Events and exhibitions calendar

Step back through time with a free highlights tour exploring our Collection and building.

Step back through time with a free highlights tour exploring our Collection and building.

Learn more about this self-portrait by Allan Ramsay.

Step back through time with a free highlights tour exploring our Collection and building.

Step back through time with a free highlights tour exploring our Collection and building.

Learn more about this portrait of John Keats.

Step back through time with a free highlights tour exploring our Collection and building.

Step back through time with a free highlights tour exploring our Collection and building.

Join our free monthly session for Under 5s. Explore the gallery and the collection with your family through stories, songs and making activities.

Learn more about this portrait of Elsa Schiaparelli by Man Ray.

Step back through time with a free highlights tour exploring our Collection and building.

Join us for a Members’ Early Morning View of David Hockney: Drawing from Life and Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize 2023

Step back through time with a free highlights tour exploring our Collection and building.

A talk on a chosen portrait in the Gallery's Collection.

Lecture from author Tomiwa Owolade, introducing his recent book This is Not America: Why Black Lives in Britain Matter.

Step back through time with a free highlights tour exploring our Collection and building.

Step back through time with a free highlights tour exploring our Collection and building.

Learn more about this portrait of Sarah Siddons.

Step back through time with a free highlights tour exploring our Collection and building.

Step back through time with a free highlights tour exploring our Collection and building.

A talk on a chosen portrait in the Gallery's Collection.

Step back through time with a free highlights tour exploring our Collection and building.

Step back through time with a free highlights tour exploring our Collection and building.

Learn more about this portrait of Emma Hamilton by George Romney.

Step back through time with a free highlights tour exploring our Collection and building.

Create your own work in the Gallery in this artist-led workshop.

Join conservator Polly Saltmarsh for a talk revealing the processes behind her conservation of some of the Gallery’s most prized Tudor portraits.

Ring in the New Year with unique dining experiences at the National Portrait Gallery

Join us for a Members’ Late to view David Hockney: Drawing from Life and Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize 2023

Lecture with Rosie Broadley, Senior Curator 20th Century Collections.

A two-hour workshop inspired by the themes of this year’s Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize, uncovering the secrets of taking better portraits on your smartphone.

Join our free monthly session for Under 5s. Explore the gallery and the collection with your family through stories, songs and making activities.

This talk will examine the impact that historic artists have had on Hockney’s graphic portraits, particularly the work of Rembrandt, Ingres and Picasso

Led by a figurative artist, join our monthly evening life drawing class held in the Ondaatje Wing Lecture Theatre.

Develop your self-portraiture skills with Portrait prize-winning artist, Charlie Schaffer, in this two-day workshop inspired by our exhibition, David Hockney: Drawing from Life.

In celebration of Burns Night join this free Gallery talk inspired by the life, work and legacy of poet Robert Burns

Led by artist Alison Kusner, create your own work in the Gallery and be inspired by the world’s largest collection of portraits

Lecture from celebrated novelist Philippa Gregory, introducing her new book, Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History

Join Windrush 75: Portraits of a Pioneering Generation portraitist Shannon Bono to learn how to capture portraits of your own elders in this workshop.

Join us for an extended in person Members’ Afternoon preview of the exhibition, The Time is Always Now: Artists Reframe the Black Figure.

Join Rose Issa in conversation with this year’s In Focus Photographer for the Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize, Hassan Hajjaj.

Join us for an extended in person Members’ Afternoon preview of the exhibition Francesca Woodman and Julia Margaret Cameron: Portraits to Dream In.

Join us for a Members' Early Morning View of The Time is Always Now: Artists Reframe the Black Figure and Francesca Woodman and Julia Margaret Cameron: Portraits to Dream In

Join us for a Members’ Late to view The Time is Always Now: Artists Reframe the Black Figure and Francesca Woodman and Julia Margaret Cameron: Portraits to Dream In