01/22/2015. The National Portrait Gallery’s recently acquired self-portrait of Sir Anthony van Dyck was today displayed at Turner Contemporary, Margate, the first venue in its nationwide tour. It is set to...

12/07/2015. The Sobey Art Foundation and the National Gallery of Canada announced a new partnership in which the Gallery, starting in 2016, will become the organizing institution for the Sobey Art Award, Canada...

02/23/2016. A major display of personal items, original manuscripts and works of art to mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charlotte Brontë, author of Jane Eyre, opened at the National Portrait Gallery ...

04/07/2017. The National Portrait Gallery has acquired Sir Thomas Lawrence’s unfinished final portrait of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, following a successful public fund-raising appeal, it was...

02/22/2018. Eighty works by Spanish masters are arranged in a chronological overview, from the 1600s to the present-day. The still life paintings of great and universally acknowledged artists, such as Cotán, Velázquez, Goya, Picasso, Miró and Dalí are shown alon...

05/26/2018. Five previously publicly unseen works by Jamaica’s first and finest intuitive artist, John Dunkley (1891-1947), were revealed at the opening of John Dunkley: Neither Day nor Night at the <a href="https://nationalgalleryofjamaica.wordpress.com/" ...

03/07/2019. A recently discovered, rare self portrait by the most celebrated female artist of the Italian Baroque – Artemisia Gentileschi – has gone on display today (6 March 2019) in Glasgow Women’s Library, just in time for International Women&#...

08/24/2019. Sir Thomas Lawrence’s famous portrait of William Wilberforce will be exhibited in Hull as part of a major project, Coming Home, launched by the National Portrait Gallery. The Coming Home project sees the National Portrait Gallery lend 50 port...

09/03/2019. Reynolda House Museum of American Art presenting the work of Joseph Christian (J.C.) Leyendecker, one of the most prolific and sought-after artists of the Golden Age of American Illustration...

11/01/2021. Paddington Square, London’s new quarter for work, retail and dining at the heart of Paddington’s regeneration, has today announced a major programme of public art commissions, comprising first London permanent public works by internationall...

12/02/2023. Starting today, this survey exhibition celebrates the timeless art of Emily Kam Kngwarray – pre-eminent Australian artist and one of the world’s most significant contemporary artists to emerge in the early twentieth century. A senior Anm...

12/30/2023. The National Gallery has announced that it has acquired the painting Lot and his Daughters (1624) by Abraham Bloemaert (1566–1651), which has been on loan to the Gallery for the pas...

05/10/2024. This spring, The Laing hosts an ambitious exhibition of one of the world´s greatest artists, JMW Turner (1775-1851), centering on a work that the British public once voted as their favouri...

05/24/2024. A new exhibition of works by one of the world’s most revered artists, Edgar Degas, opens at The Burrell Collection on Friday 24 May 2024. Discovering Degas: Collecting in the Time o...

06/05/2024. As the National Gallery prepares to celebrate its 200th anniversary, it’s no surprise that such a big birthday has required some cosmetic work. Over the last three years the ext...