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Hottie's Snifter to port

Peter Jeffrey trips the hound nostalgic.

A guy from Paris

Sarah Engledow on a foundational gallery figure who was quick on the draw.

City boys

Christopher Chapman immerses himself in Larry Clark’s field of vision.

History

How the National Portrait Gallery and its unique collection came to be

Through thick and thin

Sarah Engledow likes the manifold mediums of Nicholas Harding’s portraiture.

In the round

Andrew Sayers outlines the highlights of the National Portrait Gallery's display of portrait sculpture.

The Dissecting Room

Joanna Gilmour accounts for Australia’s deliciously ghoulish nineteenth century criminal portraiture. 

Hide/Seek

David Ward writes about the exhibition Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture on display at the National Portrait Gallery, Washington.

Be frank

Close encounters are the genesis for Graeme Drendel’s enticing portraiture.

Sure thing

Blue Mountain, Owner, Trainer, Jockey, James Scobie 1887 by Frederick Woodhouse Snr. is a portrait of James Scobie, well known jockey and eminent horse trainer.

Showing character

Joanna Gilmour on Tom Durkin playing with Melbourne's manhood.

Prima facie

Sarah Engledow casts a judicious eye over portraits in the Victorian Bar’s Peter O’Callaghan QC Portrait Gallery.

Annual Appeal

Sir Thomas Gore-Browne, 1864

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2018

200 Years of Portraiture

To celebrate his family bicentenary, Malcolm Robertson looks at the portraiture legacy left by his ancestors.

Mugshots

A toast to the acquisition of an unconventional new portrait of former Prime Minister, Stanley Melbourne Bruce.