The National Lottery Heritage Fund
The National Lottery Heritage Fund have been supporting heritage projects in the UK since 1994. Using money raised by The National Lottery, the Heritage Fund inspire, lead and resource the UK’s heritage to create positive and lasting change for people and communities, now and in the future. From great museums and historic buildings to local parks, or recording and celebrating traditions and customs, Heritage Fund grants open up the nation's heritage for everyone to enjoy.
The National Lottery Heritage Fund's support has been essential to a number of major projects at the National Portrait Gallery:
- the Ondaatje Wing which opened in May 2000
- the Regency in the Weldon Galleries, opened May 2003
- the complete refurbishment of the Gallery's displays at Bodelwyddan Castle in 2003
- the complete refurbishment of the Gallery's displays at Beningbrough Hall in 2006
The National Lottery Heritage Fund
The National Lottery Heritage Fund has also enabled the Gallery to acquire several portraits of outstanding significance since 1996:
Sir Anthony van Dyck
by Sir Anthony van Dyck
circa 1640
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King Charles II
by Unknown artist
1630
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Horace Walpole
by Sir Joshua Reynolds
circa 1756-1757
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Mary Moser
by George Romney
circa 1770-1771
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Henry Fuseli
by Edward Hodges Baily
1824
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Mary Seacole
by Albert Charles Challen
1869
NPG 6856
Louise Jane Jopling (née Goode, later Rowe)
by Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Bt
1879
NPG 6612
Wallis, Duchess of Windsor
by Gerald Leslie Brockhurst
1939
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