| Past exhibitions and displays |
| 2008
exhibitions |
| Wyndham Lewis Portraits |
3 July - 19 October
2008 |
|
| BP Portrait Award 2008 |
12 June - 14 September
2008 |
|
| Vanity Fair Portraits |
14 February - 26
May 2008 |
|
| Brilliant Women |
13 March - 15 June
2008 |
|
| North
Face |
29 March - 26 May
2008 |
|
| The
Diary Room |
5 March - 31 May
2008 |
|
| 2008 displays |
| Ellen Terry |
7 June - 9 November
2008 |
|
| Jason Brooks: Paul Nurse and Other Works |
24 May - 26 October
2008 |
|
| Eamonn McCabe: Artists and their Studios |
16 June - 19 October
2008 |
|
| Recent
Commision: Johnson Beharry |
Until September
2008 |
|
| Athletes & Olympians |
20 March - 28 September
2008 |
|
| Want to see more of me?: Donald MacLellan |
25 April - 21 September
2008 |
|
| Fashion
Portraits |
Until 21 September
2008 |
|
| Anthony
Caro: Portraits |
20 March - 7 September
2008 |
|
| Recent
Acquisition: John Donne |
Until September
2008 |
|
| Mary,
Queen of Scots |
Until September
2008 |
|
| Men
of the Day: Caricatures from Vanity Fair |
Until 31 August
2008 |
|
| Victorian
Women Historians |
13 March - 31 August
2008 |
|
| Recent
acquisition: Sir George Rooke |
Until July 2008 |
|
| The Search for the Source of the Nile |
28 January - 27
July 2008 |
|
| Jazz In London: Walter Hanlon |
21 January - 20
July 2008 |
|
| Recent
Acquisition: John Collier |
30 March - 19 July
2008 |
|
| Yousuf Karsh |
15 January - 6 July
2008 |
|
| Modern Muses |
13 March - 15 June
2008 |
|
| Underexposed |
1 April - 8 June
2008 |
|
| 2007
exhibitions |
| The
Photographic Portrait Prize 2007 |
8 November 2007
- 24 February 2008 |
93,829 |
| My Space |
20 October 2007
- 24 February 2008 |
35,236 |
| Pop Art Portraits |
11 October 2007
- 20 January 2008 |
60,165 |
| Daily Encounters |
5 July - 21 October
2007 |
27,547 |
| BP
Portrait Award 2007 |
14 June - 16 September |
|
| Four Corners |
24 March - 5 August
2007 |
29,980 |
| Face of Fashion |
15 February - 28
May 2007 |
66,213 |
| Between Worlds |
8 March -
17 June 2007 |
128,283 |
| 2007 displays |
| John Kay's Curious Characters |
15 December 2007
- 13 July 2008 |
|
| Portrait
of an Artist |
December 2007 -
June 2008 |
|
| The
Artist's Process |
4 December 2007
- 1 June 2008 |
|
| Shutting
Up Shop |
5 November 2007
- 4 May 2008 |
|
| Born
1947 - Camera Press at 60 |
30 October 2007
- 20 Arpil 2008 |
|
| Private View |
24 September 2007
- 16 March 2008 |
|
| Lives
and Letters |
15 September 2007
- 9 March 2008 |
|
| Joseph
Conrad |
28 September 2007
- 12 February 2008 |
|
| Alexandra
of Denmark |
28 September 2007
- 13 January 2008 |
|
| George
Augustus Sala |
28 September 2007
- 13 January 2008 |
|
| Captain
Scott's Last Expedition: Photographs by Herbert George Ponting |
September 2007 -
February 2008 |
|
| W.H.
