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This special display exploring Elizabeth’s life and portraits has been developed in partnership with the National Trust as part of the year of events exploring ‘Women and Power’.

The exhibition presents an overview of the campaign for Votes for Women from the late 19th century until 1918. Photographs, prints, drawings and paintings from the Gallery’s collection will be displayed with some of the items from each property’s own collection which brings portraiture and places together to share stories that neither partner can tell as fully on their own.

This exhibition of unclothed portraits from the National Portrait Gallery Collection invites questions about identity and gender, the real and ideal. It includes portraits of exposed sitters from Nell Gwyn to Naomi Campbell, Gilbert and George to John Lennon and Yoko Ono.

The BP Portrait Award is the most prestigious international exhibition of contemporary portrait painting.

The BP Portrait Award is the most prestigious international exhibition of contemporary portrait painting.