The National Portrait Gallery: (E) - Softcover

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The National Portrait Gallery in London houses a unique collection of personalities and faces from the late Middle Ages to the present day. A national pantheon of the greatest names in British history and culture, the Collection includes kings and queens, courtiers and courtesans, politicians and poets, soldiers and scientists, artists and writers, philosophers and film stars, from Elizabeth I to Stephen Fry, from Shakespeare to Stephen Hawking, portrayed by artists from Holbein to Richard Avedon, from Sir Joshua Reynolds to Paula Rego. Written by Charles Saumarez Smith, formerly Director of the National Portrait Gallery, and with a foreword by the present Director, Sandy Nairne, this book features a selection of over 120 of the finest portraits in the collection, forming a permanent record of the range and diversity of British life over the last 500 years, and a fascinating overview of the people who created it. It also contains an illustrated history of the Gallery, from the founding of the Collection in 1856 to the opening of the Ondaatje Wing in the year 2000.

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