Paul McCartney Photographe, 1963-64: Eyes of the Storm - www.artsixmic.fr/2026-04-09-p... #nationalportraitgallery
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🌹🎞 ‘The original triple threat’: two #exhibitions celebrate #MarilynMonroe as creative pioneer
#BFI and #NationalPortraitGallery to mark centenary of the #film star’s birth with ‘the summer of Marilyn’
#Event #London
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A self portrait of 17th century painter William Dobson. It is a head and shoulders portrait against a plain dark background, wearing a black doublet with a white high collar. He has curly black or dark brown hair and a moustache. He looks directly at the viewer. It has a square gold frame.
This self-portrait of #WilliamDobson was recently bought for the nation by #TateBritain and #NationalPortraitGallery.
William is going on a national tour soon, so I wanted to visit first.
My little Dobson loving heart is having a good day. 🥰
#art #seventeenthcentury #earlymodern
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#art #fineart #artstream #artreview #artdiscussion #artcritique #arttalk #americanpainting #americanart #americanartist #ceciliabeaux #nationalportraitgallery #smithsonian #patricksaunders #patricksaundersfinearts #representationalart #realistart #portraitpainting #MuseumTourTuesday
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Woman leaning against a tree, near a statue, by some buildings with the sun peeking just above the roofline
Post exhibition fade
#london #NationalPortraitGallery #lucianfreud
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Grandma Moses was cool af. What will happen to folk art now that everyone has a computer and AI? Also, not all art is political. Thankfully.
#NationalPortraitGallery #FolkArt #Painting #Art
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Sir Elton John im Museum - Familienporträt in der britischen National Portrait Gallery #EltonJohn #NationalPortraitGallery #Familienporträt #Popstar #London
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Elton John, David Furnish and their two sons have been honoured with a family portrait at the National Portrait Gallery in London — photographed by Catherine Opie.
A same-sex family now formally included in Britain’s visual history.
#EltonJohn #NationalPortraitGallery
#gay
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Staircase between the third and fourth floor - National Portrait Gallery, London
#stairs #staircase #npg #nationalPortraitGallery #alphabetChallenge #WeekIforInteriors #classicMono
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#barackobama #michelleobama #nationalportraitgallery #kehindewiley #amysherald #artmatters #portrait
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Available here linda-howes.pixels.com/featured/jam...
#wallartforsale #wallart #gifts #giftideas #Presidents #JamesKnoxPolk #NationalPortraitgallery #AmericanHistory #Politics #GeorgePeterAlexanderHealy #Portrait #darkHorse #Painting
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Two young women, April and June, sit together on a sofa, facing forward and meeting our eyes without flinching. Their bodies are close, legs intertwined so their limbs overlap and “confound,” making the boundary between two separate poses feel intentionally blurred. One figure sits more upright as the other reclines on the cushions, lying back so her head drops just past the sofa’s edge. The scene reads as playful and intimate, with cropped clothing and tasteful bare skin presented as self-possessed rather than staged. The paint surface feels warm and bodily against the sofa’s structured shape, and beneath the couch, possible phallic forms push into view like an intrusive, almost comic underside that turns the domestic setting into something charged and watchful. The scale and direct gaze keep the moment from becoming voyeuristic because the longer you look, the more it feels like they are assessing you. American artist David Antonio Cruz’s composition deliberately echoes art-historical reclining-figure traditions that often built around passive female availability. Cruz flips the power dynamic. Where a canonical precedent like Titian’s “Venus of Urbino” can read as posed for consumption, “April and June” hold an assertive gaze that signals control. This is their closeness, their room, and their terms. The title’s run-on defiance pairs tenderness with warning, as if intimacy itself is a boundary line. As the Outwin text notes, Cruz’s wider practice (across painting and performance) centers the visibility and intersectionality of queer Brown and Black bodies, and this work sits within his “returnofthedirtyboys” series, portraying queer-identified activists and community members. Here, sensuality isn’t an invitation. It’s a stance of chosen family, mutual trust, and pleasure that refuses to be separated from safety, agency, and the right to look back.
“theboysdon’tplaynice-withanyone, portrait of april and june” by David Antonio Cruz (American) - Oil and latex on wood / 2018 - Outwin 2019, National Portrait Gallery (Washington, DC) #WomenInArt #art #artText #DavidAntonioCruz #NationalPortraitGallery #QueerArt #arte #AmericanArt #AmericanArtist
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LUCIAN FREUD #LucianFreud #DrawingintoPainting #NationalPortraitGallery - From nuanced lucidity to dense opacity, this show follows a painter’s journey in the wrong direction, says Sarah Kent www.theartsdesk.com/visual-arts/...
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"Bathrobe Lady" is a photo of this age, and one for the ages. Once this regime is gone and its purge of history ends, this should find an honored place in the #Smithsonian or the #NationalPortraitGallery , or both.
