Past exhibitions

Pre-Raphaelite Sisters

17 October 2019 - 26 January 2020

Elizabeth Peyton: Aire and Angels

3 October 2019 - 5 January 2020

Cindy Sherman

27 June - 15 September 2019

Only Human: Martin Parr

7 March - 27 May 2019

Elizabethan Treasures: Miniatures by Hilliard and Oliver

21 February 2019 - 19 May 2019

34,236

Gainsborough's Family Album

22 November 2018 - 3 February 2019

36,221

Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2018

18 October 2018 - 27 January 2019

40,427

Michael Jackson: On the wall

28 June 2018  - 21 October 2018

82,525 

BP Portrait Award 2018

14 June 2018  - 23 September 2018

275,295

Tacita Dean: PORTRAIT

15 March 2018 - 28 May 2018

14,901

Victorian Giants: The Birth of Art Photography

1 March 2018 - 20 May 2018

31,055

Cézanne Portraits

26 October 2017 - 11 February 2018

136,426

Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2017

16 November 2017 -  8 February 2018

 41,823

The Encounter: Drawings from Leonardo to Rembrandt

13 July - 22 October 2017

38,962

BP Portrait Award 2017

22 June - 24 September 2017

234,604

Howard Hodgkin: Absent Friends

23 March - 18 June 2017

35,062

Gillian Wearing and Claude Cahun: Behind the mask, another mask

9 March - 29 May 2017

18,078

Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2016

17 November - 26 February 2017

45,827

Picasso Portraits

6 October - 5 February 2017

136,192

William Eggleston Portraits

21 July - 23 October 2016

56,661

BP Portrait Award 2016

23 June - 4 September 2016

187,347

Vogue 100: A Century of Style

11 February - 22 May 2016

152,290

Russia and the Arts: The Age of Tolstoy and Tchaikovsky

17 March 2015 - 27 June 2016

68,181

Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2015

12 November 2015 - 21 February 2016

53,821

Giacometti: Pure Presence

15 October 2015 - 10 January 2016

Audrey Hepburn: Portraits of an Icon

2 July - 18 October 2015

126,687

BP Portrait Award 2015

18 June - 20 September 2015

329,556

Wellington: Triumphs, Politics and Passions

12 March - 7 June 2015

103,867

Sargent: Portraits of Artists and Friends

12 February - 25 May 2015

123,783

Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2014

13 November - 22 February 2015

54,827

Anarchy & Beauty: William Morris and His Legacy, 1860 – 1960

16 October - 11 January 2015

48,205

Virginia Woolf: Art, Life and Vision

10 July - 26 October 2014

61,826

BP Portrait Award 2014

26 June - 21 September 2014

281,717

The Great War in Portraits

27 February - 15 June 2014

208,219

Bailey’s Stardust

6 February 2013 - 1 June 2014

150,509

Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2013

14 November 2013 - 9 February 2014

63,832

Elizabeth I & Her People

10 October - 5 January 2014

44,069

Laura Knight Portraits

11 July - 13 October 2013

41,208

BP Portrait Award 2013

20 June - 15 September 2013

285,514

George Catlin: American Indian Portraits

7 March - 23 June 2013

120,082

Man Ray Portraits

7 February - 27 May 2013

99,917

Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2012

8 November 2012 - 17 February 2013

65,860

The Lost Prince: The Life and Death of Henry Stuart

18 October 2012 – 13 January 2013

28,735

The Queen: Art and Image

17 May 2012 – 21 October 2012

74,555

BP Portrait Award 2012

21 June 2012 – 23 September 2012

255,982

Lucian Freud Portraits

9 February - 27 May 2012

246,801

Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2011

10 November 2011 - 12 February 2012

75,738

The First Actresses: Nell Gwyn to Sarah Siddons

20 October 2011 - 8 January 2012

23,513

Glamour of the Gods: Hollywood Portraits
Photographs(John Kobal Foundation)

