National Portrait Gallery

National Portrait Gallery can refer to:

  • National Portrait Gallery (Australia), in Canberra
  • National Portrait Gallery, London, with satellite galleries in Denbighshire, North Yorkshire and Somerset
  • National Portrait Gallery (United States), in Washington, D.C.
  • Portrait Gallery of Canada, in Ottawa, Ontario
  • Scottish National Portrait Gallery, in Edinburgh

Famous quotes containing the words national, portrait and/or gallery:

    “It is no part of the functions of the National Government to find employment for the people, and if we were to appropriate a hundred millions for his purpose, we should only be taxing 40 millions of people to keep a few thousand employed.”
    —James A. Garfield (1831–1881)

    “Giles Lacey: I say, old boy, I’m trying to find exactly what your wife does do.
    Maxim de Winter: She sketches a little.
    Giles Lacey: Sketches. Oh not this modern stuff, I hope. You know, portrait of a lamp shade upside down to represent a soul in torment.”
    —Robert E. Sherwood (1896–1955)

    “It doesn’t matter that your painting is small. Kopecks are also small, but when a lot are put together they make a ruble. Each painting displayed in a gallery and each good book that makes it into a library, no matter how small they may be, serves a great cause: accretion of the national wealth.”
    —Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)