Born in Barcelona in 1890, the Catalan artist Manuel Humbert was twenty-six when he posed for this arresting portrait, painted in Paris by the immensely gifted, but self-afflicted Amedeo Modigliani….

This elegant painting celebrates the close bond formed between a group of celebrated and creative Italian friends in the mid eighteenth century.

When Charles Burney, the English music historian, visited the famous singer Carlo Broschi, called Farinelli, at his villa in Bologna in 1770, he observed: ‘He seems very much to regret…

Among South African artist and ‘visual activist’ Zanele Muholi’s self-portraits, the series titled Ntozakhe (Parktown) contains two main interwoven narratives, both of which have their foundations in South Africa’s racial…

Mary Beale, a portrait painter who ran a successful art practice with her husband, Charles, in London during the Restoration era, had two sons, Bartholomew (born 1656) and Charles (born…

In this engaging portrait by Mary Beale an elegant young woman with long flowing hair stares seductively out at the viewer, one curled tress of hair adorning her left shoulder….

This is a fine example of William Rothenstein’s painting practice at a time when his art was achieving wide recognition in the English art worl

As a student at London’s Royal College of Art for three years from 1951 to 1954, John Bratby had access to remarkable teachers such as Carel Weight, Rodrigo Moynihan, Ruskin…

This exquisite painting is a portrait of Robin John, the third son of Augustus John’s first wife, Ida Nettleship, at the age of fifteen or sixtee

Universally acknowledged as one of the greatest exponents of the art of portraiture, Anthony van Dyck’s portrait of Rachel de Ruvigny, the Countess of Southampton (1603-1640) is a superlative example…

Mary Beale’s three-quarter-length Self-portrait with husband and son

The European mastery of a true hard-paste porcelain technology in Dresden in 1708 was a major scientific, technical and cultural achievement.

In 2015 the National Gallery of Victoria was fortunate to acquire from a private donor a painting by the distinguished British artist George Frederic Watts (1817–1904

In the year 1911, at the age of 53, the famous Australian stage actress and pantomime artist Nellie Stewart sat for her portrait in the Melbourne studio of a young…

In 1877 an engaging portrait drawing of a child by William Dyce (fig. 1) was given to the National Gallery of Victoria by a little-known collector, Duncan Elphinstone Cooper.