Joanna Gilmour describes how colonial portraitists found the perfect market among social status seeking Sydneysiders.
Joanna Gilmour discovers that the beards of the ill-fated explorers Burke and Wills were as epic as their expedition to traverse Australia from south to north.
Christopher Chapman absorbs the gentle touch of Don Bachardy’s portraiture.
Athol Shmith’s photographs contributed to the emergence of a new vision of Australian womanhood.
Stephen Valambras Graham traverses the intriguing socio-political terrain behind two iconic First Nations portraits of the 1850s.
The complex connections between four creative Australians; Patrick White, Sidney Nolan, Robert Helpmann and Peter Sculthorpe.
Aircraft designer, pilot and entrepreneur, Sir Lawrence Wackett rejoins friends and colleagues on the walls of the National Portrait Gallery.
Vanity Fair Editor David Friend describes how the rebirth of the magazine sated our desire for access into the lives of celebrities and set the standard for the new era of portrait photography.
A toast to the acquisition of an unconventional new portrait of former Prime Minister, Stanley Melbourne Bruce.
Long after the portraitist became indifferent to her, and died, a beguiling portrait hung over its subject.
Judith Pugh reflects on Clifton Pugh's approach to portrait making.
Dr. Sarah Engledow discovers the amazing life of Ms. Hilda Spong, little remembered star of the stage, who was captured in a portrait by Tom Roberts.
Sarah Engledow casts a judicious eye over portraits in the Victorian Bar’s Peter O’Callaghan QC Portrait Gallery.
The Rajah Quilt’s narrative promptings are as intriguing as the textile is intricate.
One half of the team that was Eltham Films left scarcely a trace in the written historical record, but survives in a vivid portrait.
