National Portrait Gallery, London

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National Portrait Gallery

Entrance to the National Portrait Gallery
Location of the National Portrait Gallery in Central London
Established	1856; 168 years ago (1856)
Location	St Martin's Place, WC2H 0HE, London, United Kingdom
Coordinates	51°30′34″N 0°07′41″W / 51.5094°N 0.1281°W / 51.5094; -0.1281
Collection size	220,000 portraits[1]
Visitors	1,619,694 (2019)[2][3][4] Ranked 8th nationally
Director	Nicholas Cullinan (2015 - )[5]
Public transit access	Charing Cross Embankment ( Charing Cross 100m) Leicester Square
Website	www.npg.org.uk

The National Portrait Gallery (NPG) is an art gallery in London. It holds a collection of portraits of historically important and famous British people. It was the first portrait gallery in the world when it opened in 1856.^[6]

The gallery moved in 1896 to its current site at St Martin's Place, off Trafalgar Square, next to the National Gallery. It has been expanded twice since then. The National Portrait Gallery also has three regional outposts. It is not connected to the Scottish National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh. The NPG is a quango sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.

1. ↑ "Explore our Collection - National Portrait Gallery".
2. ↑ "ALVA – Association of Leading Visitor Attractions". www.alva.org.uk. Retrieved 23 October 2020.
3. ↑ Top 100 Art Museum Attendance, The Art Newspaper, 2015. Retrieved on 10 October 2015.
4. ↑ "Visits made in 2009". Association of Leading Visitor Attractions. Archived from the original on 31 Oct 2010. Retrieved 21 May 2010.
5. ↑ Pes, Javier (6 January 2015). "National Portrait Gallery lures Met curator back to London". The Art Newspaper. Retrieved 6 January 2015.
6. ↑ "National Portrait Gallery". ARTINFO. 2008. Retrieved 30 July 2008.