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	Search the Gallery's collections A search facility with 115,854 portraits from the Gallery's collections, 58,136 of which are illustrated - last updated August 2008. Additional resources: CD-Rom of the collection \| Complete illustrated catalogue
	Ways of looking at the Gallery's collections Search the collection by Groups or by Subjects and themes. View an illustrated timeline and hundreds of documents from the Heinz Archive and Library.
	Portrait Appeal Help us acquire four great portraits: Lady Dacre and her son by Hans Eworth, Sir Richard Arkwright by Joseph Wright of Derby, Mary Seacole by Albert Challen and Marc Quinn's Self
	About the collections Primary Collection \| Recent Acquisitions \| Acquisition and Disposal policy \| Supporting the Gallery's Collections \| Archive Collection
	Photographs Collection Introduction and Access \| Collection holdings - prints \| Collection holdings - albums \| Photographic Exhibitions and displays \| Photographers represented in the collection \| DCMS Bassano Project \| Interviews with photographers \| Photograph commissions
	Commissioning portraits Introduction \| Commissioning Chronology \| The Commissioning Process \| Photographs Commissions \| The BP Portrait Award \| Icons and Idols publication (pdf format) Commissions: Film and Mixed Media \| Paintings and Drawings \| Photographic collections \| Photographs \| Sculpture
	Trails Creative Women in the National Portrait Gallery Collection
	Portraits on display at the National Portrait Gallery
	16th Century and earlier - Take a look at the Tudor Galleries Medieval Stairs \| The early Tudors \| Elizabethan age \| Miniatures Gallery - wallcase Around the Country: Montacute House
	17th Century - Take a look at the C17 & C18 Galleries Jacobean Court \| Charles I and Civil War - miniature case \| Science and Arts in the 17th century - miniature case \| Charles II: the Restoration of the Monarchy - miniature case\| The Later Stuarts Around the Country: Beningbrough Hall \| Gawthorpe Hall \| Lyme Park
	18th Century - Take a look at the C17 & C18 Galleries Kit-cat Club \| Arts in the early 18th century \| Britain in the early 18th century - miniature case \| Arts in the later 18th century \| Science and Industry in the 18th century - miniature case \| Britain becomes a world power - miniature case Around the Country: Beningbrough Hall \| Gawthorpe Hall \| Lyme Park
	Late 18th and early 19th Century - Take a look at the Weldon Galleries Portraits on display: Royalty, Celebrity and Scandal - miniature case \| Art, Invention and Thought: The Romantics - miniature case - pastel case \| Art, Invention and Thought: Making the Modern World - miniature case \| The Road to Reform
	The Victorians - Take a look at the Victorian Galleries Queen Victoria \| Statesmen's Gallery \| Expansion and Empire - showcase \| Early Victorian Arts - wallcase \| Portraits and Politics - wallcase \| Portraits by G.F. Watts - wallcase \| Science and Technology - showcase \| Late Victorian Arts - wallcase \| The Turn of the Century - wallcase Around the Country: Bodelwyddan Castle
	Twentieth Century We are making a New World: Britain 1914-18 \| A National Portrait Britain 1919-59 and Britain and the World 1939-59 - showcase\| Britain 1960-90 \| Royal Landing
	Contemporary portraits - Take a look at the Contemporary Galleries
	Portraits on display around the country
	Regional Partnerships and other loans The Gallery's three major regional partnerships and many other portraits on long-term loan throughout the country.

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