When this lovely example of Regency fashion entered the collection in 2018, the NGV Textiles Conservation team went scrambling for their history books and Jane Austen novels.
NGV International | 19 December 2020 – 18 April 2021 | Free entry Thursday 8 October 2020: Exploring some of the most globally relevant and pressing issues of our time, including…
NGV International | 10 March 2022 to 21 August 2022 | Free entry “Queer” as a concept runs against all definitions, all fixed meaning, forever questioning, redeploying, twisting terms, texts…
In a recent online event, NGV curators Cathy Leahy and Petra Kayser introduced a number of etchings by Rembrandt Harmensz.
This unique portrait by the British painter, Joseph Highmore, displays an incredibly personal rendering of his daughter Susanna surrounded by the things that she most loved.
The NGV is delighted to present Mutual Trust clients with a specially curated experience following your talk about the wonderful women photographers practicing at the Paris end of Collins Street,…
Explore the history of women artists in Europe in the NGV Collection from the 1600s to the eighteenth century with Assistant Curator of Collections and Research at NGV, Dr.
The Sydney realist Herbert Badham was an insightful and wry observer of Australian life in the 1930s and 1940s.
An artist who is largely forgotten today, Henry Moore was acclaimed in the 1870s and 1880s as Britain’s foremost painter of the se
Ben Nicholson is the painter who, more than anyone else, brought progressive English artists during the early 1930s into direct dialogue with their counterparts in Europe, working at the forefront…
A complex landscape study in which we see cattle grazing on the marshlands through a tracery of intertwined trees, Cecil Lawson’s Marshlands, 1876, was first exhibited with the title In…
Welsh-born artist Gwen John moved permanently to France in 1904 at the age of twenty-eight, even declining to return to Britain during the perilous years of the First World War….
In 1904 Annie Swynnerton created two paintings both titled New risen hope, depicting a naked child seemingly floating in mid-air, with head tilted back and eyes looking expectantly out at…
‘Genius consists in a man finding out what he is capable of and working at that for all he is worth’, Charles Napier Hemy said, assessing his own w
A blue-eyed lady who appears to be a singer, or an actress, stands on a stage before a curtained backdrop.