The Great War in Portraits: A Painterly Remembrance National Portrait Gallery
Of all the events and memorial activities scheduled for this year to mark the centenary of the beginning of the… Read More
30 March 2014
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African Video Art: A Multi National Ben Uri Gallery Exhibition
A multi-national exhibition and platform for critical thinking, researching and presenting African video art will be mounted at the Ben… Read More
25 February 2014
Glittering National Portrait Gallery Fundraiser Attended By Duchess of Cambridge
The Duchess of Cambridge, patron of the National Portrait Gallery attended a ticketed black-tie fundraising event last night Tuesday 11… Read More
13 February 2014
David Bailey’s Landmark Exhibition Opens At London’s National Portrait Gallery
David Bailey’s landmark exhibition opens today (6 February) at the National Portrait Gallery, London. Selected by the photographer, Bailey’s Stardust… Read More
6 February 2014
National Portrait Gallery Raises £3.2m Towards Securing Van Dyck Self-portrait
£3.2 million has been raised in support of the National Portrait Gallery and Art Fund appeal to secure the last… Read More
31 January 2014
Top Authors Create Pen Portraits For National Portrait Gallery Fundraiser
Marina Warner, Hilary Mantel, Esther Freud, Joanna Trollope, Sir David Hare, Sir Michael Holroyd and Dame Jacqueline Wilson are among… Read More
23 January 2014
George Frederic Watts Archive Launched Online At National Portrait Gallery
The National Portrait Gallery have launched an online archive catalogue, enabling a wider audience to access details of the Gallery’s… Read More
21 January 2014
Phillip Prodger Appointed Curator of Photography At National Portrait Gallery
The National Portrait Gallery, London, has appointed Phillip Prodger, founding Curator of Photography at the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts,… Read More
15 January 2014
Tony Blair Painting By Alastair Adams Unveiled At National Portrait Gallery
London’s National Portrait Gallery, London, has unveiled its most recent commissioned portrait, a painting of Tony Blair by artist Alastair… Read More
20 December 2013
National Portrait Gallery Announces 35th Portrait Award Competition
The National Portrait Gallery has announced that it is now accepting entries for the thirty-fifth Portrait Award, one of the… Read More
3 December 2013
Landmark David Bailey Exhibition At National Portrait Gallery Announced
A landmark exhibition of the work of David Bailey is to open at the National Portrait Gallery, London, in February… Read More
5 September 2013
First Portrait Of Guinea Pig Discovered At National Portrait Gallery
A little known painting of three Elizabethan children containing what may be the first portrait of a guinea pig has… Read More
20 August 2013
Bob Carlos Clarke Celebrity Portraits Donated To The National Portrait Gallery
An impressive selection of rarely seen celebrity portraits by renowned photographer Bob Carlos Clarke have been donated to the National… Read More
13 August 2013
National Portrait Gallery Commissions Ben Okri Poem To Freed Slave Ayuba Suleiman Diallo
The Booker Prize winning writer Ben Okri has been commissioned by the National Portrait Gallery to write a new poem… Read More
7 August 2013
Bob Dylan To Exhibit Pastel Portraits At National Portrait Gallery
The National Portrait Gallery, London will be exhibiting pastel portraits by Bob Dylan in September. This is the first time… Read More
5 August 2013
Damien Hirst Gets Pickled In Formaldehyde For National Portrait Gallery Exhibition
Damien Hirst will feature in a central display of artwork by Jonathan Yeo at the National Portrait Gallery in September…. Read More
31 July 2013
National Portrait Gallery To Host First Ever Private View Exclusively For Young People
The National Portrait Gallery is to host its first ever Private View exclusively for young people (Monday 29 July 2013,… Read More
24 July 2013
Scandal 63: National Portrait Gallery celebrates 50th Anniversary of Profumo Affair
A new display commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of one of the biggest scandals to rock the British establishment, the Profumo… Read More
30 April 2013
Photographs by Francis Goodman Displayed At National Portrait Gallery
Photographs by Francis Goodman (1913-89) will go on display from 23 April 2013 at the National Portrait Gallery, London to… Read More
17 April 2013
Dame Maggie Smith Immortalised At National Portrait Gallery
The National Portrait Gallery, London, has unveiled its most recent commissioned portrait, a painting of Dame Maggie Smith by the… Read More
9 April 2013
Kate Middleton Postcard Is A National Portrait Gallery Best Seller
Kate Middleton’s dark portrait painting by BP award winning artist Paul Emsley has become the best selling postcard in in… Read More
31 March 2013
Jacob Epstein Exhibition Explores Busts At The National Portrait Gallery
The National Portrait Gallery, London has announced today (13 March 2013) that it will be holding a display of portrait… Read More
13 March 2013
Edith Tudor-Hart: Scottish National Portrait Gallery Exhibition Opens
Work by the Bauhaus Trained Photographer Edith Tudor-Hart, one of the most extraordinary photographers in Britain during the 1930s and… Read More
2 March 2013
National Portrait Gallery To Catalogue Papers Of George Frederic Watts
£23,582 has been received from the National Cataloguing Grants Programme for Archives to be used to document the contents of… Read More
21 February 2013
Man Ray and His Contemporaries New National Portrait Gallery Exhibition
A new exhibition of portraits by one the 20th century’s most inventive photographers, Man Ray opens at the National Portrait… Read More
6 February 2013
Kate Middleton’s Official Portrait Unveiled At National Portrait Gallery
Kate Middleton’s first official painted portrait was unveiled today at the National Portrait Gallery. It was commissioned by the gallery… Read More
11 January 2013
Craigie Aitchison Defaced Self Portrait Purchased By The National Portrait Gallery
A self-portrait which had been defaced by the late artist Craigie Aitchison, has been bought by the National Portrait Gallery,… Read More
17 December 2012
National Portrait Gallery Ups The Stake For BP Award
The National Portrait Gallery have announced an increase in prize money for the BP Portrait Award 2013, the world’s most… Read More
4 December 2012
AMY WINEHOUSE JEWEL LIKE PORTRAIT ACQUIRED BY NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY
London’s National Portrait Gallery has purchased a new painting of the late singer Amy Winehouse.The painting made shortly after the… Read More
26 November 2012
GEORGE CATLIN NATIVE AMERICAN PAINTINGS AT NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY
The National Portrait Gallery announced today The first major exhibition of George Catlin portraits to be held in Europe since… Read More
22 November 2012
Kate Middleton Painting To Be Exhibited At National Portrait Gallery
The Duchess of Cambridge will have a newly commissioned official portrait hanging in the National Portrait Gallery sometime in 2013,… Read More
7 November 2012
Queen Elizabeth Jubilee Painting Unveiled At National Portrait Gallery
A new official portrait of Her Majesty The Queen, painted by Australian-born, London-based artist Ralph Heimans was today unveiled by… Read More
28 September 2012