National Portrait Gallery clocks up 2,000,000 visitors...Its highest ever annual figure
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National Portrait Gallery clocks up 2,000,000 visitors...Its highest ever annual figure
Lucian Freud, Girl with a White Dog, 1950-1. ©Tate: Purchased 1952 © Tate, London 2012.



LONDON.- The National Portrait Gallery today welcomed its two millionth visitors – a milestone which sets up the highest annual figures in the Gallery’s history when they are published at the end of the month.

The group of visitors through the door when the figure of two million was reached was given a surprise welcome by the Gallery’s director Mr Sandy Nairne.

The Cara family from Northampton – Melanie, 45, Dave , 44, both doctors, and Josh, 14 – were presented with a year’s Membership to the Gallery (offering them special previews, discounts, and free admission to all paying exhibitions), a £100 voucher for the Portrait Restaurant and copies of the Gallery Guide and Highlights book.

Dave Cara said: ‘This is wonderful. I’m a regular visitor to the National Portrait Gallery and most of my knowledge of the history of British monarchs was learnt from my visits here over the years.’

The Caras were the two millionth visitors recorded since the 2011-12 financial year started last April (the full figures will be published at the end of this month).

Last year’s figure was 1,819,442 while the Gallery’s previous highest ever figure in 2009-10 was 1,961,843 visits.

The period included the three most-visited months in the Gallery’s history: February 2012 and July and August 2011.

100,000 people have already visited the hugely popular Lucian Freud Portraits, and last year’s BP Portrait Award 2011 exhibition - free entry made possible by BP’s sponsorship - received the largest number of visitors for any National Portrait Gallery exhibition (341,050).

Sandy Nairne, Director of the National Portrait Gallery, London, says: ‘The growing popularity of the National Portrait Gallery is made possible by having creative and hard-working staff, dedicated volunteers and great trustees, supported through an enterprising combination of public and private sector funding.’










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