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After 20 years at Frieze, Victoria Siddall has become the first woman to take the helm at the National Portrait Gallery. And there’s change afoot, finds Charlotte Metcalf Conversations At Scarfes Bar: ...
Seven Secret Histories," the author and podcaster Carol Woolton takes a close look at jewelry through the ages, and how ...
It crackles with the kind of crude yet charming dialogue you’d expect to hear coming from the ladies’ loos in a busy pub – when the girls question why Anne Boleyn would have an affair with ...
To mark the occasion, their Majesties’ recently completed coronation state portraits were unveiled in the gallery’s central hall. Spare a thought for Peter Kuhfeld (b. 1952) and the self ...
Catriona Kendall, Editor The National Portrait Gallery most notably houses images of every previous president, allowing visitors to reminisce about each political figure as they progress through ...
King Charles III and Queen Camilla in front of the new Coronation State Portraits Lifelike and atmospheric portraits of the King and Queen commissioned to commemorate their coronation have been ...
at Los Angeles' Gagosian Gallery. By Benjamin Svetkey It’s not exactly the National Portrait Gallery in London. Or the Brooklyn Museum in New York. Or even the Portland Art Museum. But at long ...
but it’s far from the only portrait Charles has sat for. The National Portrait Gallery in London has recorded 170 official portraits of Charles over the decades—both photographs and paintings.
This was made by sculptor Maximilian Colt and painted by Jan de Critz. The recumbent effigy resembles portraits of the Queen in old age. The cost was £1485. In 1606 the Queen's coffin was transferred ...
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One of the Annes of Annapolis, Anne Tasker Ogle was 17 when she married Gov. Samuel Ogle, who was 47. Her portrait was painted by Thomas Hudson ... and actress Mary Ann Jung portrayed Anne Boleyn, the ...