NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY
National Portrait Gallery The National Portrait Gallery re-opened in June 2023 following a three-year refurbishment; a favourite of mine; and it's free. The collection has over 200,000 images, many can be seen on their website. What follows are my personal highlights; most sitters portrayed here feature elsewhere in this blog. Most of the images below are downloaded from the National Portrait Gallery's brilliant archive and can be used 'in non-commercial projects including blogs'. Where restrictions forbid their use you can still click on the names to view the portraits online - or, better still, visit the gallery. I've numbered t he rooms in which the pictures are exhibited. Rooms 1-18 are on the 3rd floor; 19-28 the 2nd; 29-32 the 1st; 33 floor 0. Apart from a couple of notable exceptions, all are current (December 2023) exhibits. You can walk in anytime but i t's ...