Tag: National Portrait Gallery

  • Constable Portraits: The Painter and his Circle

    This spring the National Portrait Gallery (NPG), armed with a little trowel, unearths lesser-known works from the oeuvre of one of Britain’s greatest landscape painters, John Constable

  • BP Portrait Award 2007

    National Portrait Gallery, London 14 June – 16 September 2007 When this annual exhibition was launched 28 years ago it suffered some hostile critical reception but has now built itself into something of a national institution, and I personally try…

  • London comment: e-letter from London

    The sudden departure of Chief Curator Lars Nittve from the Tate Modern in July suggested that all was not well at the great terminus of modern art, following the Century City extravaganza which so dismayed the critics. The sackcloth and…