Christopher Brennan is brought to life by artist Dora Toovey.
The art of Australia’s colonial women painters affords us an invaluable, alternative perspective on the nascent nation-building project.
John Singer Sargent: a painter at the vanguard of contemporary movements in music, literature and theatre.
Celebrating a new painted portrait of Joseph Banks, Sarah Engledow spins a yarn of the naturalist, the first kangaroo in France and Don, a Spanish ram.
In their own words lead researcher Louise Maher on the novel project that lets the Gallery’s portraits speak for themselves.
Alexandra Roginski reveals a forceful feminist figure in the colonial period’s slippery science, phrenology.