Auden |
28 July 2007 - 20
January 2008 |
|
| Diana,
Princess of Wales |
14 July 2007 - 13
January 2008 |
|
| Making
History: Printed Portraiture in Tudor and Stuart Britain |
7 July - 9 December
2007 |
|
| Sir
Leslie Stephen |
5 April - 9 December
2007 |
|
| Devotional |
16 June - 25 November
2007 |
|
| 21st Century Portraits |
16 July - 28 October
2007 |
|
| In
the Making: Fashion and Advertising |
2 July - 14 October
2007 |
|
| Dadabhai
Naoroji |
March - September
2007 |
|
| Maurice
and Edward Detmold |
March - September
2007 |
|
| Caricatures
by Barry Fantoni |
23 June - 20 September
2007 |
|
| John
Linnell: Portraits |
24 March - 9 September
2007 |
|
| Victorian
Photographs by Elliott & Fry |
20 January - 23
September 2007 |
|
| Blair
at War: Photographs by Nick Danziger |
24 February - 15
July 2007 |
|
| Clear
Vision: Brockhurst, Frampton and Kelly |
January - 11 July
2007 |
|
| Thomas
Frye's Fancy Heads |
9 December 2006
- 1 July 2007 |
|
| Walter
Benington: Pictorial Portraits |
9 December 2006
- 17 June 2007 |
|
| Women
Writers |
9 December 2006
- 17 June 2007 |
|
| Different
Worlds: Contemporary Responses to Migration |
5 March - 17 June
2007 |
|
| Faith and Church: Portraits by Don McCullin |
3 February
2007 - 13 May 2007 |
|
| Individuals:
20 portraits from the Gap Collection |
12 February 2007
- 28 May 2007 |
|
| Lady
Mary Wortley Montagu |
10 March - 3 June
2007 |
|
| Jim
Dine - The Artist's Face |
16 December 2006
- 10 June 2007 |
|
| 2006 exhibitions |
| Cherish: Chinese Families in Britain |
23
September 2006 - 11 March 2007 |
52,716 |
| The Photographic Portrait Prize 2006 |
8 November
2006 - 18 February 2007 |
87,872 |
| David Hockney Portraits |
12
October 2006 - 21 January 2007 |
151,555 |
| Angus McBean: Portraits |
5 July
- 22 October 2006 |
33,647 |
| BP Portrait Award 2006 |
15
June - 17 September 2006 |
197,687 |
| Fame! |
8 April
- 6 August 2006 |
24,371 |
| Icons and Idols |
2 March
- 18 June 2006 |
211,264 |
| Searching for Shakespeare |
2 March
- 29 May 2006 |
28,231 |
| 2006 displays |
| Photographs 1965-2006 |
28
October 2006 - 8 April 2007 |
|
| Chartist Portraits |
5 August
2006 - 22 March 2007 |
|
| Pet Shop Boys |
30
October 2006 - 4 March 2007 |
|
| Sir Benjamin Stone's Parliamentary
Pictures |
5 August
2006 - 14 January 2007 |
|
| John Gay |
29
July - 3 December 2006 |
|
| Pulling Faces |
24
June - 3 December 2006 |
|
| Portraits on Paper |
29
July - 3 December 2006 |
|
| The Beatles on the Balcony |
5 July
- 22 October 2006 |
|
| First Showing |
11
February - 17 September 2006 |
|
| Faces of Wales |
8 May
- 17 September 2006 |
|
| A Picture of Health |
6 June
- 17 September 2006 |
|
| Benjamin's Britain |
13
June - 10 September 2006 |
|
| Fergus Greer |
7 March
- 10 September 2006 |
|
| Face of Monarchy |
11
February - 6 September 2006 |
|
| Royal Court Theatre |
25
January - 2 July 2006 |
|
| Harley Granville-Barker |
28
January - 3 August 2006 |
|
| Lillah McCarthy |
28
January - 3 August 2006 |
|
| Born in 1856 |
24
January - 3 August 2006 |
|
| The Royal Ballet at Seventy-Five |
14
January -23 July 2006 |
|
| Andy Warhol: Ten Portraits of Jews |
24
January - 2 July 2006 |
|
| Most people are other people |
28
January - 11 June 2006 |
|
| Commissioning Photographs: 1917-1970 |
23
January - 4 June 2006 |
|
| Chinese Connections |
27
January - 28 March 2006 |
|
| |
|
|
| 2005 exhibitions |
