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:
“Maybe it’s understandable what a history of failures America’s foreign policy has been. We are, after all, a country full of people who came to America to get away from foreigners. Any prolonged examination of the U.S. government reveals foreign policy to be America’s miniature schnauzer—a noisy but small and useless part of the national household.”
—P.J. (Patrick Jake)
“Giles Lacey: I say, old boy, I’m trying to find exactly what your wife does do.
Maxim de Winter: She sketches a little.
Giles Lacey: Sketches. Oh not this modern stuff, I hope. You know, portrait of a lamp shade upside down to represent a soul in torment.”
—Robert E. Sherwood (1896–1955)
“It doesn’t matter that your painting is small. Kopecks are also small, but when a lot are put together they make a ruble. Each painting displayed in a gallery and each good book that makes it into a library, no matter how small they may be, serves a great cause: accretion of the national wealth.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)