Join us for a discussion with previous winners of the Portrait Award, Ishbel Myerscough and Stuart Pearson Wright, as they talk about their careers in… ...

Born in Scotland, Henry Raeburn was first apprenticed to a goldsmith, but turned to painting miniatures, an art in which he was apparently self-taught. In around 1780 Raeburn married Ann Leslie, a ...

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This informal display in our Studio Gallery provides a snapshot of the Learning & Engagement activity that has happened both in and outside the Gallery since we reopened to the public just over a year ...

Speak to our friendly Events Team today to discover how we can bring your event to life inside the Gallery. From the contemporary to the classical, the National Portrait Gallery has a space to suit ...

Tudor paintings by Hans Holbein the Younger and contemporary photography by Hiroshi Sugimoto meet in the National Portrait Gallery’s first exhibition of historic portraiture since reopening, ...

The Gallery is home to the most extensive collection of portraits in the world. Search over 220,000 works, from the 8th century to the present day. A new BBC Radio 4 series to mark our reopening. Over ...

Daniel Defoe was a novelist, pamphleteer and journalist who gained enduring fame for his novel Robinson Crusoe (1719). Defoe is notable for being one of the earliest practitioners of the novel who ...

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Barnett Freedman was born in the East End of London, the child of Russian Jewish immigrant parents. He attended the Royal College of Art (1922). Freedman became a designer and illustrator, and was a ...

This painting shows James on screen in Hancock's Half Hour and includes collage elements. The world comes to the brink of nuclear war with the Cuban Missile Crisis. In response to the USA's nuclear ...