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National Portrait Gallery, London
National Portrait Gallery, London

Founded in 1856 and located just off Trafalgar Square, the National Portrait Gallery is home to the largest collection of portraiture in the world, featuring famous men and women who have helped shape British history from the great Tudor courts to the present day, with contemporary portraits reflecting the diversity, inventiveness and multi-culturalism of modern-day Britain. By weaving together 500 years of history, art, biography and fame, the Gallery offers a unique and fascinating insight into those individuals that together characterise a nation. Visitors can come face to face with kings and queens, courtiers and courtesans, politicians and poets, soldiers and scientists, artists and writers, philosophers and film stars. Its 3,000 paintings feature some of the most iconic and instantly recognisable faces in British history, from Elizabeth I to J. K. Rowling, with artists ranging from Holbein to Hockney. Behind each image is a fascinating story giving an insight into an individual who stood out in their generation and enriched our culture and national consciousness.

National Portrait Gallery, London

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National Portrait Gallery, London

St Martin’s Place, London, Greater London WC2H 0HE England

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0207 306 0055

http://www.npg.org.uk/

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  • 21 January 2020

    #Didyouknow photographic postcards, like this one of #Suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst, were sold to supporters of the women's right to vote campaign in the early twentieth century? Find it in our free display Everyday Icons Collecting Popular Portraits, on until 1 March 2020. https://t.co/Y2A6emRR9P

Artworks

  • Elton John ('On the throne')
    Elton John ('On the throne') Suzi Malin (b.1949)
  • Elinor Glyn, née Sutherland
    Elinor Glyn, née Sutherland Arnold Mason (1885–1963)
  • Jack Smith
    Jack Smith Derrick Greaves (b.1927)
  • Sir James Crichton-Browne
    Sir James Crichton-Browne Gluck (1895–1978)
  • Victor Musgrave
    Victor Musgrave Maggi Hambling (b.1945)
  • (George Edward) Peter Thorneycroft, Baron Thorneycroft
    (George Edward) Peter Thorneycroft, Baron Thorneycroft Sidney Nolan (1917–1992)
  • Edward Irvine Halliday ('Alter Ego')
    Edward Irvine Halliday ('Alter Ego') Edward Irvine Halliday (1902–1984)
  • 3,513 more

Stories