National Portrait Gallery (London) Reviews

The NPG is right round the corner from the National Gallery but I think is just as worthy of a visit. The NPG houses portraiture from the Tudors right up to modern day and actively commissions work. The collection is arranged in chronological order and I probably spend the most time in the contemporary ...  Read the complete review

The National Portrait Gallery was the first of its kind in the world, established by eminent Victorians, such as Thomas Carlyle, to provide likenesses of the great individuals that influence and drive history (one of his pet theories). Of course in 150 years the notion of what it means to be a great Briton has changed somewhat as we live in an age ...  Read the complete review

The National Portrait Gallery is located on St. Martin's Place in central London and is found close to the National Gallery. It is only a few minutes walk from Leicester Square. The gallery houses over 1000 portraits of men and women from the Middle Ages right up to the present day. The museum is fairly easy to navigate and you can ...  Read the complete review

We visited the National Portrait Gallery between Christmas and New Year, and found it to be a very enjoyable experience. The staff were friendly, knowledgeable, helpful, well presented and courteous. A dissapointingly rare thing these days. The building was well signed inside, yet seemed rather hidden away. A lot of official-looking ...  Read the complete review

What made Britain great? It might have something to do with our former empire or the Industrial Revolution, but what made Britain really great was the cast of larger than life characters from the monarchy to scientists, explorers and writers that make up British ands English History. When in central London recently I thought I would celebrate the ...  Read the complete review

Now, I would hate for you to get the idea that I am a philistine - I appreciate a decent painting as much as the next man - but I must confess that given the choice between an afternoon in the pub and a trip to one of the West End's galleries, I tend to go for Guinness rather than Gauguin. Thus it was that, more than two years after ...  Read the complete review

London is huge and there are loads of museums and galleries in there. National Portrait Gallery is one of those smaller ones, compared with, for instance, British Museum and National Gallery (which is just steps away from the Portrait Gallery). So people tend to miss this one. Frankily, I won't say it's a must-see like British Museum or ...  Read the complete review

The newly revitalised National Portrait gallery is worth a visit. It is, however, just a portrait gallery, and I found it a tad boring. I am no philistine, but I just do not find portraits very interesting. The photo's made no imperession on me (apart from the one of Maggie Thatcher that made me a little queazy). It is a ...  Read the complete review

The National Portrait Gallery is situated to the side of the National Gallery. If you're in London it's very likely you'd 'do' the National Gallery but not this museum - that would be a shame. It may be a fairly small museum (certainly by London standards) but it's great fun. You can wander around the museum spotting famous ...  Read the complete review

Already one of London's best loved galleries, the portrait is now bigger and more best loved than ever before thanks to the new Ondjaate (no it probably isn't spelt like that) wing, which you reach by travelling up an unfeasibly large escalator. The great thing about the portrait gallery is that you don't have to know a lot (or ...  Read the complete review