| Schweppes Photographic Portrait Prize
2005 |
9 November
2005 - 12 February 2006 |
184,211 |
| Look At Me |
24
September 2005 - 19 March 2006 |
65,671 |
| Self-Portrait: Renaissance to Contemporary |
20
October 2005 - 29 January 2006 |
63,551 |
| The World's Most Photographed |
6 July
- 23 October 2005 |
85,003 |
| BP Portrait Award 2005 |
15
June - 25 September 2005 |
187,662 |
| Family Faces |
14
February - 4 September 2005 |
53,285 |
| Conquering England |
9 March
- 19 June 2005 |
102,724 |
| Lee Miller: Portraits |
3 February
- 30 May 2005 |
63,182 |
| 2005 displays |
| Charles Conder |
From
10 September 2005 |
|
| Sir George Scharf |
17
December 2005 - 18 June 2006 |
|
| Sir Edward Burne-Jones |
September
2005 - June 2006 |
|
| Heads of Government: Photographs by David
Partner |
18
October 2005 - 5 March 2006 |
|
| Sir Henry Irving |
10
September 2005 - 29 January 2006 |
|
| Popular Prints of Victoria and Albert |
10
September 2005 - 29 January 2006 |
|
| A Question of Identity: Self-Portrait
Photographs 1850 - 2000 |
20
September 2005 - 29 January 2006 |
|
| Recent Photographic Acquisitions |
28
November 2005 - 26 Jan 2006 |
|
| Cornel Lucas: Shooting Stars |
27
July 2005 - 22 January 2006 |
|
| Portraits of John Nash |
18
June 2005 - 8 January 2006 |
|
| Twentieth Century Printmakers |
18
June 2005 - 8 January 2006 |
|
| Samuel Beckett |
18
June 2005 - 8 January 2006 |
|
| Gunpowder, Treason and Plot |
17
September - 18 December 2005 |
|
| Nelson: Before and After Trafalgar |
2 July
- 11 December 2005 |
|
| 25 Years of i-D |
3 October
- 29 November 2005 |
|
| Derry Moore Photographs |
6 April
- 16 October 2005 |
|
| Cameroon - London |
8 July
- 16 October 2005 |
|
| Defying Distance |
14
June - 25 September 2005 |
|
| Recent Commissions & Acquisitions |
20
July - 25 September 2005 |
|
| Bloomsbury and Beyond |
31
May - 19 September 2005 |
|
| George Moore |
June
- September 2005 |
|
| Punch's Artists |
June
- September 2005 |
|
| Frida Kahlo: Portraits of an Icon |
3 February
- 24 July 2005 |
|
| Harry Borden on Business |
1 April
- 3 July 2005 |
|
| One hundred years ago |
8 February
- 15 June 1905 |
|
| Our Journeys Our Stories |
29
April - 10 June 2005 |
|
| Goddesses and Others |
17
January - 30 May 2005 |
|
| Jane Bown |
8 February
- 28 April 2005 |
|
| |
|
|
| 2004 exhibitions |
| Schweppes Photographic Portrait Prize
2004 |
17
November 2004 - 20 February 2005 |
137,993 |
| Inner Picture |
23
October 2004 - 16 January 2005 |
11,955 |
| G.F. Watts: Portraits - Fame & Beauty in
Victorian Society |
14
October 2004 - 9 January 2005 |
23,549 |
| Off the Beaten Track |
7
July - 31 October 2004 |
162,457 |
| BP Portrait Award 2004 |
17
June - 19 September 2004 |
182,009 |
| We Are The People |
2
March - 20 June 2004 |
139,971 |
| Cecil Beaton Portraits |
5
February - 31 May 2004 |
127,593 |
| 2004 displays |
| Robert Baden-Powell |
18 December 2004
- January 2006 |
|
| Victorian Women by Walery |
18 December 2004
- 4 September 2005 |
|
| Silhouettes |
11 September 2004
- 26 June 2005 |
|
| Juliet
Pannett: Chronicler of her Times |
8 December 2004
- 15 June 2005 |
|
| Anna
May Wong: Frosted Yellow Willows |
8 December 2004
- 15 June 2005 |
|
| Paul
Tanqueray: Young in the Twenties |
8 December 2004
- 15 June 2005 |
|
| Photographs by Horace Ové |
2 October 2004 -
4 April 2005 |
|
| A
Blueprint for Life |
17 September 2004
- 30 March 2005 |
|
| G.F.
