The National Portrait Gallery is an art gallery in London that houses a collection of portraits of historically important and famous British people. When it opened in 1856, it was arguably the first n
The main entrance in June 2023
The Chandos portrait of William Shakespeare, the first painting to enter the gallery's collection
The gallery's former main entrance in 2018
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George Vertue
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George Vertue was an English engraver and antiquary, whose notebooks on British art of the first half of the 18th century are a valuable source for the period.
1733 portrait of Vertue by Jonathan Richardson
The Gate at Whitehall (Holbein Gate) in Vetusta Monumenta Vol.1, 1747 (1826).