This is a completely intact original framing for this watercolour, including the thin wooden panel used to protect the reverse.

Discovering the first cast of The thinker When the great American Rodin specialist Professor Albert E.

The legend of John Peter Russell has many attractive aspects, but none more so than his friendship with Vincent Van Gogh.

One of the aspects of the last two decades of the 19th century is the emergence in art of new shoots of movements and styles, which were to come into…

Download In this edition of the Quarterly Bulletin of the National Gallery of Victoria, Ursula Hoff discusses recent acquisitions to the print room including St John the Baptist in the…

Australian art of the first two to three decades of the twentieth century exists today, if indeed it finds focus at all in the received history of Australian art, beneath a…

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…

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

A knowledge of picture frames can prove invaluable to an art historian seeking to date a painting or to confirm aspects of its provenance

‘Clothes,’ said Miss Proctor, sitting in that white-walled studio of hers where the woodcuts make such attractive spashes [sic] of yellow and magenta and vermilion, ‘fashionable clothes are too much t

Having worked initially in the poetic idiom of figurative engraving on glass, noted British artist Stephen Procter later abandoned the practice in favour of larger scale, essentially abstract or sculptural for

From at least 1647 onwards, Rembrandt executed many of his prints on papers of oriental origin

The artist should preach the beautiful in our commonplace and everyday existence.

Hugh Ramsay studied at the National Gallery School, Melbourne, from 1894 to 1899

An effect is only momentary: so an impressionist tries to find his place.