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Elizabeth Thompson’s The 28th Regiment at Quatre Bras

A celebrated military painter

Unlike other military painters at the time whose work depicted aerial views of battle, Thompson created paintings so realistic that people thought they were witnessing the real events when viewing them. The terror and intensity of battle is captured in detail on the faces of the individual soldiers.

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Collection Highlights

John BRACK
Collins St, 5p.m.
 1955 Katsushika HOKUSAI
The great wave off Kanagawa
 (c. 1830)
from the Thirty-six views of Mt Fuji series 1826-33 Emily Kam Kngwarray
Anwerlarr anganenty (Big yam Dreaming)
 1995 Lee KRASNER
Combat
 1965 Yayoi KUSAMA
Flower obsession
 (2016-2017) Pablo PICASSO
Weeping woman
 (1937) Margaret PRESTON
Flannel flowers
 1938 Grace Cossington SMITH
The Bridge in-curve
 (1930) Giambattista TIEPOLO
The Banquet of Cleopatra
 (1743-1744) John William WATERHOUSE
Ulysses and the Sirens
 1891

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The paper boy 1888

By Michael Varcoe-Cocks

 Encompassing an Empire

By Holly McGowan-Jackson

 Technical insights to Elizabeth Thompson The 28th Regiment at Quatre Bras 1875

By Michael Varcoe-Cocks

 Lady Elizabeth Hamilton’s hidden gesture

By Carl Villis
Collecting Comme Ebook

Features new writing on Rei Kawakubo’s practice, an interview with NGV donor Takamasa Takahashi, video content and more than 150 striking photographs of Comme des Garçons works.

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Art Journal

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Fragile identities: eighteenth-century British portraits in porcelain

By Matthew Martin

 ‘Mr Cooper’s interesting present’: likeness and learning in William Dyce’s Portrait of HRH the Prince of Wales, 1848, National Gallery of Victoria

By Vivien Gaston

 The Lashmar family, 1857–58: emigration, photography and family ties

By Laura Jocic

 ‘Rich, effective pictorial pageantry’: Augustus John’s Rt. Hon. Harold Chaloner Dowdall, Lord Mayor of Liverpool and his sword-bearer, 1909

By Ted Gott
The Campbell-Pretty Fashion Research Collection

Acquired by the NGV from 2015 with the support of Krystyna Campbell-Pretty, in memory of her late husband Harold Campbell-Pretty, The Campbell-Pretty Fashion Research Collection is an acknowledgment of the growing importance of archival resources within museums today.

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