Watts by His Contemporaries |
14 October 2004
- 9 January 2005 |
|
| Margery
Allingham 1904 - 1966 |
27 May 2004 - 6
February 2005 |
|
| Vicky:
Cartoons from the 1960s and 1970s |
18 September 2004
- 23 January 2005 |
|
| The Legal Face |
3 August
2004 - 6 January 2005 |
|
| Norman Parkinson: Portraits in Fashion |
1 September
2004 - 16 January 2005 |
|
| Olympians and Paralympians |
13
June - 17 December 2004 |
|
| In Dahomey: Photographs by Cavendish Morton |
10
July - 12 December 2004 |
|
| Disraeli and Gladstone in Vanity Fair |
8 July
- 12 December 2004 |
|
| Portraits and Prints of Alphonse Legros |
8 July
- 12 December 2004 |
|
| Seizing an Instant: Photographs by Roger Mayne |
12
June - 5 December 2004 |
|
| Theodore de Mayerne |
27
May - 26 September 2004 |
|
| James Hunkin: Faces of Science |
20
April - 15 September 2004 |
|
| Bill Brandt: Portraits |
20
March - 5 September 2004 |
|
| Gaiety Girls |
5 April
- 31 August 2004 |
|
| Lucian Freud in the Studio |
30
March - 1 August 2004 |
|
| Mario
Testino: New Acquisitions |
24 January - 13
June 2004 |
|
| 2003 exhibitions |
| Schweppes
Photographic Portrait Prize 2003 |
5 November 2003
- 15 February 2004 |
140,205 |
| Below Stairs |
16
October 2003 - 11 January 2004 |
41,372 |
| Circling the Square |
13
September 2003 - 28 March 2004 |
66,207 |
| Gardener's Labyrinth |
25
June - 19 October 2003 |
143,180 |
| BP Portrait Award 2003 |
12
June - 21 September 2003 |
160,198 |
| Self Portrait UK |
5
April - 22 June 2003 |
30,353 |
| You Look Beautiful Like That |
5
March - 8 June 2003 |
86,626 |
| Julia Margaret Cameron |
6
February - 26 May 2003 |
56,169 |
| 2003 displays |
| Beaton
Drawings |
12 December 2003
- 8 June 2004 |
|
| Heroes
and Villains: Scarfe at the NPG |
30 September 2003
- 4 April 2004 |
|
| Designer Faces |
20
September 2003 - 25 March 2004 |
|
| Terry O'Neill: Celebrity |
6
September 2003 - 14 March 2004 |
|
| DJs by Chris Lopez |
7
July - 28 September 2003 |
|
| William Hazlitt's Spirit of the Age |
20
May - 2 November 2003 |
|
| Lichfield: The Early Years |
3
May - 31 August 2003 |
|
| Baron Studios |
5
April - 28 September 2003 |
|
| Recent aquisitions: a touch of Modernism |
5 April
- 28 September 2003 |
|
| Brother and Sister: the Sassoons |
5 April
- 28 September 2003 |
|
| Albert Mansbridge and the WEA |
5 April
- 28 September 2003 |
|
| Restoration lives: Samuel Pepys and his
circle |
31
March - 26 October 2003 |
|
| Burlington Magazine centenary |
26
March - |
|
| British Blondes |
3 March
- 6 July 2003 |
|
| Iconic women by Reuters photographers |
6 February
- 26 May 2003 |
|
| David Hockney: Five Double portraits |
16
January - 29 June 2003 |
|
| 2002 exhibitions |
| Mad, Bad and Dangerous: The Cult of Lord Byron |
20
November 2002 - 16 February 2003 |
76,007 |
| Americans |
10
October 2002 - 12 January 2003 |
23,714 |
| John Kobal Photographic Portrait Award 2002 |
3
September - 3 November 2002 |
60,711 |
| BP Portrait Award 2002 |
19
June - 15 September 2002 |
109,662 |
| BP
Travel Award 2001 |
19 June - 15 September
2002 |
|
| George Romney |
30
May - 18 August 2002 |
18,978 |
| Potter to Potter |
15
May - 26 August 2002 |
106,722 |
| Saving Faces |
27
February - 21 April 2002 |
82,363 |
| Mario Testino |
1
February - 4 June 2002 |
168,069 |
| 2002 displays |
| Nicola Kurtz |
4
November 2002 - February 2003 |
|
| Local Heroes |
26
October 2002 - 30 March 2003 |
|
| Blow Up: Sixties Photography Exposed |
21
September 2002 - 27 April 2003 |
|
| Bassano's Photographs of the Year 1920 |
14
September 2002 - 23 March 2003 |
