| 2009 displays |
| F.W.H. Myers by Eveleen Myers |
16 March - 6 September 2009 |
| Frank Auerbach: Four Portraits of Catherine Lampert |
14 March - 6 September 2009 |
| Portraits of Astronomers |
21 March - 16 August 2009 |
| Stephen Spender |
13 January - 5 July 2009 |
| Charles Darwin and the Origin of Species |
19 January - 30 June 2009 |
| Faces of Poetry: Contemporary Photographs |
24 January - 21 June 2009 |
| Jillian Edelstein: In Focus |
14 February - 19 April 2009 |
| 2008 displays |
|
Henry VIII Remembered
|
20 December 2008 - 12 July 2009 |
| Shakespeare and his Circle |
4 October 2008 - 1 July 2009 |
| Iconic Images: The Vanity Fair Anniversary Book |
20 October 2008 - 1 April 2009 |
| William Ewart Gladstone |
1 September 2008 - 29 March 2009 |
| Edwardian Stage and Society: Sketches by R. G Mathews |
2 September 2008 - 22 March 2009 |
| Queen Victoria's Children |
2 September 2008 - 15 March 2009 |
| Duncan Grant (1885-1978) |
12 July 2008 - 15 March 2009 |
| Pietro Annigoni: Princess Margaret |
13 September 2008 - 8 March 2009 |
| Quiz: Sketches and cartoons by Powy Evans |
4 October 2008 - 1 March 2009 |
| Performance |
29 September 2008 - 1 March 2009 |
| Champions: Portraits by Anderson & Low |
30 October 2008 - 8 March 2009 |
| Recent commission: Zaha Hadid |
30 September 2008 - 11 January 2009 |
| Sporting Lives: Contemporary Portraits of Athletes and Olympians |
12 July 2008 - 11 January 2009 |
| War Poets |
26 July 2008 - 11 January 2009 |
| People of Today: Faces of Wales |
1 December 2008 - 5 January 2009 |
Bern Schwartz
|
19 July 2008 - 4 January 2009 |
Charles I: King and Martyr
|
19 July - 14 December 2008 |
| Painting the Boy King |
24 May - 7 December 2008 |
| Ellen Terry |
7 June - 9 November 2008 |
| Jason Brooks: Paul Nurse and Other Works |
24 May - 26 October 2008 |
| Eamonn McCabe: Artists and their Studios |
16 June - 19 October 2008 |
| Recent commission: Johnson Beharry |
Until September 2008 |
| Athletes & Olympians |
20 March - 28 September 2008 |
| Want to see more of me?: Donald MacLellan |
25 April - 21 September 2008
|
| Fashion Portraits: recent acquisitions |
Until 21 September 2008 |
| Anthony Caro: Portraits |
20 March - 7 September 2008 |
Recent acquisition: John Donne
|
Until September 2008 |
| Mary, Queen of Scots |
Until September 2008 |
| Men of the Day: Caricatures from Vanity Fair |
Until 31 August 2008 |
| Victorian Women Historians |
13 March - 31 August 2008 |
| Recent acquisition: Sir George Rooke |
Until July 2008 |
| The Search for the Source of the Nile |
28 January - 27 July 2008 |
| Jazz In London: Walter Hanlon |
21 January - 20 July 2008 |
| Recent acquisition: John Collier: An artist at work |
30 March - 19 July 2008 |
| Yousuf Karsh |
15 January - 6 July 2008 |
| Modern Muses by Bryan Adams |
13 March - 15 June 2008 |
| Underexposed |
1 April - 8 June 2008 |
| 2007 displays |
| John Kay: Portraits of Curious Characters |
15 December 2007 - 13 July 2008 |
| Portrait of an Artist |
December 2007 - June 2008 |
| The Artist's Process |
4 December 2007 - 1 June 2008 |
| Shutting Up Shop |
5 November 2007 - 4 May 2008 |
| Born 1947 - Camera Press at 60 |
30 October 2007 - 20 April 2008 |
| Private View |
24 September 2007 - 16 March 2008 |
| Lives and Letters |
