When Everard Studley Miller died aged sixty-nine on 5 July 1956, the major beneficiary of his £262 940 estate was the National Gallery of Victor

Alfred Felton has long been recognised as the benefactor who transformed the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria

The National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) holds 140 prints by Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn, a growing collection of the artist’s intaglio works that began over 130 years ag

Lacquer, a tree sap from the Chinese lacquer tree (Toxicodendron vernicifluum) species, is processed and pigmented with ground cinnabar, a red mercury sulphide pigment of which vermillion is the human-made…

Handmade by artist Sheila Hicks’s small studio in Paris, Nowhere to go, 2022, is nonetheless epic in scal

When speaking to Agnieskza Pilat about her robots, you’d be forgiven for thinking they are real dog

Agnieszka Pilat’s Heterobota, 2023, tests our threshold for machines to exist outside of servitude and develop their own creative pursuit

The attribution of Old Master paintings is fluid at times, as ongoing research brings to light new information. The National Gallery of Victoria’s enigmatic Profile portrait of a lady, c….

When recommending the purchase of this sombre yet arresting painting by the celebrated Venetian artist Titian (born Tiziano Vecellio), Frank Rinder, the London-based adviser to the Felton Bequest, wrote in…

Nestled within the permanent collection of French Impressionist paintings at NGV International, for the first time, the work of Japanese artists of the nineteenth century take centre stage to contextualise…

James Tissot’s enigmatic and visually lavish An interesting story, c. 1872, has been entertaining and delighting NGV patrons since it was acquired in 1938 with funds from the Felton Bequest…

In 1999, J. G. P. Delaney’s biography of Glyn Philpot used the ‘H’ word for the first time in writings on this prominent British portraitist, and religious and genre painter&#

Framers in Focus: A series of essays on 19th century Melbourne frame makers, produced by the NGV Centre for Frame Research.

150 year, Rorschach, 2019, is a seven-panel panoramic landscape painting by leading Australian artist Ben Quilty and generously gifted through the Felton Bequest.

The National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) is an important repository for Albrecht Dürer’s prints.1This extraordinary print collection is viewable via the NGV’s Collection On