The great museums and galleries in Australia do more than acquire, maintain and display their collections; they are also centres of academic research driven by their curators. Nowhere is this better demonstrated than in Portrait, the magazine of the National Portrait Gallery. Its current issue contains an excellent range of articles by curators revealing fascinating aspects of the collection including developments in the portraiture of Nicholas Harding and Gallery Director Angus Trumble on the recent acquisition of the rare enamel portrait of William Manning by Henry Bone.