Sir Jacob Epstein’s reputation as a sculptor rests chiefly on his prolific output of exuberant and expressive portraits and, to an extent, has been consolidated by the frequent controversy attending the realisation…

The history of painting since Manet (assuming that Manet’s Olympia is, as Malraux declared, the beginning of modern art) appears as a series of technical revolutions, competitively iconoclastic, tending to extremism, each…

Among the rich collection of Indian paintings acquired by the National Gallery of Victoria through the Felton Bequest in 1980 are two large pictures depicting Maharana Jagat Singh II of Mewar…

Modern scholarship has increasingly focussed attention on the interrelationship of the arts, on the ways in which, for example, the visual arts may complement or inform literary discours

This issue of the Art Bulletin of Victoria is published in honour of Dr Ursula Hoff, who has over the years made such a considerable contribution to art scholarship and to…

Dr Mary Woodall, CBE, Felton Adviser from 1964 to 1974, died on 31 March 1988 at the age of eighty-seven

The latter half of the 1970s was a particularly busy period for Fred Williams: with his wife Lyn he made a number of trips to Europe and the United States; his exhibition…

The generous provision of funds by the Felton Bequest recently enabled the National Gallery of Victoria successfully to bid at auction1Lot 21, Sotheby’s, Melbourne, 17 April 19

The coloured copy of William Blake’s set of engravings for Edward Young’s Night Thoughts (1797), recently acquired by the National Gallery of Victoria, is one of the most interesting so far described&#

The Birds in a winter landscape (fig. 1), acquired by the Felton Bequest in 1990, is among the major works of Lu Ji (c. 1440–

 Essential reasons for the extraordinary development of Dutch painting during the 17th century, according to Johan Huizinga, were ‘the intense enjoyment of shapes and objects, the unshakeable faith in the reality and…

A work which has remained in storage at the National Gallery of Victoria for many years is the small panel called Les jaloux  (The jealous ones) 496/2 (fi

The mid-nineteenth-century English artists known as the Pre-Raphaelites are represented in the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria by a group of important paintings and works on paper.

The National Gallery of Victoria has in its collection two paintings by the Dutch master Rembrandt Harmensz.

In 1891 and 1892 the National Gallery of Victoria, then an institution barely thirty years old, purchased a group of sixty-four original old master and nineteenth-century engravings and etching