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The exhibition Portraits for Posterity celebrates gifts to the Gallery, of purchases made with donated funds, and testifies to the generosity and community spirit of Australians.
Sharon Peoples contemplates costumes and the construction of identity.
Sarah Engledow explores the history of the prime ministers and artists featured in the exhibition.
Penelope Grist charts an immersive path through Stuart Spence’s photography.
Karl James gives short shrift to doubts about the profile of General Sir John Monash.
Dr. Sarah Engledow tells the story of Australia's first Federal statistician, Sir George Knibbs.
It’s a matter beyond dispute that in the entire history of Australian art, it’s Noel McKenna who’s painted the liveliest rendition of the head of a Chihuahua.
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.
Traversing paint and pixels, Inga Walton examines portraits of select women in Tudors to Windsors: British Royal Portraits.
Sarah Engledow ponders the divergent legacies of Messrs Kendall and Lawson.
Dr Sarah Engledow puts four gifts to the National Portrait Gallery’s Collection in context.
Sarah Engledow looks at three decades of Nicholas Harding's portraiture.