Tickets go on sale two weeks before the tour date. Step inside the Gallery before the crowds and follow our experienced guide on an intimate journey to uncover the hidden history behind some of the ...

Hungarian-born publisher; in 1951 with Diana Athill he set up André Deutsch Ltd, an independent publishing house that maintained its position in the market until the 1980s. The firm discovered and ...

A tailor by profession and self-educated, Place was a leading radical activist. Convinced that working men needed the vote, he was Chairman of the London Corresponding Society - an artisanal group ...

John Colborne entered the Army in 1794. He first saw active service in the Dutch Helder campaign of 1799 and took part in an expedition to Egypt two years later. Colborne served in the Peninsular War ...

This book introduces the reader to the key people who have shaped the history of Britain, its culture and identity, by exploring essential highlights from the National Portrait Gallery’s unrivalled ...

Lord Chelmsford was appointed commander of British forces in South Africa in 1878. The following year he led the British invasion of Zululand. The first engagement of the campaign was the Zulu rout of ...

Born in Oxford on 7 August 1826, Gilbert was one of eleven children of Ashurst Turner Gilbert, principal of Brasenose College, Oxford and afterwards bishop of Chichester and his wife Mary Anne.

The online database contains information on over 220,000 works, 150,000 of which are illustrated; the National Portrait Gallery's collection includes over 350,000 works. We update the database daily.

Following the death of his father George V, Edward succeeds to the throne as King Edward VIII, but chooses to abdicate in order to marry the American divorcee, Wallis Simpson. Edward was the only ...

The Reference Collection is held in the Heinz Archive and Library and contains more than 70,000 portraits of important and lesser known figures in British history. The majority of these portraits are ...

The Primary Collection contains more than 12,700 portraits. Of these, over 4,100 are paintings, sculptures and miniatures. In addition, there are over 8,500 light-sensitive works on paper, shown on a ...

Bulgarian-born writer; studied Chemistry in Vienna before emigrating to England in 1938; wrote essays, plays, autobiography and a study of crowds, but made his name with the novel, Die Blendung (1935) ...