In 2017 the National Gallery of Victoria acquired an important portrait from the French Romantic period by a recently rediscovered artist, Louise Bouteiller.
The evolution of convincing images was indeed anticipated by nature long before human minds could conceive this trick … the art historian and the critic could do worse than ponder…
Universally acknowledged as one of the greatest exponents of the art of portraiture, Anthony van Dyck’s portrait of Rachel de Ruvigny, the Countess of Southampton (1603-1640) is a superlative example…
‘Australians will stand beside the mother country to help and defend her to the last man and the last shillin
In 1908, English-born, Paris-based artist Gwen John took a job as an artist model for the Swiss-German painter Ottilie Roederstein.
Although Sonia Delaunay and Harriet Whitney Frishmuth never met, if they had they would have found much in common. Both artists were highly educated, multilingual and visually astute.
In 1908, every day for a week, suffragette Mary Maloney followed Winston Churchill to his public engagements.
This essay was originally published in the 2019 July/August edition of NGV Magazine.
In his 1956 autobiography, Christian Dior reflected on ‘the miracle of fashion’, commenting that ‘in the world today haute couture is one of the last repositories of the marvellous and…
Florence Ada Fuller is an artist scarcely recognised today.
It is very likely that English artist E.M. Ward designed this remarkable frame specifically for his painting Josephine signing the act of her divorce.
During the second half of the nineteenth century Elizabeth Thompson, later known as Lady Butler, was one of Britain’s most renowned artist
It is an enchanting scene.
Japan in 1920s and 1930s was a time when traditional art and aesthetics merged with European life and culture.
Dreams are incredibly powerful. I think only in dreams are we free and naked.