Join us for a discussion with previous winners of the Portrait Award, Ishbel Myerscough and Stuart Pearson Wright, as they talk about their careers in… ...

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 ...

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Membership has changed. We’ve curated a new style of event that will help you experience our reimagined Gallery in creative and stimulating new ways, and socialise ...

Find out what's on in our current and upcoming exhibitions, displays, events, programmes, workshops and more.

Born in Scotland, Henry Raeburn was first apprenticed to a goldsmith, but turned to painting miniatures, an art in which he was apparently self-taught. In around 1780 Raeburn married Ann Leslie, a ...

Become more familiar with the world's largest collection of Tudor and Elizabethan paintings by playing our matching pairs game Explore this portrait of Edward VI, in which he is shown in distorted ...

Lord Chelmsford was appointed commander of British forces in South Africa in 1878. The following year he led the British invasion of Zululand. The first engagement of the campaign was the Zulu rout of ...

Trained in the law, Thomas Parker was called to the Bar in 1691 and entered Parliament in 1705. He served as Lord Chief Justice from 1710 to 1717 and as Lord Chancellor from 1718 until suspicions of ...

Sir William Reynolds-Stephens was a sculptor, decorative artist and painter. Born of British parents, he was educated in Germany and England and then at the Royal Academy Schools in London from 1884 ...