As a teenager, at school in the port city of Le Havre, Monet preferred to draw caricatures of his classmates and teachers rather than pay attention in class.

Laith McGregor grew up in Queensland and moved to Melbourne in 2002.

Note to reader Throughout its life, the NGV’s scholarly journal has been published under various names as quarterly and annual editions: Quarterly Bulletin of the National Gallery of Victoria, 1945–58;…

As a small and fragmentary work of art, the Processional cross (figs 1 & 2) in the National Gallery of Victoria has not received a great deal of attention from…

The Trinitarias carpet (fig.

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.