The National Portrait Gallery (London, United Kingdom) opens the first exhibition to explore art and theatre in eighteenth-century England through portraits of women. With 53 portraits the exhibition shows the remarkable popularity of actress-portraits and provides a vivid spectacle of eighteenth-century femininity, fashion and theatricality.
The National Portrait Gallery (London, United Kingdom) celebrates the bicentenary of the birth of the nineteenth-century writer, Charles Dickens, with a new display that is part of Dickens 2012, the international campaign to mark the 200th anniversary of the writer's birth.
To mark the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, the National Portrait Gallery hosts this landmark exhibition that brings together some of the most remarkable and resonant images of Elizabeth II made during her reign.