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Reay Primary School – Marcus Rashford Portraits

Schools Programmes Manager Francesca Laws interviewed year 2 children with their teacher Mrs David-Jekyll at Reay Primary School in Lambeth to find out about their portrait project to celebrate footballer and campaigner Marcus Rashford. …

By National Portrait Gallery,

15 December 2020

Recognise Bangla Desh rally poster. Courtesy of Ansar Ahmed Ullah, Swadhinata Trust

Citizen UK - Tower Hamlets

Participation Manager Emily Stone provides an update on an exciting collaboration with Tower Hamlets Local History Library & Archives to commemorate 50 years of Bangladesh Independence…

By National Portrait Gallery,

03 December 2020

The decant of the displayed National Collection for Inspiring People

The Gallery is pleased to report that the decant of displayed works has now been successfully completed. The Gallery has not undertaken such a huge move since portraits were evacuated to Buckinghamshire during the Second World War. …

By Edward Purvis, Head of Collections Services

03 December 2020

Star Wars and the National Portrait Gallery

The Gallery has worked with Disney+ on a special display, which we hope will introduce new audiences to our Collection. The display at The Unit in the West End marks the launch of the second season of Lucasfilm’s The Mandalorian and will include images from the Gallery’s Collection and a painting entitled ‘The Mandalorian and the Child’…

By National Portrait Gallery,

29 October 2020

In Conversation with Chaz Guest

American artist Chaz Guest recently caught up with our Senior Contemporary Curator Sarah Howgate.…

By National Portrait Gallery,

22 October 2020

Recreation of Ira Aldridge after James Northcote, circa 1826 Private Collection; on loan to the National Portrait Gallery, London

Looking to the Collection: Activists and Activism
By Sophie Williams

For this year’s UK Black History Month, in a time in which we’ve seen the focus of the world turned towards racial justice and activism in a way that we’ve never quite seen before, I was invited by the National Portrait Gallery to cast an eye on the activists in their Collection, and to highlight some of the stories and lives of the sitters that I think we can learn from today as we fight for racial equality for all. …

By National Portrait Gallery,

15 October 2020