Tag: National Portrait Gallery

Would you like to get to know more about Picasso? Maybe you have seen his paintings, but have you seen the portraits painted by him? Visit the National Portrait Gallery in London to learn more.

Between October 6th 2016 and February 5th 2017 there will be a fantastic exhibition on display in the National Portrait Gallery in London. On this exhibition you can see more than eighty works of Pablo Picasso showing his skills as a portrait painter. What makes his paintings so interesting is that they often differ a lot, and you will see his skills used in different ways in the different paintings.

Some of the works to be displayed in this exhibition are famous all around the world, while some of the works on display will be shown in the UK for the very first time. The exhibition is a cooperation between the National Portrait Gallery in London and the Picasso Museum in Barcelona.

Picasso portraits exhibition in London

National Portrait Gallery
October 6th, 2016 – February 5th, 2017

Entrance fee: £19 or £17 (there are discounted tickets as well, but this is the general admission fee).

Visitors are recommended to book their tickets beforehand, and that can be done right here.

The exhibition Sargent: Portraits of Artists and Friends will be shown at the National Portrait Gallery from February 2015. John Singer Sargent was an American painter who was considered the best portrait painter of his generation.

He was born in 1856 and he died in 1925 in the age of 69. The museum will show some of the best works of the painter and visitors will have the chance to have a closer look and discover more on his art work. Sargent is one of the most outstanding American painters in the history and from the next year in London the museum will show a wide range of various portraits from the painter. Sargent was closely connected to several of the leading artists, painters, actors and musicians of the time and these connections made him possible to create the portraits more intimate than the formal portraits.

The exhibition will show a great selection of paintings of the artist, at the exhibition visitors can explore more than 70 portraits of Sargent’s time in London, Boston and Paris as well. The exhibition Sargent: Portraits of Artists and Friends will take place at the National Portrait Gallery in London. The exhibition will be held from 12th February to 25th May in 2015. The entrance fee for the exhibition is for £14.50. The museum is open from Saturday to Wednesday from 10 in the morning until 6 in the evening and on Thursdays and Fridays it us open from 10 in the morning to 9 in the evening.

National Portrait Gallery
St Martin’s Place
London
WC2H 0HE

If you want to know more details on the exhibition and the museum check the following site for more details.

The exhibition will be displayed at the National Portrait Gallery in London. This is the first exhibition dedicated only to the Duke of Wellington which can be seen next year in London.

Arthur Wellesley was the first Duke of Wellington who was born in 1769 and died in 1852. Wellesley was a British soldier and he was one of the most important figures of the 19th century in Britain. At the time Arthur Wellesley was one of the leading military and political leaders and he is most famous for the victory over Napoleon at the battle of Waterloo. The exhibition will present the life and illustrate the most important events of the 1st Duke of Wellington and visitors will have the chance to discover more on the important role he had in the 19th century. At the exhibition there will be multiple paintings and portraits of Wellesley.

Approximately 59 paintings will be on display at the museum and some of them will be shown the first time to the audience. The pictures are from different painters including Goya, Thomas Lawrence, Antoine Claudet and so on. The exhibition Wellington: Triumphs, Politics and Passion will be held at the National Portrait Gallery in London. The exhibition will be shown from 12th March to 7th June in 2015.

For more information on the exhibition and the museum check the following site for more information.