15 September 2007 - 9 March 2008 |
| Joseph Conrad |
28 September 2007 - 12 February 2008 |
| Alexandra of Denmark |
28 September 2007 - 13 January 2008 |
| George Augustus Sala |
28 September 2007 - 13 January 2008 |
| Captain Scott's Last Expedition: Photographs by Herbert George Ponting |
September 2007 - February 2008 |
| W.H. Auden |
28 July 2007 - 20 January 2008 |
| Diana, Princess of Wales |
14 July 2007 - 13 January 2008 |
| Making History: Printed Portraiture in Tudor and Stuart Britain |
7 July - 9 December 2007 |
| Sir Leslie Stephen |
5 April - 9 December 2007 |
| Devotional |
16 June - 25 November 2007 |
| 21st Century Portraits |
16 July - 28 October 2007 |
| In the Making: Fashion and Advertising |
2 July - 14 October 2007 |
| Dadabhai Naoroji |
March - September 2007 |
| Maurice and Edward Detmold |
March - September 2007 |
| Caricatures by Barry Fantoni |
23 June - 20 September 2007 |
| John Linnell: Portraits |
24 March - 9 September 2007 |
| Victorian Photographs by Elliott and Fry |
20 January - 23 September 2007 |
| Blair at War: Photographs by Nick Danziger |
24 February - 15 July 2007 |
| Clear Vision: Brockhurst, Frampton and Kelly |
January - 11 July 2007 |
| Thomas Frye's Fancy Heads |
9 December 2006 - 1 July 2007 |
| Walter Benington: Pictorial Portraits |
9 December 2006 - 17 June 2007 |
| Women Writers |
9 December 2006 - 17 June 2007 |
| Different Worlds: Contemporary Responses to Migration |
5 March - 17 June 2007 |
| Faith and Church: Portraits by Don McCullin |
3 February 2007 - 13 May 2007 |
| Individuals: 20 portraits from the Gap Collection |
12 February 2007 - 28 May 2007 |
| Jim Dine - The Artist's Face |
16 December 2006 - 10 June 2007 |
| 2006 displays |
| Photographs 1965-2006 |
28 October 2006 - 8 April 2007 |
| Chartist Portraits |
5 August 2006 - 22 March 2007 |
| Pet Shop Boys |
30 October 2006 - 4 March 2007 |
| Sir Benjamin Stone's Parliamentary Pictures |
5 August 2006 - 14 January 2007 |
| John Gay |
29 July - 3 December 2006 |
| Pulling Faces |
24 June - 3 December 2006 |
| Portraits on Paper |
29 July - 3 December 2006 |
| The Beatles on the Balcony |
5 July - 22 October 2006 |
| First Showing |
11 February - 17 September 2006 |
| Faces of Wales |
8 May - 17 September 2006 |
| A Picture of Health: Portraits by Julia Fullerton-Batten |
6 June - 17 September 2006 |
| Benjamin's Britain |
13 June - 10 September 2006 |
| Fergus Greer: Photographer in Focus |
7 March - 10 September 2006 |
| The Face of Monarchy |
11 February - 6 September 2006 |
| Royal Court Theatre |
25 January - 2 July 2006 |
| Harley Granville-Barker |
28 January - 3 August 2006 |
| Lillah McCarthy |
28 January - 3 August 2006 |
| Born in 1856 |
24 January - 3 August 2006 |
| The Royal Ballet at 75 |
14 January -23 July 2006 |
| Andy Warhol: 10 Portraits of Jews of the 20th Century |
24 January - 2 July 2006 |
| Most people are other people |
28 January - 11 June 2006 |
| Commissioning Photographs: 1917-1970 |
23 January - 4 June 2006 |
| Chinese Connections |
27 January - 28 March 2006 |
| 2005 displays |
| Charles Conder |
From 10 September 2005 |
| Sir George Scharf |
17 December 2005 - 18 June 2006 |
| Sir Edward Burne-Jones |
September 2005 - June 2006 |
| Heads of Government: Photographs by David Partner |
