Marshall Claxton’s painting An emigrant’s thoughts of home (1859) (
This edition of the Art Bulletin of Victoria 33 features essays that examine a wide range of works from the NGV’s collectio
The eighty-five-year-old magistrate is shown without the stiff formality of many dogal portraits, almost as though he was ready to converse with the viewer.1 Ε. Pillsbury &
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…
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
This study, which follows on from that of the left wing of the Melbourne triptych, the Marriage at Cana (fig. 1a),1
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
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…
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
This head covering shows the deceased, Pedehorpasheriesi, whose name is given on the fillet that decorates the headdress
The National Gallery of Victoria’s Connell Collection provoked great excitement when first exhibited in 19
‘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
In about 1750 the young Johan Zoffany1He was born Johann Joseph Zauffalӱ at Frankfurt-am-Main in 1733, the son of the Bohemian-born Franz Zauffalӱ, who was originally a cabinet-maker, but later…
Imagine if you could spend two whole days in a gallery discovering the tricks of the trade of master artists such as Raphael and Michelangelo and understanding what they did…