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:
“Our national experience in Americanizing millions of Europeans whose chief wish was to become Americans has been a heady wine which has made us believe, as perhaps no nation before us has ever believed, that, given the slimmest chance, all peoples will pattern themselves upon our model.”
—Ruth Benedict (1887–1948)
“I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)
“Each morning the manager of this gallery substituted some new picture, distinguished by more brilliant or harmonious coloring, for the old upon the walls.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)