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Join us as Carys Lewis, our Archivist, delves into the holdings relating to Lucian Freud spanning his whole life. 

Join us for an extended in person Members’ Afternoon Preview of the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2021.

COMING HOME sees the Gallery sending portraits of iconic individuals to places they are closely associated with.

The National Portrait Gallery’s exquisite ‘Tudors to Windsors’ touring exhibition comes to the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich. This unique collection of British royal portraits gives visitors a rare opportunity to meet these famous historical and contemporary personalities face to face

COMING HOME sees the Gallery sending portraits of iconic individuals to places they are closely associated with.

The Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2016 is the leading international competition, open to all, which celebrates and promotes the very best in contemporary portrait photography from around the world.

Suspended from the Whitechapel Idea Store (local library), the large scale letters spelling out Bangla will be visible from the road covered in brightly coloured saree fabric and LED lights. Walking underneath the structure you can look up to see embroidered murals revealing some of the research produced by the Citizen Researchers and artist Ruhul Abdin, including the original sketches by Biman Mullick for the first stamps of new nation Bangladesh in 1971. It is a celebration of the identity, people and stories that make up the diverse Bangladeshi community in Tower Hamlets.

Beyond Bloomsbury: Life, Love and Legacy explores the lives and works of an extraordinary group of writers, artists and thinkers, known as the Bloomsbury Group. Key figures include the great writer and pioneer of feminist thought Virginia Woolf, her sister the painter Vanessa Bell, and the circle of friends that gathered around these young women and became well-known as the ‘Bloomsbury Group’, named after the area of London where they lived in the first decades of the twentieth-century.

The Tudors: Passion, Power and Politics presents some of the most familiar figures from English history and instantly recognisable in the portraits that have preserved their likenesses for five hundred years, encompassing some of the most famous portraits in the National Portrait Gallery Collection. 

Beyond Bloomsbury: Life, Love and Legacy explores the lives and works of an extraordinary group of writers, artists and thinkers, known as the Bloomsbury Group. Key figures include the great writer and pioneer of feminist thought Virginia Woolf, her sister the painter Vanessa Bell, and the circle of friends that gathered around these young women and became well-known as the ‘Bloomsbury Group’, named after the area of London where they lived in the first decades of the twentieth-century.

The Tudors: Passion, Power and Politics presents some of the most familiar figures from English history and instantly recognisable in the portraits that have preserved their likenesses for five hundred years, encompassing some of the most famous portraits in the National Portrait Gallery Collection. 

COMING HOME sees the Gallery sending portraits of iconic individuals to places they are closely associated with.

For Black History Month we have invited the next generation of creatives, thinkers and cultural leaders to reflect on the sitters in our Collection. We'll be sharing new content here throughout October.