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The Gallery was founded in 1856 to collect portraits of famous British men and women. Explore over 175,000 portraits from the 16th Century to the present day.

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William Dobson 1611-46

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On this day, 29 January, in 1939

Germaine Greer (1939-)

Writer and journalist was born in Melbourne, Australia

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