18 October 2005 - 5 March 2006 |
| Sir Henry Irving |
10 September 2005 - 29 January 2006 |
| Popular Prints of Victoria and Albert |
10 September 2005 - 29 January 2006 |
| A Question of Identity: Self-Portrait Photographs 1850-2000 |
20 September 2005 - 29 January 2006 |
| New Photographic Acquisitions |
28 November 2005 - 26 January 2006 |
| Cornel Lucas: Shooting Stars |
27 July 2005 - 22 January 2006 |
| Portraits of John Nash |
18 June 2005 - 8 January 2006 |
| Twentieth Century Printmakers |
18 June 2005 - 8 January 2006 |
| Samuel Beckett |
18 June 2005 - 8 January 2006 |
| Gunpowder, Treason and Plot |
17 September - 18 December 2005 |
| Nelson: Before and After Trafalgar |
2 July - 11 December 2005 |
| 25 Years of i-D |
3 October - 29 November 2005 |
| Derry Moore Photographs |
6 April - 16 October 2005 |
| Cameroon - London |
8 July - 16 October 2005 |
| Defying Distance |
14 June - 25 September 2005 |
| Recent commissions and acquisitions |
20 July - 25 September 2005 |
| Bloomsbury and Beyond |
31 May - 19 September 2005 |
| George Moore |
June - September 2005 |
| Punch's Artists |
June - September 2005 |
| Frida Kahlo: Portraits of an Icon |
3 February - 24 July 2005 |
| Harry Borden on Business |
1 April - 3 July 2005 |
| One hundred years ago |
8 February - 15 June 1905 |
| Our Journeys Our Stories |
29 April - 10 June 2005 |
| Goddesses and Others |
17 January - 30 May 2005 |
| Jane Bown |
8 February - 28 April 2005 |
| 2004 displays |
| Robert Baden-Powell |
18 December 2004 - January 2006 |
| Victorian Women by Walery |
18 December 2004 - 4 September 2005 |
| Silhouettes |
11 September 2004 - 26 June 2005 |
| Juliet Pannett: Chronicler of her Times |
8 December 2004 - 15 June 2005 |
| Anna May Wong: Frosted Yellow Willows |
8 December 2004 - 15 June 2005 |
| Paul Tanqueray: Young in the Twenties |
8 December 2004 - 15 June 2005 |
| Photographs by Horace Ové |
2 October 2004 - 4 April 2005 |
| A Blueprint for Life |
17 September 2004 - 30 March 2005 |
| G.F. Watts by His Contemporaries |
14 October 2004 - 9 January 2005 |
| Margery Allingham 1904 - 1966 |
27 May 2004 - 6 February 2005 |
| Vicky: Cartoons from the 1960s and 1970s |
18 September 2004 - 23 January 2005 |
| The Legal Face |
3 August 2004 - 6 January 2005 |
| Norman Parkinson: Portraits in Fashion |
1 September 2004 - 16 January 2005 |
| Olympians and Paralympians |
13 June - 17 December 2004 |
| In Dahomey: Photographs by Cavendish Morton |
10 July - 12 December 2004 |
| Disraeli and Gladstone in Vanity Fair |
8 July - 12 December 2004 |
| Portraits and Prints of Alphonse Legros |
8 July - 12 December 2004 |
| Seizing an Instant: Photographs by Roger Mayne |
12 June - 5 December 2004 |
| Theodore de Mayerne |
27 May - 26 September 2004 |
| James Hunkin: Faces of Science |
20 April - 15 September 2004 |
| Bill Brandt: Portraits |
20 March - 5 September 2004 |
| Gaiety Girls |
5 April - 31 August 2004 |
| Lucian Freud in the Studio |
30 March - 1 August 2004 |
| Mario Testino: New Acquisitions |
24 January - 13 June 2004 |
| 2003 displays |
| Cecil Beaton Drawings |
12 December 2003 - 8 June 2004 |
| Heroes and Villains: Scarfe at the National Portrait Gallery |
30 September 2003 - 4 April 2004 |
| Designer Faces |
