In 1877 an engaging portrait drawing of a child by William Dyce (fig. 1) was given to the National Gallery of Victoria by a little-known collector, Duncan Elphinstone Cooper.
In mid May 1938 the then director of the National Gallery of Victoria, J. S. MacDonald, wrote disparagingly of the striking 1909 portrait Rt. Hon.
This essay was commissioned for and originally published in the Nov/Dec 2018 issue of NGV Magazine.
German-born photographer Horst P. Horst was one of the pre-eminent fashion photographers of the twentieth century.
In July 2016 Maria Grazia Chiuri became the seventh designer and first female creative director at Christian Dior.
This ornately veneered Cabinet on stand, c. 1685, is illustrative of the international orientation of English furniture production in the years following the restoration of Charles II in 1660.
In 1959 Melbourne architectural firm Grounds, Romberg and Boyd was awarded the contract to design the new National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) building.
This exhibition of 130 important pieces of Japanese Imari porcelain at the NGV has been enabled by a generous donation from Mrs Pauline Gandel, an enthusiastic benefactor of the NGV…
The turn of the twentieth century was a crucial time for women artists in Australia.
Ken Unsworth: Truly, Madly has been developed in close association with artist Ken Unsworth and is the first major exhibition of his work to be held in Melbourne
Early postcard images of the Salon at Château de Barante (the family home of the sitter) show the painting framed as part of the architectural setting rather than in a…
When the de Gelder was acquired in 1934 it was framed in an eighteenth century style French Louis XV frame.
2018 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the National Gallery of Victoria’s relocation from the site of the State Library in Swanston Street to St Kilda Roa
25 May – 28 October 2018 | NGV International | FREE In 1854, Japan opened its borders to international trade following a long period of self-imposed isolatio
In this third and final chapter on Salvador Dalí, his life and the painting Trilogy of the desert: Mirage, 1946, NGV Senior Fundraising Officer, Caroline Buckley, explores Dalí’s influence and…