A remarkable undated drawing by Edward Lear (1812–88) blends natural history and whimsy.
In their own words lead researcher Louise Maher on the novel project that lets the Gallery’s portraits speak for themselves.
Once central to military strategy and venerated in patriotic households, Lord Kitchener is now largely forgotten.
Desperately seeking Woolner medallions
This is my last Trumbology before, in a little more than a week from now, I pass to my successor Karen Quinlan the precious baton of the Directorship of the National Portrait Gallery.
Where do we draw a line between the personal and the historical? Although she died in Melbourne in 1975, when I was not quite eleven years old, I have the vividest memories of my maternal grandmother Helen Borthwick.
Dr Helen Nugent AO, Chairman, National Portrait Gallery at the opening of 20/20: Celebrating twenty years with twenty new portrait commissions.