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
Gareth Sansom: Transformer traces the career of one of Australia’s most provocative artist
Jožef Tominc trained as an artist in Rome in proximity to his mentor and rival, Jean-Auguste-Dominque Ingres
This unsigned portrait of an unidentified Spanish noblewoman was acquired by the NGV in 1926 as a work of the renowned Spanish master Francisco de Goya.
The X-radiograph highlights the wood grain running vertically through the panel, and also makes more apparent the extent of the insect damage mostly in the lower right corner of the…