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:
“The signs look better. The Father of Waters again goes unvexed to the sea. Thanks to the great North-West for it. Nor yet wholly to them.... The job was a great national one.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)
“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)
“I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a gallery of living portraits but as a cemetery of tax-deductible wealth.”
—Lewis H. Lapham (b. 1935)