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)

    It is the business of the critic, as of the portrait painter, to synthesize a million glances at his subject that will tell the onlooker at one glance the truth about him, as ultimate as he can get it.
    Rebecca West (1892–1983)

    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)