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:
“Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching. Our splendid physique as a people is entirely due to our national stupidity.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)
“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)