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Old Blighty

Angus Trumble ponders the many faces of William Bligh.

Australian visit in Denmark

In April 2006 the National Portrait Gallery showcased Australian portraits at the Fredenksborg Castle in Denmark. 

Take thy face hence

Joanna Gilmour travels through time to explore the National Portrait Gallery London’s masterpieces in Shakespeare to Winehouse.

Listomania

Sarah Engledow describes the fall-out once Brett Whiteley stuck Patrick White’s list of his loves and hates onto his great portrait of the writer.

Part of the crew of His Majesty's Ship Guardian endeavouring to escape in the boats, 1790

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2011

Virtual lives

A brief introduction to the Weird, Wired World of Internet Portraiture.

Small worlds

Bess Norriss Tait created miniature watercolour portraits full of character and life.

Hide/Seek

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

Figurative foundation

Joanna Gilmour explores the life and art of the Australian artist Janet Dawson.

To the end of the earth

The portrait of Dr. Johann Reinhold Forster and his son George Forster from 1780, is one of the oldest in the NPG's collection.

Every flap, fold and bulge

Wunderkind lost

Inga Walton on the brief but brilliant life of Hugh Ramsay.

First encounters

Representations of the inhabitants of the new world expose the complexities of the colonisers' intentions.

Reflections on portraiture

An extract from the 2004 Nuala O'Flaaherty Memorial Lecture at the Queen Victoria Musuem and Art Gallery in Launceston in which Andrew Sayers reflects on the unique qualities of a portrait gallery.

Queen Victoria, 1901

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2018

Back in black

Krysia Kitch reviews black chronicles at the National Portrait Gallery, London.