In 1877 an engaging portrait drawing of a child by William Dyce (fig. 1) was given to the National Gallery of Victoria by a little-known collector, Duncan Elphinstone Cooper.
Portraiture is, and always has been, an important component of the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV).
For many years Margaret Thomas’s Charles Summers, c. 1879 (fi
The identity of both the painter and subject of this charming portrait has remained elusive. It has at times been attributed to Francis Cotes, Henry Singleton and Johan Zoffany.
NGV Festival of Photography William Eggleston Portraits NGV International | 17 March – 18 June 2017 | Free entry Direct from the National Portrait Gallery in London, the National Gallery…
FESTIVAL OF PHOTOGRAPHY William Eggleston is one of the most important photographic artists of the twentieth century.
The celebrated nineteenth-century British artist Sir Edward Burne-Jones (1833–1898) is well represented in the collection of the National Gallery of Victor
Over the past half century Chuck Close has reinvigorated the genre of portraiture with his painted, printed, photographic and drawn images of himself, his family and his friends.
Leopold Zborowski (1889–1932) (dealer), Paris; collection of M. Jonas Netter, Paris; J.-Ch. Girard, Paris (possibly a dealer); Etienne Bignou (dealer), Paris; exhibited Venice International Exhibition, 1930, Modigliani group, n
According to Cossio, this painting had been in the estate of M.
Probably Sotheby’s, London, before 1935 R.E.A. Wilson (dealer and restorer), London, 1935 sold to Howard Spensley (c.
Inventory of the collection of the Prince-Elector and Duke of Palatine Karl Theodor (1724–99), Mannheim, 1780, n
Introduction In 1989 the National Gallery of Victoria acquired two nineteenth-century Tibetan scroll paintings (thangkas) depicting Tibetan Buddhist lamas: Yuntonpa with Begtse Chen (fig.
The former framing of Portrait of a Lady (1570) was made by the company of John Thallon, possibly at the time of acquisition in 1933 and at the request of then…
The reframing of Profile portrait of a lady (c.1475) coincided with the cleaning and restoration of the painting in 2006-7