Portraiture is, and always has been, an important component of the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV).
For many years Margaret Thomas’s Charles Summers, c. 1879 (fi
The celebrated nineteenth-century British artist Sir Edward Burne-Jones (1833–1898) is well represented in the collection of the National Gallery of Victor
Over the past half century Chuck Close has reinvigorated the genre of portraiture with his painted, printed, photographic and drawn images of himself, his family and his friends.
Introduction In 1989 the National Gallery of Victoria acquired two nineteenth-century Tibetan scroll paintings (thangkas) depicting Tibetan Buddhist lamas: Yuntonpa with Begtse Chen (fig.
Joseph Wright of Derby chronicled his personal and professional life in a group of insightful self-portraits.
A fantastical conglomeration of shells, flowing marine forms and even a sea monster surrounds the portrait of Sir John Rous, 1st Baronet of Henham Hall, painted by Sir Peter Lely…
A fantastical conglomeration of shells, flowing marine forms and even a sea monster surrounds the portrait of Sir John Rous, 1st Baronet of Henham Hall, painted by Sir Peter Lely…
Museums, archives and libraries are the repositories of stories.
This portrait was probably painted during the reign of Shah Abbas (1587–1629), whose rule marked a period of stability and consolidation within the Persian Empire and saw the capital at Isfahan…
Of the many artists who worked in Australia after its discovery by Cook in 1770, Augustus Earle is one of the most versatile and interesting of the early ones
The portrait of Maria Elizabeth O’Mullane and her children was acquired by the National Gallery of Victoria in 1976 from a distant cousin of Maria O’Mullane’s descen
In keeping with Dr Ursula Hoff’s own practice and with the meticulous training she has urged upon her students, this short article offers thoughts arising from an examination of a single artefactR
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 National Gallery of Victoria has in its collection two paintings by the Dutch master Rembrandt Harmensz.