In 1891 and 1892 a group of sixty-four prints was acquired that formed the foundation of the NGV’s now-renowned holdings of European print

Nestled within the permanent collection of French Impressionist paintings at NGV International, for the first time, the work of Japanese artists of the nineteenth century take centre stage to contextualise…

A largely self-taught artist, whose work received more praise in France than in his own country during his lifetime, Edwards was a pioneer of plein-air painting in Britain.

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

In 1908, English-born, Paris-based artist Gwen John took a job as an artist model for the Swiss-German painter Ottilie Roederstein.

In 2015 the National Gallery of Victoria was fortunate to acquire from a private donor a painting by the distinguished British artist George Frederic Watts (1817–1904

In the year 1911, at the age of 53, the famous Australian stage actress and pantomime artist Nellie Stewart sat for her portrait in the Melbourne studio of a young…

Portraiture is, and always has been, an important component of the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV).

Happy New Year! What a year 2016 has been. Here’s a flashback to some of our favourite moment

Inspired Ideas Linking Landscapes  Ideas for linking Degas’s pastel drawing Beach at low tide, (Plage à marée basse) with the work of other art

Discovering the first cast of The thinker When the great American Rodin specialist Professor Albert E.

The legend of John Peter Russell has many attractive aspects, but none more so than his friendship with Vincent Van Gogh.

One of the aspects of the last two decades of the 19th century is the emergence in art of new shoots of movements and styles, which were to come into…

Australian art of the first two to three decades of the twentieth century exists today, if indeed it finds focus at all in the received history of Australian art, beneath a…

Since the revival of interest in printmaking and the simultaneous rediscovery of Australian women artists in the 1970s, the name Jessie Traill has been treated with growing respect by curators, collectors and…