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17 novembre 2010

London's National Portrait Gallery Finds Relics of English King Richard II in Its Basement

Sketch of the skull of Richard II, 1871. © National Portrait Gallery, London. LONDON.- An archivist at the National Portrait Gallery has found relics from the tomb of King Richard II while cataloguing the papers of its first Director Sir George Scharf...

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Tags: National Portrait Gallery, Richard II, Westminster Abbey

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25 juin 2010

BP Travel Award Winner 2009, Isobel Peachey @ National Portrait Gallery

Jonas, Medieval Knight, Company of Saynt George (work in progress) by Isobel Peachey © Isobel Peachey, 2010 LONDON.- Portraits from major historical re-enactments in Switzerland and Belgium will be on display at the National Portrait Gallery as part of...

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Tags: National Portrait Gallery, Isobel Peachey

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9 mars 2010

Un portrait de la reine Elisabeth I d’Angleterre révèle un serpent

Detail from the portrait of Queen Elizabeth I showing the outline of the coiled serpent she originally held. Photograph: National Portrait Gallery/PA LONDRES (ROYAUME-UNI) [08.03.10] – Quatre cents ans après son exécution, un portrait de la reine Elisabeth...

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Tags: National Portrait Gallery, Elisabeth I

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15 octobre 2009

"Beatles to Bowie: the 60s" @ the National Portrait Gallery

The Beatles by Robert Whitaker, 1964. Robert Whitaker Archive © Robert Whitaker LONDON.- A major photographic exhibition "Beatles to Bowie: the 60s" exposed opens at the National Portrait Gallery, to herald the fiftieth anniversary of the start of the...

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Tags: National Portrait Gallery, Mick Jagger, Cecil Beaton, David Bowie, The Beatles, Anita Pallenberg, Pink Floyd, The Who

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29 juillet 2009

National Portrait Gallery Acquires Major Portrait by Thomas Lawrence

Sir Thomas Lawrence, PRA (1769-1830), John Philip Kemble as Cato, 1812, oil on canvas, 254 x 177.8 cm A portrait of the greatest English actor of the early 19th century by the greatest English portrait painter of his generation will find its permanent...

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Tags: National Portrait Gallery, Sir Thomas Lawrence, John Philip Kemble, Joseph Friedman

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3 juillet 2009

'Gay Icons' @ the National Portrait Gallery, London

Joe Dallesandro by Paul Morrissey 1968. © Paul Morrissey, 1968. LONDON.- An important photography exhibition, Gay Icons , at the National Portrait Gallery will celebrate the contribution of gay people - and the significance of the gay icon - to history...

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Tags: National Portrait Gallery, Joe Dallesandro, K.D. Lang, Sylvia Townsend Warner, gay

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26 juin 2009

'Beatles to Bowie' @ the National Portrait Gallery

The Who, 1966 by Colin Jones, National Portrait Gallery, London. © Colin Jones. LONDON.- A major photographic exhibition Beatles to Bowie : the 60s exposed opens at the National Portrait Gallery, to herald the fiftieth anniversary of the start of the...

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Tags: National Portrait Gallery, Cliff Richard, David Bowie, Jimi Hendrix, Marianne Faithfull, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Wh

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3 mai 2009

'Bob Dylan 1966 European Tour: Photographs by Barry Feinstein' @ National Portrait Gallery

Royal Albert Hall, London 26 or 27 May 1966 by Barry Feinstein. ©Barry Feinstein LONDON.- Photographs of Bob Dylan's 1966 European Tour by Barry Feinstein will be displayed for the first time in London at the National Portrait Gallery in May. These photographs...

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Tags: National Portrait Gallery, Barry Feinstein, Bob Dylan

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16 avril 2009

National Portrait Gallery Acquires Newly Discovered Portrait of First Poet Laureate

John Dryden (1631-1700) by John Michael Wright (1617-1694), circa 1668. Purchased with help from L.L. Brownrigg, The Art Fund, the Lerner Gift and Lewis Golden. LONDON.- The National Portrait Gallery has acquired an oil portrait of the British seventeenth-century...

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Tags: National Portrait Gallery, John Dryden, John Michael Wright

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26 février 2009

"Gerhard Richter Portraits" @ the National Portrait Gallery

Selbstportrait (“Self-portrait”) By Gerhard Richter, 1996. Flowerman Collection, Tatsumi Sato. Copyright: Gerhard Richter, 2009 LONDON.- A groundbreaking exhibition devoted to one of the greatest living painters opens at the National Portrait Gallery...

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Tags: Gerhard Richter, National Portrait Gallery

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