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Queering the family portrait: Jacopo Amigoni’s portrait of Farinelli and friends
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…
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A hard day’s night: conserving David McDiarmid’s collaged works on paper
David McDiarmid was an Australian artist and activist whose work across many media records his experiences as a queer man in the late twentieth century.
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Southwold, Suffolk
A largely self-taught artist, whose work received more praise in France than in his own country during his lifetime, Edwards was a pioneer of plein-air painting in Britain.
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Fragile identities: eighteenth-century British portraits in porcelain
The European mastery of a true hard-paste porcelain technology in Dresden in 1708 was a major scientific, technical and cultural achievement.
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The Clavey family by Arthur Devis
The Clavey family by Arthur Devis is the fourth example of the conversation piece to be acquired by the National Gallery of Victoria, the others being the large conversations by…
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The Synnot children by Joseph Wright of Derby
Among various anecdotes narrated by Pliny the Elder that reveal the illusionistic skills of the Greek painters, the one recounting how Zeuxis was deluded by the drapery painted by his rival Parrhasios…
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Robert Buss, The monopolist and Charles Dickens
In April 1877 Archibald Michie, during his term as agent-general in London for Victoria (1873–79), acquired at auction for the National Gallery of Victoria, for the moderate sum of 18…