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Lady Isabella Louisa Parry
Biography
Isabella Louisa Parry (née Stanley, 1801–1839), amateur artist, community worker and collector, was the daughter of Sir John Stanley, first Baron Stanley of Alderley, a Whig politician and member of the Royal Society.
1 portrait in the collection
Isabella Louisa Parry, c. 1826
an unknown artist
Portrait, watercolour on ivory
Purchased 2014
KB Bailey, 2018
by Isabella Capezio
Image
Madison
Isabella Moore
Image
Captain W Kinghorne, 1834
Thomas James Lempriere
Portrait, oil on canvas
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by The Ian Potter Foundation 2007
Study for commissioned portrait of HRH Crown Princess Mary of Denmark (full-length study), 2005
Jiawei Shen
Portrait, oil on canvas
Commissioned with funds provided by Mary Isabel Murphy 2005
Headspace 3
Being Me
Previous exhibition, 2002
The self-portrait enables students to explore emerging and changing aspects of their own identity, their sense of self, their place in the world, their experience of being human
Sarah Siddons (née Kemble)
John Downman
Image
Recognition
Percy Leason's Aboriginal Portraits
Previous exhibition, 1999
Originally conceived as an anthropological record, Percy Leason’s powerful 1934 portraits of Victorian Aboriginal people are today considered to be a highlight of 20th century Australian portraiture
The bright-eyed Mariner
Magazine article by Dr Sarah Engledow, 2008
A new colonial portrait brings a zealous captain near. 
Mr John Eason, 1838
W. B. Gould
Portrait, oil on canvas
Purchased with funds provided by the Liangis family 2013
Headspace 1
Previous exhibition, 2000
Headspace showcases portrait art produced by secondary students from Year 7 to Year 12 in Government, Catholic and Independent schools in Canberra and its surrounding regions extending to Wollongong, Deniliquin, Leeton, Crookwell, Bombala, Narooma and Albury
Madame Marie Carandini
Biography
Marie Carandini (née Burgess, 1826–1894), aka 'Madame Carandini', was seven years old when her family arrived in Van Diemen's Land as assisted immigrants.
1 portrait in the collection
Finalists announced for National Photographic Portrait Prize
14 November 2018
Archived media releases 2018
The National Portrait Gallery would like to congratulate the forty finalists for the National Photographic Portrait Prize 2019.
Emblems of beauty
Magazine article by Keith Christiansen, 2012
Keith Christiansen introduces the exhibition The Renaissance Portrait from Donatello to Bellini on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Presence and absence
Magazine article by Joanna Gilmour, 2018
The art of Australia’s colonial women painters affords us an invaluable, alternative perspective on the nascent nation-building project.