#national portrait gallery

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Liam's beautiful face really belongs in a museum

Spotted in London: Poster for The Face Magazine exhibition in The National Portrait Gallery. Of course they chose Liam as the poster boy.

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Edward Petre Novello (1813-1836) "Clara Novello" (1833) Oil on canvas Located in the National Portrait Gallery, London, England

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How the National Portrait Gallery fumbled the exhibition of a queer artist’s tribute to their dead partner.

full article at Out:

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National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC

photo: David Castenson

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there’s something quite perfect about these two being the images of Louis and Harry displayed at The National Portrait Gallery..

Louis photographed by Phil Sharp, 2017 (displayed 2018)

Harry photographed by Tyler Mitchell, 2020 (on display 2024)

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Catherine, Princess of Wales at the National Portrait Gallery on February 04, 2025 in London, England. The Princess joined children to kick off a new initiative from The Royal Foundation Centre for Early Childhood, focused on helping young children develop essential social and emotional skills.

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The Princess of Wales joins a group of four and five-year-old school children at the National Portrait Gallery to launch a new project from The Royal Foundation Centre for Early Childhood called The Bobeam Tree Trail, an Interactive Trail to support Social And Emotional Development in under fives in London, England -February 4th 2025.

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Cartoonist Jack Monk with his supervisor. 1949. Source.

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Conversation Piece at the Royal Lodge, Windsor

Artist: Sir James Gunn (Scottish, 1893-1964)

Date: c. 1950

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: National Portrait Gallery, United Kingdom

Description

The portrait shows King George VI, Queen Elizabeth, Princess Elizabeth (later Queen Elizabeth II), and her sister Princess Margaret. Throughout the Second World War, the Royal Family remained in London, and when Buckingham Palace received a direct hit the queen said, ‘now we can look the East End in the face’. Determination to share in the fate of the nation increased the monarchy’s popularity. In this post-war portrait, the informality of the presentation, for which the Queen was responsible, was entirely new. The setting is Royal Lodge, where the family’s life was informal. They are shown together at tea-time, a recognisable and very British occasion. Gunn, who had been chosen by the King and Queen for the commission, recalled the difficulty of placing the corgi, moving it about on the canvas in a paper cut-out. Commissioned to hang in a public collection, the work’s domestic character demonstrates changes in perceptions of the monarchy.

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recently a critic accused the national portrait gallery of erasing the gay identity and aids-related history of a sculpture felix gonzalez-torres named after his partner. I went to the show and found that was inaccurate and misleading. the installation makes connections between gonzalez-torres and walt whitman, including a queer portraiture show they were both in *at the national portrait gallery*; and that they were both exemplars of queer caregiving. [whitman nursed civil war soldiers *in the building* that's now the smithsonian.]

image: installation view of an 1891 portrait by thomas eakins of "queer ancestor" walt whitman; a 1993 felix gonzalez-torres lightstring, "untitled" (leaves of grass) [which whitman edited in the building]; and "untitled" (portrait of ross in l.a.), a 1991 candy pour named for felix's partner ross laycock, who died of aids-related illness in 1991. in the next gallery beyond is "untitled" (portrait of dad), also 1991, and named for felix's father, who also died that year.

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at the national portrait gallery last night. she dedicated her dj set to a friend who passed away and her ex was there.

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Peter Lely (1618-1680) "Self Portrait" (c. 1660) Oil on canvas Located in the National Portrait Gallery, London, England Sir Peter Lely (1618-1680) was a painter of Dutch origin whose career was nearly all spent in England, where he became the dominant portrait painter to the court. He became a naturalized British subject and was knighted in 1679.

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National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC

photo: David Castenson

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spot Harry’s Vogue cover photo on display in Krystle’s video from London’s National Portrait Gallery! 16/11/24

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Catherine, Princess of Wales, departs after joining a group of four and five-year-old school children at The National Portrait Gallery on February 04, 2025 in London, England. The Princess joined the children to kick off a new initiative from The Royal Foundation Centre for Early Childhood, focused on helping young children develop essential social and emotional skills. 

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The Princess of Wales joins a group of four and five-year-old school children at the National Portrait Gallery to launch a new project from The Royal Foundation Centre for Early Childhood called The Bobeam Tree Trail, an Interactive Trail to support Social And Emotional Development in under fives in London, England -February 4th 2025.