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William Robinson
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Unique in the world, perhaps, is a bronze sculpture that fuses the age-old human portrait bronze tradition, and the later genre of the bronze pug figurine: that’d be William Robinson’s Self-portrait with pug.
A charming prospect
Nearest & Dearest
Family fortunes
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William Bligh
Welcome home, Captain Bligh
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Breakfast
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Begin your day in an elegant, convivial, award-winning building.
Pedestrian Access
Location
Directions for walking to the Gallery from Civic.
Kate
Who are you?
The two portraits that I've chosen to compare and contrast and to bring together a self portrait by John Brack in 1955, and William Yang, Self Portrait #2.
Cocktail reception
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We can provide a stunning, sophisticated space for your cocktail reception.
Conference or seminar
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We can tailor our spaces to suit your conference, seminar or forum.
Jane’s conviction
Devotion
Stand by your man
Welcome home, Captain Bligh
27 March 2015
Archived media releases 2015
The National Portrait Gallery will, next Tuesday, unveil an exciting new acquisition of irrefutable importance to all Australians. Portrait of William Bligh, in master’s uniform c. 1776, attributed to John Webber, is one of the earliest portraits of the contentious, historical figure, and extends the Gallery’s remarkable collection of early colonial portraits.
Wedding
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Allow us to paint the possibilities of your wedding reception.
From riot to revelry
Nearest & Dearest
Pride, protest, panache
Architecture
About us
Natural light and human proportions – the design by Johnson Pilton Walker
National Portrait Gallery Director's tenure ends in triumph
30 November 2018
Archived media releases 2018
National Portrait Gallery Director Angus Trumble is ending his five-year tenure with a flourish, after announcing that Gallery publication Dempsey’s People: A Folio of British Street Portraits 1824-1844 has been awarded the 2018 William MB Berger Prize for British Art History.
The Lambert
Beards
Barbering manuals of the turn of the century might describe this style as a ‘Van Dyck’, named after the Dutch painter Anthony van Dyck (1599–1641) who is known to have adopted this look.
All together now, 2012
by Clare Thackway
General content
Finalist, iD2012