20 September 2003 - 25 March 2004 |
| Terry O'Neill: Celebrity |
6 September 2003 - 14 March 2004 |
| DJs by Chris Lopez |
7 July - 28 September 2003 |
| William Hazlitt's Spirit of the Age |
20 May - 2 November 2003 |
| Lichfield: The Early Years |
3 May - 31 August 2003 |
| Baron Studios: Portraits of the 1950s |
5 April - 28 September 2003 |
| Brother and Sister: the Sassoons |
5 April - 28 September 2003 |
| Albert Mansbridge and the WEA |
5 April - 28 September 2003 |
| Restoration lives: Samuel Pepys and his circle |
31 March - 26 October 2003 |
| The Burlington Magazine centenary |
26 March - |
| British Blondes |
3 March - 6 July 2003 |
| Iconic women in the Press |
6 February - 26 May 2003 |
| Five Double portraits: New work by David Hockney |
16 January - 29 June 2003 |
| 2002 displays |
| Authors of Murder: Photographs by Nicola Kurtz |
4 November 2002 - February 2003 |
| Local Heroes |
26 October 2002 - 30 March 2003 |
| Blow Up: Sixties Photography Exposed |
21 September 2002 - 27 April 2003 |
| Bassano's Photographs of the Year 1920 |
14 September 2002 - 23 March 2003 |
| Sir Kenneth Macmillan |
14 September 2002 - 23 March 2003 |
| Before Windrush: Images of Black and Asian Figures |
14 September 2002 - 23 March 2003 |
| In Close Up: Humphrey Spender |
14 September 2002 - 23 March 2003 |
| The Art Establishment: Photographs by Lucy Dickens |
10 September 2002 - 2 February 2003 |
| Mary, Queen of Scots: Fact and Fiction |
24 August 2002 - 5 May 2003 |
| In the Picture |
- 20 October 2003 |
| She-Bop |
8 July - 3 November 2003 |
| The Queen's Golden Jubilee |
1 June 2002 - 9 February 2003 |
| Anthony Buckley |
20 April - 18 September 2002 |
| Managing Partners |
5 March - 30 June 2002 |
| Howard Coster |
25 February - 19 June 2002 |
| The Contenders: Sporting Portraits by Anderson & Low |
25 February - 7 July 2002 |
| Changing Impressions |
5 January - 19 May 2002 |
| 2001 displays |
| Reviewers Revealed: Celebrating the TLS Centenary |
7 November 2001 - 4 March 2002 |
| Contemporary Women Artists |
22 October 2001 - 24 February 2002 |
| Sixties Style: Ward, Wharton and Seymour |
17 October 2001 - 14 April 2002 |
| Winifred Radford |
17 October 2001 - 6 May 2002 |
| Indian Princes |
17 October 2001 - 6 May 2002 |
| Dancers |
17 October 2001 - 6 May 2002 |
| Photographs by Pamela Chandler |
13 April 2001 - 6 May 2002 |
| In the City: Edward Barber |
29 August 2001 - 3 March 2002 |
| The Duke of Wellington: Sketches from a Military Life |
14 July 2001 - 2 January 2002 |
| Royal Society of Portrait Painters |
7 July - 2 September 2001 |
| Fergus Greer: Directors |
2 July - 21 October 2001 |
| The Spanish Civil War |
13 April - 9 October 2001 |
| Prominent Women: Photographs by Magnus and Lewinski |
17 March - 18 September 2001 |
| Portraits in Mind: 100 Years of British Pyschology |
9 May - 27 August 2001 |
| The Festival of Britain |
13 April - 14 October 2001 |
| Strip |
12 April - 1 July 2001 |
| Cartoons and Caricatures |
17 March - 18 September 2001 |
| Mike McCartney: 60s Photographs |
17 March - 18 September 2001 |
| 20th Century Recent Acquisitions |
10 March - 1 July 2001 |
| Gemma Levine: Portrait Photographer |
22 January - 8 April 2001 |
| Portraits in Profile: The Dighton Family |
6 January - 8 July 2001 |
