A signing of Joe Lycett's new book, Joe Lycett's Art Hole will be being held in the National Portrait Gallery’s Main Shop ...

A talk on a chosen portrait in the Gallery's Collection, delivered every day at 11.00 and 14.00 ...

At sixteen, Campbell ran away from his home in Scotland and joined a ship heading for the West Indies. He joined the Army and by 1800 had become a brigade major on the island of St Vincent. The ...

Naval Officer; born in Malta and entered the Royal Navy as a cadet in 1879; rose through the ranks, becoming lieutenant in 1890, commander in 1901 and captain in 1905; in May 1916, after sighting two ...

From 1773, a governor-general was selected to govern over Fort William, Kolkata. Increasingly, the governor came to exercise greater authority over all the territories administered by the East India ...

Diana (née Bridgeman), Lady Abdy (1907-1967), Fashion leader; wife of Sir Robert Henry Abdy; daughter of 5th Earl of Bradford. 15 Portraits Hariot (née Alston), Lady Abdy (1819-1877), Wife of Sir ...

After his Grand Tour, Robert Adam set up in London as an architect in 1758 with his younger brothers. For the next thirty years his neo-classical designs, his en-suite planning, and his attention to ...

Swimmer. Born in Brighton, Gleitze set many records for endurance in swimming, she set the British record for swimming for 46 hours (1932). She was the first British woman to swim the English Channel ...

This is one of a pair of portraits (see also NPG 7052) by Iranian-born artist and film-maker Shirin Neshat. Neshat took a series of photographs before selecting two, onto which she has hand inscribed ...

When did you first start taking photographs? I started taking pictures after my dad bought me an Ilford Sportsman 35mm camera for my fourteenth birthday in 1959, though I had already been smitten with ...

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 ...

Painter, printmaker and designer, best known for the compelling realism of his portraits. He learnt painting from his father, Hans Holbein the Elder, and worked in Basle, Switzerland, before moving to ...