The Representation of the People Act 1928 grants women the same rights to vote as men. Building on reform of 1918, this Act lowered the voting age for women from 30 to 21, and removed the ownership of ...

In this special event to celebrate London Open House 2024, the Gallery welcomes Oki to represent his vision for the future Join our life drawing class, led by Morag Caister, an exhibiting artist in ...

Discover the architecture of the National Portrait Gallery, originally designed in 1896 by Ewan Christian and now transformed by Jamie Fobert Architects ...

Tudor paintings by Hans Holbein the Younger and contemporary photography by Hiroshi Sugimoto meet in the National Portrait Gallery’s first exhibition of historic portraiture since reopening, ...

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The exhibition begins by introducing the fashionable Bluestocking Circle and exploring how a tight-knit group of women became a model for rational 'Enlightenment' forms of sociability. The ...

Step back through time with a free highlights tour exploring our Collection and building. Tours run every day at 12.00 and 15.00, and last for about 45 minutes. Spaces are limited, so please turn up ...

The Gallery is home to the most extensive collection of portraits in the world. Search over 220,000 works, from the 8th century to the present day. A new BBC Radio 4 series to mark our reopening. Over ...

The Reference Collection is held in the Heinz Archive and Library and contains more than 80,000 portraits of important and lesser known figures in British history. The majority of these portraits are ...

Lucas Horenbout, or Hornebolte, was a Flemish artist who moved to England in the mid-1520s and worked there as King's Painter and court miniaturist to King Henry VIII from 1525 until his death. He was ...

Ojih Odutola is, in Smith’s words, the ‘central light in a thrilling new generation of black artists.’ In her portrait of Smith she has included a range of subtle details. Shapes and shadows evoke ...

This painting shows James on screen in Hancock's Half Hour and includes collage elements. The world comes to the brink of nuclear war with the Cuban Missile Crisis. In response to the USA's nuclear ...