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:

    Let us waive that agitated national topic, as to whether such multitudes of foreign poor should be landed on our American shores; let us waive it, with the one only thought, that if they can get here, they have God’s right to come.
    Herman Melville (1819–1891)

    Long before Einstein told us that matter is energy, Machiavelli and Hobbes and other modern political philosophers defined man as a lump of matter whose most politically relevant attribute is a form of energy called “self-interestedness.” This was not a portrait of man “warts and all.” It was all wart.
    George F. Will (b. 1941)

    To a person uninstructed in natural history, his country or sea-side stroll is a walk through a gallery filled with wonderful works of art, nine-tenths of which have their faces turned to the wall. Teach him something of natural history, and you place in his hands a catalogue of those which are worth turning round.
    Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)