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BP Portrait Awards: A Non Starter Slippery As An Oil Slick

BP Portrait Awards: A Non Starter Slippery As An Oil Slick

by News Desk | Jun 18, 2015 | Features

The genre ‘portraiture’ is as open ended as the limitless expanses of landscape, history painting, still lifes, and abstract: yet while on paper the BP award is as thematically open, and democratically open to everyone to enter, whether amateur or...
Jack Smith Rarely Seen Abstract Portraits To Be Exhibited At NPG

Jack Smith Rarely Seen Abstract Portraits To Be Exhibited At NPG

by News Desk | Mar 19, 2015 | News

A selection of rarely seen abstract paintings by the important British artist Jack Smith has gone on show at the National Portrait Gallery, London, in the Gallery’s first display to focus on entirely non-figurative portraits, it was announced today. Jack...

Simon Rattle Portrait Shot On 150-Year Old Camera Unveiled At NPG

by News Desk | Jan 19, 2015 | News

A previously unpublished photograph of the British conductor Sir Simon Rattle by Rory Coonan has been unveiled at The National Portrait Gallery. The portrait was shot in 1982 on film, using a 150-year-old plate camera. The acquisition is announced to mark Sir...
Vivienne Westwood Commission Unveiled At National Portrait Gallery

Vivienne Westwood Commission Unveiled At National Portrait Gallery

by News Desk | Sep 16, 2014 | News

The National Portrait Gallery has unveiled its latest commissioned portrait – a photograph of Dame Vivienne Westwood in her garden by artist and photographer Juergen Teller. Commissioned by gallery and exhibited as London Fashion Week draws to a close, the work...
Roald Dahl Portrait By Matthew Smith Goes On Display At The NPG

Roald Dahl Portrait By Matthew Smith Goes On Display At The NPG

by News Desk | Aug 6, 2014 | News

A rarely seen portrait of one of the world’s most celebrated writers, Roald Dahl, painted when he was a young RAF pilot during the Second World War by Matthew Smith, has gone on display at the National Portrait Gallery, it was announced today, Wednesday 6 August...
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