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National Portrait Gallery, London. Open daily from 10.30. Free admission. We look after the world’s greatest collection of portraits.
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The Gallery is home to the most extensive collection of...
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The National Portrait Gallery Collection, from the 16th...
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In this show, we focus on portraits captured by McCartney,...
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The National Portrait Gallery (NPG) is an art gallery in London that houses a collection of portraits of historically important and famous British people. When it opened in 1856, it was arguably the first national public gallery in the world that was dedicated to portraits.
- Portraits of Richard III. Richard III was the last Yorkist king of England. He’s known as the evil, ambitious king who murdered the sons of Edward IV, the two princes in the tower, and seized the crown.
- Portrait of Henry VII. Born in Wales, Henry Tudor had a tenuous claim to the throne through his mother, the scheming Margaret Beaufort. But, skillful and shrewd, Henry defeated Richard III in the Battle of Bosworth in 1485 and seized the crown.
- Holbein Portrait of Henry VIII. There are a raft of Tudor portraits in Room 1. At that time, standalone portraiture was a hugely popular art form. Over time, the scale and imagery of the portraits became quite ambitious.
- Six Queens: Henry VIII’s Wives. The museum has portraits of 4 of the 6 wives of Henry VII. You remember the saying, right? “Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived.”
Jun 21, 2023 · Facial recognition: the 10 best exhibits in the revamped National Portrait Gallery. To mark the London gallery’s reopening this week after a £35m redevelopment, its director and chief curator ...
Founded in 1856, the aim of the National Portrait Gallery, London is ‘to promote through the medium of portraits the appreciation and understanding of the men and women who have made and...
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