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This book introduces the reader to the key people who have shaped the history of Britain, its culture and identity, by exploring essential highlights from the National Portrait Gallery’s unrivalled ...

The online database contains information on over 220,000 works, 150,000 of which are illustrated; the National Portrait Gallery's collection includes over 350,000 works. We update the database daily.

Diana (née Bridgeman), Lady Abdy (1907-1967), Fashion leader; wife of Sir Robert Henry Abdy; daughter of 5th Earl of Bradford. 15 Portraits Hariot (née Alston), Lady Abdy (1819-1877), Wife of Sir ...

Join exhibition curator Tanya Bentley as she introduces this year’s Portrait Award as the Herbert Smith Freehills Portrait Award makes a welcome return to the Gallery. Tanya Bentley will share how the ...

Painter, printmaker and designer, best known for the compelling realism of his portraits. He learnt painting from his father, Hans Holbein the Elder, and worked in Basle, Switzerland, before moving to ...

Painter. Born in London, Burra studied at Chelsea School of Art (1921-3) and the Royal College of Art (1923-4). He worked in large scale watercolours, as his chronic arthritis made working in oils too ...

The exhibition begins by introducing the fashionable Bluestocking Circle and exploring how a tight-knit group of women became a model for rational 'Enlightenment' forms of sociability. The ...

Objects and other elements within the portrait including art, books, clocks, flowers, maps, mirrors, pets and textiles ...

King George VI is found dead in his bed in Sandringham; he had been suffering from lung cancer. His daughter Elizabeth, who was in Kenya at the time, became Queen, the only monarch not to know the ...

A partnership between Samuel Bourne and Charles Shepherd, the firm were commercial publishers of landscape and topographical views of India. Although based in Calcutta and Simla, where they operated ...

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, ...