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Andrew Sayers discusses the real cost of George Lambert's Self portrait with gladioli 1922.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by Graham Smith 2009
Diana O’Neil on Noel Counihan’s vivid 1971 portrait of Alan Marshall.
Sandra Bruce explores a new acquisition that has within it a story of interconnectivities in the Australian art world.
A newly acquired work by Stella Bowen adds to the National Portrait Gallery's growing collection of important Australian self-portraits.
Long after the portraitist became indifferent to her, and died, a beguiling portrait hung over its subject.
Artist David M Thomas lists some of the ideas and influences behind his video portraits.
A National Portrait Gallery, London exhibition redefines portraiture, shifting the focus towards a new perspective on Pop Art.
Alison Baily Rehfisch (1900–1975) was born Alison Green in Woollahra, New South Wales, to parents who 'were very interested in painting – in all the arts: music, literature, everything'.
2 portraits in the collection
The Chairman, Board, Director and all the Staff of the National Portrait Gallery mourn the loss of our Founding Patron, who died peacefully in Melbourne this morning. He was 94.
Celebrates the centenary of the first national art collection, the Historic Memorials Collection, housed at Australia's Parliament House.
Joanna Gilmour explores the extraordinary life of Australian female aviator Nancy Bird Walton AO OBE
Drawn from the Gallery's collection, the exhibition Face the Music explores the remarkable talents and achievements of Australian musicians, composers, conductors and celebrities associated with the music industry.
National Portrait Gallery director Karen Quinlan AM nominates her quintet of favourites from the collection, with early twentieth-century ‘selfies’ filling the roster.
Magda Keaney talks with Montalbetti+Campbell about their photographic portrait of Australian astronaut Andy Thomas.
Dr Christopher Chapman, National Photographic Portrait Prize judge and curator, introduces the 2009 Prize.