2:42 PM · Feb 14, 2026
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Barack Obama’s official White House portrait
So impressive when viewed close up. 🩵 #NationalPortraitGallery
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Jamaican artist Wayde McIntosh builds “legacy” through objects as much as likeness and depicts American painter Jordan Casteel in a room that reads like a personal archive where family history, community responsibility, and artistic practice are inseparable. The medium-brown skin of Casteel almost glows she turns slightly towards us from her seat on a couch. She rests her head on one hand in a relaxed but guarded pose, meeting us with a steady, thoughtful gaze. Her short, dark curls frame her face as large, round black tinted eyeglasses catch the light. She wears a black zip-front graphic hoodie with printed text and figures partially visible on the chest. The couch is layered with patterned fabric and cushions, including a bright red pillow and a soft, gray, furry throw at the right edge. Behind her, a tall tapered wooden bookshelf rises like a backdrop with book spines stacked tightly, while long green plant vines cascade down. Pinned or leaning near the shelves are visual signs of public life including a prominent a bold “Black Lives Matter” magazine cover alongside a small flag with red-and-black striping. On the wall to the right, a framed black-and-white photograph shows two men standing with their hands over their hearts, adding a sober, documentary note to the intimate interior. The civil-rights references (including the photo connected to Jordan Casteel’s grandfather (Whitney Young Jr.) and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.), Black Lives Matter, and David Hammons’s African American Flag link past and present activism without turning Casteel into a symbol alone. She remains a person at home, choosing how much to reveal. Born in St. Catherine, Jamaica, McIntosh, was trained at MICA and Yale before working in New York. He approaches portraits as a collaborative truth-telling so the setting “reinforces the sitter’s history and character,” honoring how Casteel’s own portrait practice insists on dignity, attention, and the right to be seen on one’s own terms.
"Legacy" by Wayde McIntosh (Jamaican) - Oil on Dibond / 2017 - National Portrait Gallery (Washington, DC) #WomenInArt #WaydeMcIntosh #McIntosh #JordanCasteel #BLM #BlackLivesMatter #Casteel #SmithsonianNPG #artText #art #BlueskyArt #portrait #NationalPortraitGallery #PortraitofaWoman #Smithsonian
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Window frame in dark shadows holds a beautiful stained glass window. The top frame is patterned in brown, green and blue colors, while the bottom frames is only edged in the same green and brown alternating triangles. The center is a clear pane which reveals the front entrance of the government building in the distance featuring colonnades.
Through the window one sees a wintery scene in Washington, D.C.. #Tiffany #Windows #NationalPortraitGallery 📸
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The death mask of William Blake at the National Portrait Gallery.
"What God is he, writes laws of peace, & clothes him in a tempest..."
(America a Prophecy)
#NationalPortraitGallery #WilliamBlake
#DeathMask
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More trompe l'oeil frames (including Henry VII's, who married wife 1 on 18 Jan 1486)...
For Uccello see: theframeblog.com/2024/07/26/n...
#Frames #TrompeLOeilFrames #Illusions #15thCenturyFrames #HenryVII #NationalPortraitGallery #NGofIreland #Rijksmuseum #TheFrameBlog
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Two large painted portraits, one of a lady in a white dress with a red sash, Ada Lovelace, and the other of a man in a black suit, Charles Babbage.
Black and white photographic portrait of four children, three girls and a boy. They are Alice Liddell (sitting in a chair, on the left of the picture in a white dress and black hat) and her siblings, in a photo taken by Lewis Carroll. Yes, she's that Alice.
So today's London highlights were visiting the #NationalPortraitGallery, seeing many great pieces of art and hearing a young woman gush to her friend about #AdaLovelace being the first computer programmer and hearing the friends incredulous response of "She was what??"
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Don’t let America’s big idea dissolve into something else #Smithsonian #NationalPortraitGallery #GeorgeWashington #AbrahamLincoln #AmericanHistory
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The National Portrait Gallery in London.
15 January 1859: The National Portrait Gallery in London opened to the public. #History #NationalPortraitGallery
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Trump thinks that because he's president, he can rewrite history. This time it's about his portrait change and the text that accompanied it.
#Trump #Smithsonian #NationalPortraitGallery #history #slavery #Confederacy
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Londoners love the fact most of their beloved institutions (Not all) offer opportunities for those without money to see paid shows. Two hours well speant at #NationalPortraitGallery #CecilBeaton exhibition, thanks to their #PayWhatYouCan scheme last night. #LetsGuide #UniquelyLondon #ALondonersLife4
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A #Trump ofcl complained about that passage months earlier, when Trump was trying to force out the #NationalPortraitGallery dir.
The placard has been replaced with one whose caption is so short that the outline of the old sign is visible on the wall, simply noting Trump’s years in office. It […]
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The #NationalPortraitGallery removed a swath of text that mentioned Trump’s 2 #impeachments & the #Jan6, 2021, #insurrection as it swapped out a prominent photo of him this week.
#Trump & the White House posted on social media Fri & Sat to highlight the updated portrait in the “America’s […]
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Cecil Beaton by Paul Tanqueray
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1937
National Portrait Gallery, London
© Estate of Paul Tanqueray
#cecilbeaton #paultanqueray #photograph #portrait #portraitphotography #photography #photographer #nationalportraitgallery #London #uk #circa1937
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