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The Art Gallery of New South Wales began life in 1871 as the New South Wales Academy of Art, holding exhibitions and buying its first works a few years later to support living colonial artists. Its first permanent home, opened in 1880, was a freestanding gallery built for the Sydney International Exhibition; the grand sandstone building that fronts the Domain today, with its classical portico and the names of European masters carved across the facade, was completed in stages from the 1890s. That...