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Portrait of a boy (Robin)
This exquisite painting is a portrait of Robin John, the third son of Augustus John’s first wife, Ida Nettleship, at the age of fifteen or sixtee
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Graphic portraits
Inspired by Julian Opie’s Walking in the Rain series
Levels 6-10 In this activity, students will explore the creative process and work of contemporary artist Julian Opie, considering how he uses a graphic visual language to represent the essential…
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Art of Portraiture Online
All levels Mon – Fri, 10am, 11.30am, 1pm,
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Brilliant vision: the making of Van Dyck’s dazzling portrait of Rachel de Ruvigny
Universally acknowledged as one of the greatest exponents of the art of portraiture, Anthony van Dyck’s portrait of Rachel de Ruvigny, the Countess of Southampton (1603-1640) is a superlative example…
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Mary Beale: pioneer of portraiture
Mary Beale’s three-quarter-length Self-portrait with husband and son
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Mary Beale: pioneer of portraiture
Listen to Dr Lisa Mansfield ‘Women’s lives were regulated by gendered expectations and social constraints that dictated their roles and responsibilities as dutiful daughters, obedient wives, and devoted mothers, within…
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A hand is discovered in Anne Forbes’ Portrait of Lady Elizabeth Hamilton
Dr. Maria Quirk reflects on the work
In preparing this painting, Portrait of Lady Hamilton by Anne Forbes, for display, NGV Conservators discovered a hand that had previously been painted over.
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Pop art portraits
Inspired by Andy Warhol's Self-portrait No. 9
Levels 1-4 In this activity students will develop their understanding of how and why artists express ideas and meaning through self-portraits and consider the role of the viewer when engaging…
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Reading: Nora Heysen – A Portrait
Surrounded by Nora Heysen’s works, hear an excerpt of Anne-Louise Willoughby’s authorised biography, Nora Heysen – A Portrait, read by the a
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Portrait of a Gallery
Presented by Melbourne Design Week with Richard Sowada
LIDO: THU 14 & FRI 22 MAR, 7PM CLASSIC: SAT 16 MAR, 4PM & SAT 23 MAR, 7PM In 2011, the National Gallery of Ireland closed its doors at Merrion…
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Fragile identities: eighteenth-century British portraits in porcelain
The European mastery of a true hard-paste porcelain technology in Dresden in 1708 was a major scientific, technical and cultural achievement.
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G. F. Watts’s portrait of May Prinsep: a colonial orphan at the NGV
In 2015 the National Gallery of Victoria was fortunate to acquire from a private donor a painting by the distinguished British artist George Frederic Watts (1817–1904
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Mina Moore’s photographic portrait of Nellie Stewart
In the year 1911, at the age of 53, the famous Australian stage actress and pantomime artist Nellie Stewart sat for her portrait in the Melbourne studio of a young…
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‘Mr Cooper’s interesting present’: likeness and learning in William Dyce’s Portrait of HRH the Prince of Wales, 1848, National Gallery of Victoria
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.
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British and Australian portraits at the National Gallery of Victoria
Portraiture is, and always has been, an important component of the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV).