The earliest images we have of the framing of Streeton Near Heidelberg, 1890, acquired in 1943, shows a composition frame in the style of Louis XIV carrying a John Thallon…

Two x radiograph images have been made of the profile portrait.

‘We need to understand and learn from history because if we repeat history we head for tragedy… I wanted a presence and portraits that spoke, and through this process to…

Throughout his career, Mike Parr has explored the body and its limits.

The American born painter Mather Brown went to Europe in 1781 to study and work, and remained there for the rest of his life.

Gwen John’s paintings of women and girls with books have often been thought to reflect her introspective nature and spiritual leaning

When this painting, and a companion piece by Charles Baxter entitled Rosebud of England were exhibited in Melbourne’s fledgling Museum of Art in 1864, the Australasian newspaper considered them to…

In Celtic, Arthurian and medieval French legend, the Irish princess Yseult (also known as Iseult or Isolde) symbolized great beauty and virtue.

Between 1846 and 1852, George Frederick Folingsby worked in North America, Asia Minor, Greece and Europe.

This painting of a female figure dressed in a heavy overcoat is a small version of G. F. Watts’s large, full length portrait of May Hichens (nee Prinsep), 1853–1

Joshua Reynolds in the eighteenth century invented a new category of child portraiture, the ‘fancy portrait’, for which he employed children to dress up and pose in roles of the…

The sitter here is Cecil Webb, son of a distinguished Australian lawyer and King’s Counsel, Thomas Prout Web

One of the founders of the Pre Raphaelite Brotherhood, Millais’ early reputation was made through grand history paintings and narrative work

In 1851 John Linnell, who had an established reputation as a portrait painter and engraver in London, moved to Redhill, Surrey.

Holl entered London’s Royal Academy School at the age of sixteen and won its gold medal for historical painting two years late