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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.
English artist Benjamin Duterrau took up the cause of the Indigenous peoples of Tasmania with his detailed and sympathetic renderings.
In their own words lead researcher Louise Maher on the novel project that lets the Gallery’s portraits speak for themselves.
Emma Kindred examines fashion as a representation of self and social ritual in 19th-century portraiture.
Alexandra Roginski reveals a forceful feminist figure in the colonial period’s slippery science, phrenology.
Martin Sharp fulfils the Pop art idiom of merging art and life.
Pushpamala N. was born in 1956 in Bangalore. Her early training was in sculpture, but as her practice progressed she brought an early enthusiasm for narrative figuration into her photographic work.
National Gallery of Australia curator Jane Kinsman discusses the portraiture of Henri Matisse.
The story behind two colonial portraits; a lithograph of captain and convict John Knatchbull and newspaper illustration of Robert Lowe, Viscount Sherbrooke.
Michael Desmond examines the career of the eighteenth-century suspected poisoner and portrait artist Thomas Griffiths Wainewright.