Angus Trumble was recognised as the pre-eminent interpreter of Victorian and Edwardian art and culture in Australia. 

He studied Fine Arts and History at the University of Melbourne, graduating BA (Hons) in 1986. In 1987, he was an intern at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice. He studied for a year at the Bibliotheca Hertziana in Rome, graduating MA (University of Melbourne) in 1993. From 1987 to 1991, he served as aide to Dr J. D. McCaughey AC, Governor of Victoria. In 1994, Angus won a Fulbright Scholarship for further study at the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University. He graduated MA (IFA/NYU) in January 1998. In January 1996, Angus was appointed Curator of European Art at the Art Gallery of South Australia in Adelaide. Angus then served as Senior Curator of Paintings and Sculpture at the Yale Center for British Art in New Haven, Connecticut, from 2003 to 2014. He took up the post of Director of the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra in February 2014, and left the role in 2018.

(Source : Australian Academy of the Humanities website)