The form of this frame is similar to the John Thallon frame on Ramsay’s Self Portrait (smoking in front of piano), which dates to around the same time.

The group portrait of The Pybus family painted by Nathaniel Dance was acquired from descendants of the family in 2003.

The Self portrait of Rembrandt was first x radiographed in 1989. It was reshot in 2011, which is the image discussed here.

Rembrandt’s Portrait of a white haired man from 1667 is painted on a single piece of canva

The x radiograph was made when the previous lining had been removed and before the painting was re-lined, giving a unique image of the painting as an un-lined, un-stretched image….

The x radiograph of Portrait group: The singer Farinelli and friends reveals significant alterations to the dog in the lower right corner.

Hera Roberts was a painter, illustrator and designer, best known for her bold, modern cover designs for The Home Journal.

The NGV has announced five solo exhibitions by leading Australian contemporary artists Del Kathryn Barton, Helen Maudsley, Mel O’Callaghan, Louise Paramor and Gareth Sansom for its 2017-18 summer program at…

The NGV presents a major solo exhibition of one of Australia’s most popular artists, Del Kathryn Barto

Agnes Goodsir studied at the Bendigo School of Mines and Industries before moving to Paris in 1899.

The frame for John Brack’s Collins St. 5pm is contemporary with the wor

The former framing of Memling’s The Man of Sorrows in the arms of the Virgin, 1475, acquired in 1924, used an early sixteenth century Venetian style, pastiglia frame which had…

Ary Scheffer, The Temptation of Christ, (1854) acquired 1886, had been reframed at some time in a wooden profile frame of Whistlerian form, painted white and distressed to expose areas…

Framing the paintings by John Russell had been on the agenda for a number of years. John Russell’s portrait of Dr Will Maloney was painted in Paris in 188

The frame (a Louis XIV variant) on Degas’, Portrait of a woman, at the time of acquisition by the Felton Bequest in 1937, is a type associated with the Barbizon…