{"id":1744,"date":"2012-09-28T10:20:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-28T00:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womenrep.org\/?p=1744"},"modified":"2023-08-30T10:20:45","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T00:20:45","slug":"governor-general-unveils-jubilee-portrait-of-queen-of-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/?p=1744","title":{"rendered":"Governor-General unveils Jubilee Portrait of Queen of Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another&nbsp;portrait of the Queen of Australia is unveiled in Canberra by the Governor-General, Quentin Bryce.&nbsp; Asked why he was chosen to&nbsp;paint the&nbsp;<em>only&nbsp;<\/em>official&nbsp;jubilee portrait, artist Ralph Heimans&nbsp;speculates that&nbsp;because the portrait was to be unveiled at the National Portrait Gallery and displayed in&nbsp;Australia probably played a part.&nbsp; Quite cooincidentally, WfaAR is sure,&nbsp;Heimans is Australian born but lives in the UK.&nbsp; The portrait is on loan from the artist for the&nbsp;&#8216;Glorious&#8217; exhibition at&nbsp;the National Portrait Gallery with&nbsp;works&nbsp;representing our&nbsp;Queen in the early and late years of her reign drawn from&nbsp;NPG&#8217;s collection,&nbsp;together with portraits&nbsp;of Australians on&nbsp;whom she has bestowed&nbsp;honours.&nbsp; It runs&nbsp;until 31 March 2013.&nbsp;[Artist captures &#8216;vulnerable&#8217; Queen in true light by Ron Cerabona, The Canberra Times, 20 September 2012]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another&nbsp;portrait of the Queen of Australia is unveiled in Canberra by the Governor-General, Quentin Bryce.&nbsp; Asked why he was chosen to&nbsp;paint the&nbsp;only&nbsp;official&nbsp;jubilee portrait, artist Ralph Heimans&nbsp;speculates that&nbsp;because the portrait was to be unveiled at the National Portrait Gallery and displayed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-20","wpcat-20-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1744"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1745,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1744\/revisions\/1745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}