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An Australian student of Frank Brangwyn: Jessie C. A. Traill in London and Belgium, 1907–1908
Since the revival of interest in printmaking and the simultaneous rediscovery of Australian women artists in the 1970s, the name Jessie Traill has been treated with growing respect by curators, collectors and…
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Artists in society: a Melbourne circle, 1850s–1880s
A recent acquisition of watercolours and drawings by Georgiana McCrae (1804–90), Louisa Anne Meredith (1812–95) and Edward La Trobe Bateman (18157–97) has greatly enriched the National Gallery of Victoria’s collection of works…
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Variation, transformation and interpretation: Watteau and Lucian Freud
A work which has remained in storage at the National Gallery of Victoria for many years is the small panel called Les jaloux (The jealous ones) 496/2 (fi
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The graphic context of Jusepe de Ribera’s The poet
The National Gallery of Victoria holds in its collection a fine impression of The poet (fig
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The art of Frederick McCubbin: a view of his materials and technique
A knowledge of the techniques and materials used by Frederick McCubbin throughout his career, together with a careful examination of the artist’s paintings, reveals McCubbin’s late work to be as technically complex…
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A souvenir of marvellous Melbourne: W. H. Rocke’s 1880–81 exhibition cabinet
The Royal Exhibition Buildings, Carlton, stand today as a monument to ‘Marvellous Melbour
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Prints of fortune: Hubert Herkomer’s 1891–92 etching purchases for the National Gallery of Victoria
In 1891 and 1892 the National Gallery of Victoria, then an institution barely thirty years old, purchased a group of sixty-four original old master and nineteenth-century engravings and etching
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A pioneer of Australian picture framing: an introduction to the work of Lillie Williamson
A knowledge of picture frames can prove invaluable to an art historian seeking to date a painting or to confirm aspects of its provenance
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The Aspremont Psalter-Hours: the making of a manuscript
The richly illuminated prayer-book known as the Aspremont Psalter-Hours has long been recognised as an important example of manuscript production from the Lorrai
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Contributions to the study of the Melbourne Triptych. II: The miracle of the loaves and fishes, The Raising of Lazarus, The Rest on the Flight to Egypt and St Peter
This study, which follows on from that of the left wing of the Melbourne triptych, the Marriage at Cana (fig. 1a),1
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Everard Studley Miller and his bequest to the National Gallery of Victoria
When Everard Studley Miller died aged sixty-nine on 5 July 1956, the major beneficiary of his £262 940 estate was the National Gallery of Victor
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A surprising ‘discovery’ in the Hamilton Art Gallery: a rare early drawing by Richard Parkes Bonington
In 1910, Mrs Edith Wharton, the American novelist, wrote in a letter to the journalist William Moreton Fullerton: I wished for you yesterday when I stood before the divine little…
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This edition of the Art Bulletin of Victoria 37 encompasses essays discussing works from a variety of areas of the NGV’s collection: Ann Galbally and Robyn Sloggett investigate John Peter…
Edition 37
This edition of the Art Bulletin of Victoria 37 encompasses essays discussing works from a variety of areas of the NGV’s collection: Ann Galbally and Robyn Sloggett investigate John Peter…
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Girl-in-a-Swing factory’s Holy family
This group shows the Virgin Mary and the Christ Child with St Elizabeth and the infant St John
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Félix Nadar’s Alexandre Dumas père
In 1995, the National Gallery of Victoria’s Women’s Association generously provided funds to enable us to acquire a substantial group of rare and important nineteenth-century French photo