The excitement of romance

With Cupid in mind, we look at two works from QAGOMA’s collection with romance as their underlying subject – at the Gallery we believe that love conquers all barriers – and that is the way it should be. Arthur Boyd: The lady and the unicorn portfolio Arthur Boyd’s etchings for The lady and the unicorn…

Is a proposal in the air?

Chester Earles was initially trained as a miniature portrait painter at the London National Gallery, England and exhibited widely before migrating to Victoria in early 1864 where he continued to paint in his spare time. Earles was regularly praised for his figurative painting when most artists in Australia were already turning to landscape. Interior with…