While he was also active in the genres of landscape and portraiture, Leonard Appelbee remains best known as a master of still-life painting.

Handsome, erudite and well connected, Glyn Philpot made a considerable name for himself in the 1910s and 1920s as a fashionable society portrait painter.

A gifted young artist, William Rothenstein enrolled at London’s Slade School of Art in 1888 at the age of sixtee

A self-trained artist, Cedric Morris absorbed influences from a wide variety of artists and sources, living in artistic communities in Cornwall and Paris in the 1920s.

White primula, 1931, was among seven paintings formally presented to the NGV by the Felton Bequest Committee in August 1937, the first purchases made by London-based Sir Sydney Cockerell as…

In late 2018 – a year that has come to be associated with a renewed critical analysis of the expectations and challenges facing girls and women throughout the world, from…

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries anti-Jewish pogroms in Russia led to the flight of some two million Jewish people from the Russian Empire.

Laurie Benson, Curator, International Art, shares a story of hidden identities and dual personalities revealed in the NGV’s first acquisition of a German Expressionist paintin

The NGV Collection of British eighteenth-century paintings has long been recognised as one of its greatest strengths.

Danielle Whitfield, Curator, Fashion and Textiles, and Susan van Wyk, Senior Curator, Photography, share their perspectives of a dress that first found its way into the NGV Collection via a…

In 2017 the National Gallery of Victoria acquired an important portrait from the French Romantic period by a recently rediscovered artist, Louise Bouteiller.

To speak of magic as a distinct sphere of activity, divorced from other aspects of life, both spiritual and practical, is to impose a modern construct over what, to the…

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.

The works of contemporary Australian artist TextaQueen tackle questions of identity, particularly around ancestry and gender, which are unpacked in drawings in texta (felt-tipped pens).