Tenille Hands explores a portrait prize gifted to the National Screen and Sound Archive.
Sharon Peoples contemplates costumes and the construction of identity.
Dr Sarah Engledow, National Photographic Portrait Prize judge and curator, introduces the 2014 Prize.
Dr. Sarah Engledow discusses a collection of drawings and prints by the Victorian artist Rick Amor acquired in 2005.
Tom Fryer surveys the twentieth-century architectural project, and finds representation and the portrait were integral elements.
Dr Sarah Engledow discusses the recent gift of works by David Campbell.
Aimee Board traces Judy Cassab’s path to the Australian outback, arriving at the junction of inspiration and abstraction.
Alexandra Roginski gets a feel for phrenology’s fundamentals.
To accompany the exhibition Cecil Beaton: Portraits, held at the NPG in 2005, this article is drawn from Hugo Vickers's authorised biography, Cecil Beaton (1985).
Traudi Allen discovers sensitivity, humour and fine draughtsmanship in the portraiture of John Perceval.
Anna Culliton never had a colouring-in book when she was little. Her parents –Tony, a filmmaker, and Stephanie, a painter – wouldn’t let her have one. Instead, they insisted on her drawing her own pictures to colour-in.
Sarah Engledow lauds the very civil service of Dame Helen Blaxland.
Judith Pugh reflects on Clifton Pugh's approach to portrait making.
How seven portraits within Bare reveal in a public portrait parts of the body and elements of life usually located in the private sphere.
John Singer Sargent: a painter at the vanguard of contemporary movements in music, literature and theatre.
Dr Sarah Engledow puts four gifts to the National Portrait Gallery’s Collection in context.
