The National Portrait Gallery
- ISBN-10
- 185514199X
- ISBN-13
- 9781855141995
- Pages
- 237
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1997
- Publisher
- National Portrait Gallery Publications
- Authors
- National Portrait Gallery, Charles Saumarez Smith
Description
The National Portrait Gallery's collection of portraits of British men and women constitutes a complete survey of both historical and contemporary personalities. A national pantheon of great figures - from King Henry VIII to David Bowie - portrayed by great artists - from Holbein to Avedon - the Gallery's collection includes likenesses of political, artistic and scientific characters, including Mary, Queen of Scots, William Shakespeare, Lord Byron, James Joyce, Winston Churchill, Laurence Olivier, Barbara Hepworth and Salman Rushdie.
