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- At the centre is Philip Henry Stanhope, 4th Earl Stanhope, with his supporters on either side, Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay (to Stanhope's left) and Thomas Carlyle (to Stanhope's right). It was Stanhope who, in 1846 as a Member of Parliament (MP), first proposed the idea of a National Portrait Gallery.
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It was Stanhope who, in 1846 as a Member of Parliament (MP), first proposed the idea of a National Portrait Gallery. It was not until his third attempt, in 1856, this time from the House of Lords, that the proposal was accepted.
The Gallery was founded in 1856 with the aim of collecting portraits of ‘the most eminent persons in British history’. The original Trustees agreed ‘to look at the celebrity of the person represented rather than the merit of the artist’ but also took the view that achievement would sometimes be tempered by human fallibility accepting ...
May 20, 2024 · The gallery was founded by an act of Parliament in 1856 and was housed at a number of locations until its present home, an Italian Renaissance -style building designed by Ewan Christian, opened in 1895/96. The building was extended in 1933 and in 2000, and a number of galleries were renovated throughout the 1980s and ’90s and in the 2020s.
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- Portraits of Richard III. Richard III was the last Yorkist king of England. He’s known as the evil, ambitious king who murdered the sons of Edward IV, the two princes in the tower, and seized the crown.
- Portrait of Henry VII. Born in Wales, Henry Tudor had a tenuous claim to the throne through his mother, the scheming Margaret Beaufort. But, skillful and shrewd, Henry defeated Richard III in the Battle of Bosworth in 1485 and seized the crown.
- Holbein Portrait of Henry VIII. There are a raft of Tudor portraits in Room 1. At that time, standalone portraiture was a hugely popular art form. Over time, the scale and imagery of the portraits became quite ambitious.
- Six Queens: Henry VIII’s Wives. The museum has portraits of 4 of the 6 wives of Henry VII. You remember the saying, right? “Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived.”
The National Portrait Gallery has revealed the first images of proposed designs by Jamie Fobert Architects, working in partnership with Purcell, for the Gallery’s biggest ever development since the building in St Martin’s Place, London opened in 1896.
Jul 5, 2018 · The National Portrait Gallery, the first such gallery of its kind when it was formally established on 2 December 1856, is the national museum responsible for celebrating the leading figures in British history and the history of British Portraiture.
Jun 21, 2023 · The Glossary takes a first look at the National Portrait Gallery. Following a three-year closure for renovation , the newly reopened National Portrait Gallery has never looked better. Founded in 1856, the gallery is home to the most extensive collection of portraits in the world, from painting and drawings to photographs.
