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One half of the team that was Eltham Films left scarcely a trace in the written historical record, but survives in a vivid portrait.
The death of a gentlewoman is shrouded in mystery, a well-liked governor finds love after sorrow, and two upright men become entangled in the historical record.
Basil grew into a speckled beauty – a long-legged leaper and an exceptionally vocal dog, with a great register of sounds, ascending in shock value from a whimper to a growl to a bark to a yelp that’s a violation of the ears.
Joanna Gilmour describes how colonial portraitists found the perfect market among social status seeking Sydneysiders.
The first index I created was for my first book, and, to my astonishment, that was almost twenty-five years ago.
As a convict Thomas Bock was required to sketch executed murders for science; as a free man, fashionable society portraits.
Penelope Grist’s spirits soar with Lisa Tomasetti’s Dancers in the Streets series.
Archie 100 curator (and detective) Natalie Wilson’s nationwide search for Archibald portraits unearthed the fascinating stories behind some long-lost treasures.
Martin Sharp fulfils the Pop art idiom of merging art and life.
A National Portrait Gallery, London exhibition redefines portraiture, shifting the focus towards a new perspective on Pop Art.
Inga Walton delves into the bohemian group of artists and writers who used each other as muses and transformed British culture.
Last month we marked the twentieth anniversary of the formal establishment of the National Portrait Gallery, the tenth of the opening of our signature building, and the fifth of our having become a statutory authority under Commonwealth legislation.
The complex connections between four creative Australians; Patrick White, Sidney Nolan, Robert Helpmann and Peter Sculthorpe.
Gumbaynggirr artist Aretha Brown talks street art, collaboration and ghost stories with First Nations Curator and Meriam woman, Rebecca Ray.
Michael Desmond examines the career of the eighteenth-century suspected poisoner and portrait artist Thomas Griffiths Wainewright.
Corinna Cullen on the symbolic power of pandemic-related imagery over the ages.