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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.
It was definitely a candid encounter as was the expression on the face. It was constructed insofar as the image was deliberately taken from a distance so as to minimize intrusion and to magnify the effect of the image.
Close encounters are the genesis for Graeme Drendel’s enticing portraiture.
Edward Hammond Hargraves (1816–1891), adventurer and speculator, claimed credit for the discovery of payable goldfields in New South Wales.
1 portrait in the collection
Sarah Engledow explores the history of the prime ministers and artists featured in the exhibition.
How seven portraits within Bare reveal in a public portrait parts of the body and elements of life usually located in the private sphere.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by Graham Smith 2009
Chandler Phillip Coventry AM (1924–1999), grazier, gallerist, art collector and arts patron, was born in Armidale, New South Wales to an established New England grazing family.
1 portrait in the collection
The National Portrait Gallery would like to congratulate the forty finalists for the National Photographic Portrait Prize 2019.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Malcolm Robertson in memory of William Thomas Robertson 2018. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Andrew Sayers discusses the portrait of Dr Joan Croll AO by the Australian artist John Brack.
Joanna Gilmour explores the life of a colonial portrait artist, writer and rogue Thomas Griffiths Wainewright.
David Hansen’s tribute to his close friend, prince of words and former National Portrait Gallery director, the late Angus Trumble.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of James Semple Kerr 2004
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