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National Portrait Gallery, London
Art gallery in London, England / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The National Portrait Gallery (NPG) 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 national public gallery in the world that was dedicated to portraits.[4]
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Established | 1856; 168 years ago (1856) |
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Location | St Martin's Place, London, WC2H 0HE, United Kingdom |
Coordinates | 51.5094°N 0.1281°W / 51.5094; -0.1281 |
Collection size | 195,000 portraits |
Visitors | 1,619,694 (2019)[1] |
Director | Nicholas Cullinan[3] |
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Website | npg.org.uk |
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The gallery moved in 1896 to its current site at St Martin's Place, off Trafalgar Square, and adjoining the National Gallery. The National Portrait Gallery also has regional outposts at Beningbrough Hall in Yorkshire and Montacute House in Somerset. It is unconnected to the Scottish National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh, with which its remit overlaps. The gallery is a non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.