|
| Sir Kenneth Macmillan |
14
September 2002 - 23 March 2003 |
|
| Before Windrush: Images of Black and Asian
Figures |
14
September 2002 - 23 March 2003 |
|
| In Close Up: Humphrey Spender |
14
September 2002 - 23 March 2003 |
|
| The Art Establishment: Photographs by Lucy
Dickens |
10
September 2002 - 2 February 2003 |
|
| Mary, Queen of Scots |
24
August 2002 - 5 May 2003 |
|
| In the Picture |
- 20
October 2003 |
|
| She-Bop |
8 July
- 3 November 2003 |
|
| The Golden Jubilee Portfolio: Queen Elizabeth
II |
1 June
2002 - 9 February 2003 |
|
| Anthony Buckley |
20
April - 18 September 2002 |
|
| Managing Partners |
5 March
- 30 June 2002 |
|
| Howard
Coster |
25
February - 19 June 2002 |
|
| The Contenders: Sporting Portraits by Anderson
& Low |
25
February - 7 July 2002 |
|
| Changing Impressions |
5 January
- 19 May 2002 |
|
| 2001 exhibitions |
| John Kobal Photographic Portrait Award 2001 |
24
October 2001 - 24 February 2002 |
201,425 |
| Painted Ladies: Women at the Court of Charles
II |
11
October 2001 - 6 January 2002 |
44,009 |
| A Genomic Portrait: John Sulston by Marc Quinn |
19
September 2001 - 3 February 2002 |
|
| Mirror Mirror: Women Self-portraits |
12
September 2001 - 20 January 2002 |
66,779 |
| BP Portrait Award 2001 |
21
June - 16 September 2001 |
167,791 |
| BP Travel Award
2000 |
21 June - 16 September
2001 |
|
| The Beautiful and the Damned |
6 June
- 7 October 2001 |
44,523 |
| Philippe Halsman: A Retrospective |
23
May - 2 September 2001 |
|
| Horst Portraits: 60 Years of Style |
1 March
- 3 June 2001 |
42,121 |
| Rollie McKenna |
1 March
- 13 May 2001 |
88,201 |
| Return to Life |
7 February
- 20 May 2001 |
19,513 |
| 2001 displays |
| Reviewers Revealed: Celebrating the TLS
Centenary |
7
November 2001 - 4 March 2002 |
|
| Contemporary Women Artists |
22
October 2001 - 24 February 2002 |
|
| Sixties Style: Ward, Wharton and Seymour |
17
October 2001 - 14 April 2002 |
|
| Winifred
Radford |
17
October 2001 - 6 May 2002 |
|
| Indian
Princes |
17
October 2001 - 6 May 2002 |
|
| Dancers |
17
October 2001 - 6 May 2002 |
|
| Photographs
by Pamela Chandler |
13
April 2001 - 6 May 2002 |
|
| In the City: Edward Barber |
29
August 2001 - 3 March 2002 |
|
| The Duke of Wellington: Sketches from a Military
Life |
14
July 2001 - 2 January 2002 |
|
| RSPP |
7 July
- 2 September 2001 |
|
| Fergus Greer: Directors |
2 July
- 21 October 2001 |
|
| The
Spanish Civil War |
13
April - 9 October 2001 |
|
| Prominent
Women: Photographs by Magnus and Lewinski |
17
March - 18 September 2001 |
|
| Portraits in Mind: 100 Years of British Pyschology |
9 May
- 27 August 2001 |
|
| The
Festival of Britain |
13
April - 14 October 2001 |
|
| Strip |
12
April - 1 July 2001 |
|
| Cartoons
and Caricatures |
17
March - 18 September 2001 |
|
| Mike
McCartney: 60s Photographs |
17
March - 18 September 2001 |
|
| 20th
Century Recent Acquisitions |
10
March - 1 July 2001 |
|
| Gemma
Levine: Portrait Photographer |
22
January - 8 April 2001 |
|
| Portraits in Profile: The Dighton Family |
6 January
- 8 July 2001 |
|
| 2000 exhibitions |
| Painting
the Century |
26
October 2000 - 4 February 2001 |
78,862 |
| Escape to Eden |
5 October
2000 - 21 January 2001 |
53,290 |
| BP
Portrait Award 2000 |
22
June - 1 October 2000 |
171,808 |
| Polly
Borland |
25 May - 17 September
2000 |
|
| Elizabeth
Taylor |
15
May - 16 July 200 |
79,140 |
| Photographs
by Snowdon: A Retrospective |
25
February - 4 June 2000 |
76,798 |
| Photographs
by David Wilkie Wynfield |
28
February - 14 May 2000 |
137,416 |
