In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries anti-Jewish pogroms in Russia led to the flight of some two million Jewish people from the Russian Empire.
Rothenstein rented a room in London’s Spital Square for three years to study and sketch the Jews attending the nearby synagogue after his first visit there in 190
Laurie Benson, Curator, International Art, shares a story of hidden identities and dual personalities revealed in the NGV’s first acquisition of a German Expressionist paintin
Property of a deceased estate, 2017; Corringe’s, Lewes, 21 March 2017, lot 758, Full length portrait of a lady wearing a white dress and holding a bouquet of roses; Christie’s…
Provenance: Private collection, UK; Bonham’s Knightsbridge, 27 April 2016, Portrait of a lady, said to be Miss Weston, bust-length, in a gold dress with a blue sash, Lot 186, as…
Start Here: International Collection 19th – 20th Century, Level 2, NGV International Artwork 1: Self-portrait n
The NGV Collection of British eighteenth-century paintings has long been recognised as one of its greatest strengths.
Learn the story behind modernist Australian painter Grace Crowley’s Portrait (1939), including the incredible discovery of a second painting, uncovered by conservators during treatmen
Bouteiller’s exquisite portrait depicts friend and artist Césarine de Houdetot, both were French women born outside of Fran
Explore the many aspects of motherhood, from tenderness and nurturing, to perseverance and grief, in a visual journey of works in the NGV Collection including Cornelis de Vos’s Mother and…
Danielle Whitfield, Curator, Fashion and Textiles, and Susan van Wyk, Senior Curator, Photography, share their perspectives of a dress that first found its way into the NGV Collection via a…
In 2017 the National Gallery of Victoria acquired an important portrait from the French Romantic period by a recently rediscovered artist, Louise Bouteiller.
To speak of magic as a distinct sphere of activity, divorced from other aspects of life, both spiritual and practical, is to impose a modern construct over what, to the…
Levels 3-6 In this activity students will explore the theme of urban Australian life by examining Collins Street, 5p.m., 1955, by artist John Brack.
Friday 3 April: The National Gallery of Victoria is delighted to launch a new four-part virtual series of its popular Drop-by Drawing