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…

The former framing of the painting was a re-worked nineteenth century frame which had been given a 1920’s stippled surfac

A supply of Californian redwood timber (Sequoia sempervirens) was found in 2006/7 in the form of a plank from the base of a wardrobe in a timber yard in Warnambool….

The first oil painting attributed to Rembrandt came into the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria in 1933.

The French, Régence, Louis XIV frame on Largilliere’s portrait Crown Prince Frederick Augustus of Saxony is carved in o

When acquired in 2008, Leon Pole’s The village laundress, 1891, was framed with a fluted scotia fram

The former framing of Portrait of a gentleman in grey coat, c.1747, dated to the late nineteenth century.

Nathaniel Dance’s portrait group The Pybus Family, c.1760, came to the collection with the original eighteenth century English frame in the Carlo Maratta styl

The frame on Ribera’s The Martyrdom of St Lawrence (1620-24) (acquired 2006) is believed to have been made for a former owner of the painting Count Anatole Nikolaievich Demidov (1813-1870)…