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:
“Universal suffrage should rest upon universal education. To this end, liberal and permanent provision should be made for the support of free schools by the State governments, and, if need be, supplemented by legitimate aid from national authority.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)
“Few persons who have ever sat for a portrait can have felt anything but inferior while the process is going on.”
—Anthony Powell (b. 1905)
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—Herman Melville (1819–1891)