7 July – 23 October 2011

87,248

BP Portrait Award 2011

16 June 2011 – 18 September 2011

341,050

Ida Kar: Bohemian Photographer

10 March 2011 – 19 June 2011

26,768

Hoppé: Society, Studio & Street

17 February 2011 – 30 May 2011

32,917

Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2010

11 November 2010 – 20 February 2011

65,319

Thomas Lawrence

21 October 2010 – 23 January 2011

35,456

Camille Silvy

15 July – 24 October 2010

26,404

BP Portrait Award 2010

24 June – 19 September 2010

280,673

The Indian Portrait

11 March – 20 June 2010

138,894

Irving Penn Portraits

18 February - 6 June 2010

73,305

Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2009

5 November - 14 February 2010

248,083

Beatles to Bowie: the 60s exposed

15 October - 24 January 2010

99,121

Gay Icons

2 July - 18 October 2009

48,216

BP Portrait Award 2009

18 June - 20 September 2009

298,420

Constable Portraits

5 March - 14 June 2009

40,819

Gerhard Richter Portraits

26 February - 31 May 2009

56,465

Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2008

6 November - 15 February 2009

273,236

Annie Leibovitz

16 October - 1 February 2009

142,154

Wyndham Lewis Portraits

3 July - 19 October 2008

39,005

BP Portrait Award 2008

12 June - 14 September 2008

176,378

Vanity Fair Portraits

14 February - 26 May 2008

121,402

Brilliant Women

13 March - 15 June 2008

183,596

The Photographic Portrait Prize 2007

8 November - 24 February 2008

93,829

My Space

20 October - 24 February 2008

35,236

Pop Art Portraits

11 October - 20 January 2008

60,165

Daily Encounters

5 July - 21 October 2007

27,547

BP Portrait Award 2007

14 June - 16 September 2007

195,006

Four Corners

24 March - 5 August 2007

29,980

Face of Fashion

15 February - 28 May 2007

66,213

Between Worlds

8 March - 17 June 2007

128,283

Cherish: Chinese Families in Britain

23 September - 11 March 2007

52,716

The Photographic Portrait Prize 2006

8 November - 18 February 2007

87,872

David Hockney Portraits

12 October - 21 January 2007

151,555

Angus McBean: Portraits

5 July - 22 October 2006

33,647

BP Portrait Award 2006

15 June - 17 September 2006

197,687

Fame!

8 April - 6 August 2006

24,371

Icons and Idols: Commissioning Contemporary Portraits

2 March - 18 June 2006

211,264

Searching for Shakespeare

2 March - 29 May 2006

28,231

Schweppes Photographic Portrait Prize 2005

9 November - 12 February 2006

184,211

Look At Me

24 September - 19 March 2006

65,671

Self-Portrait: Renaissance to Contemporary

20 October - 29 January 2006

63,551

The World's Most Photographed

6 July - 23 October 2005

85,003

BP Portrait Award 2005

15 June - 25 September 2005

187,662

Self Portrait UK

5 April - 22 June 2005

30,353

Family Faces

14 February - 4 September 2005

53,285

Conquering England

9 March - 19 June 2005

102,724

Lee Miller: Portraits

3 February - 30 May 2005

63,182

Schweppes Photographic Portrait Prize 2004

17 November - 20 February 2005

137,993

Inner Picture

23 October - 16 January 2005

11,955

G.F. Watts: Portraits - Fame & Beauty in Victorian Society

14 October - 9 January 2005

23,549

Photographs by Horace Ové

2 October 2004 - 4 April 2005

TBC

Norman Parkinson: Portraits in Fashion

1 September 2004 - 16 January 2005

TBC

Off the Beaten Track

July - 31 October 2004

162,457

BP Portrait Award 2004

17 June - 19 September 2004

182,009

We Are The People

2 March - 20 June 2004

139,971

Cecil Beaton Portraits

5 February - 31 May 2004

127,593

Schweppes Photographic Portrait Prize 2003

5 November - 15 February 2004

140,205

Below Stairs

16 October - 11 January 2004

41,372

Circling the Square

13 September - 28 March 2004

66,207

A Gardener's Labyrinth

25 June - 19 October 2003

143,180

BP Portrait Award 2003

12 June - 21 September 2003

160,198

You Look Beautiful Like That

5 March - 8 June 2003

86,626

Julia Margaret Cameron

6 February - 26 May 2003

56,169

Mad, Bad and Dangerous: The Cult of Lord Byron

20 November - 16 February 2003

76,007

Americans

10 October - 12 January 2003

23,714

John Kobal Photographic Portrait Award 2002

3 September - 3 November 2002

60,711

BP Portrait Award 2002

19 June - 15 September 2002

109,662

George Romney

30 May - 18 August 2002

18,978

Beatrix Potter to Harry Potter: Portraits of Children's Writers

15 May - 26 August 2002

106,722

Saving Faces

27 February - 21 April 2002

82,363

Mario Testino

1 February - 4 June 2002

168,069

John Kobal Photographic Portrait Award 2001

24 October - 24 February 2002

201,425

Painted Ladies: Women at the Court of Charles II

11 October - 6 January 2002

44,009

A Genomic Portrait: John Sulston by Marc Quinn

19 September - 3 February 2002

Mirror Mirror: Self-portraits by Women Artists

12 September - 20 January 2002

66,779

BP Portrait Award 2001

21 June - 16 September 2001

167,791

The Beautiful and the Damned

21 June - 16 September 2001

44,523

Philippe Halsman: A Retrospective

23 May - 2 September 2001

Horst Portraits: 60 Years of Style

1 March - 3 June 2001

42,121

Rollie McKenna: Artists and Writers

1 March - 13 May 2001

88,201

Return to Life

7 February - 20 May 2001

19,513

Painting the Century

26 October - 4 February 2001

78,862

Escape to Eden

5 October - 21 January 2001

53,290

BP Portrait Award 2000

22 June - 1 October 2000

171,808

Polly Borland

25 May - 17 September 2000

Elizabeth Taylor: A Photographic Celebration

15 May - 16 July 2000

79,140

Photographs by Snowdon: A Retrospective

25 February - 4 June 2000

76,798

Princes of Victorian Bohemia: Photographs by David Wilkie Wynfield

28 January - 14 May 2000

137,416

Faces of the Century

22 October 1999 - 30 January 2000