The NGV will present its renowned collection of eighteenth-century porcelain sculpture in an upcoming exhibition, revealing eighteenth-century baroque life and culture – from commoners and aristocrats to famous actors and…

Collection of the sitter, Admiral Robert Deans (1740–1815), East Lothian, Scotland, until 1815; by descent to his son, Rear Admiral Robert Deans (1792–1867), 1815–67; then to his widow, Cheltenham, England,…

In the early 1760s, when Joshua Reynolds painted this portrait of the young Susanna Gale, daughter of a British sugar planter in Jamaica, his success as a society portraitist was…

A humble portrait of an esteemed man. The Mayor, looking frank, does not wear his official adornments.

Joseph Wright of Derby’s portrait of his daughter Anna is a fascinating example of an artist recycling an old canva

The portrait of Lady Rous and the companion portrait of Rt Hon. John Rous were painted in 1796 by the leading English Regency artist Sir William Beechey.

The x-radiograph of Longstaff’s Lady in grey led to a startling discover

At first glance it appears that the subject of this portrait is dressed in a full black costume over her buttoned-up white shirt.

Luminous is the first exhibition in twenty-five years to feature the National Gallery of Victoria’s outstanding collection of watercolours and gouache

Every ten years, Wright paints his own portrait. It is like a visual journal, contemplating his changing face and thoughts.

Mystery girl. Before she was identified as Lucrezia Borgia, this painting was called Portrait of a youth as nobody knew who the sitter was.

A major international exhibition featuring two of the most significant artists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries – Andy Warhol and Ai Weiwei – opens at the National Gallery of…

This major international exhibition features two of the most significant artists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries: Andy Warhol and Ai Weiwei

A self-portrait is a self-assertion of some kind; how does the artist want us to perceive him?

He is so enamoured by her beauty that John Rous commissions a life-size portrait of his new wife – whose descendants reside in Victor