When Margaret Winter-Irving married Bruce Mead in Melbourne on 24 June 1925, she wore a gold and ivory gown of metallic brocade styled in the latest flapper look of the…

The Felton Commissions (The Barak Project) was conceived as part of an ambitious three-tiered program that celebrates the National Gallery of Victoria’s 150th anniversary through a specific focus on the…

Set against a brilliant cloud-flecked azure sky, the subjects of Lynne Roberts-Goodwin’s portraits possess a quiet pride and intensit

In 1688 James II, the Catholic King of England, Scotland and Ireland, was ousted by parliament in the Glorious Revolution and fled to exile in France.

For those of you who are interested in the early influences on Monet, before he became an art student in Paris, head up to the 19th–mid 20th Century Painting and…

There’s nothing more delightful to me than sitting in a theatre waiting for a show.

In late 2009 Mrs Alina Cade generously gave two extraordinary portraits by the renowned eighteenth-century British artist Joseph Wright of Derby: Self-portrait (fig.

The Tasmanian-born artist Robert Dowling (1827–1886) produced the most significant nineteenth-century paintings that depicted Aboriginal people as the subject of major composition

The National Gallery of Victoria mounted the exhibition Rebels and Precursors: Aspects of Painting in Melbourne 1937–1947 in 196

In recent years the Joe White Bequest has enabled the acquisition of significant early works on paper for the collection.

The recent donation of Arthur Loureiro’s Portrait of Marie Therese Smith, 1888–89, makes an important addition to the NGV’s holdings of this significant late-nineteenth-century artist�

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…

Visitors to the National Gallery of Victoria often plan to see a specific exhibition they are interested in.

I have always been interested in how actions taken in the past could affect and echo in peoples’ lives in the presen

I have always been interested in how actions taken in the past could affect and echo in peoples’ lives in the presen