National Portrait Gallery, London

National Portrait Gallery
	The National Portrait Gallery entrance in June 2023
	Location of the National Portrait Gallery in Central London
Established	1856
Location	St Martin's Place, London,; WC2H 0HE, United Kingdom
Coordinates	51°30′34″N 0°07′41″W / 51.5094°N 0.1281°W
Collection size	195,000 portraits
Visitors	1,619,694 (2019); Ranked 11th nationally; Ranked 22nd art museum globally (2014);
Director	Nicholas Cullinan
Public transit access	Charing Cross; Charing Cross; Leicester Square; Embankment
Website	npg.org.uk

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The National Portrait Gallery (NPG) is an art gallery in London that houses a collection of portraits of historically important and famous British people. When it opened in 1856, it was arguably the first national public gallery in the world that was dedicated to portraits.^[4]

The gallery moved in 1896 to its current site at St Martin's Place, off Trafalgar Square, and adjoining the National Gallery. The National Portrait Gallery also has regional outposts at Beningbrough Hall in Yorkshire and Montacute House in Somerset. It is unconnected to the Scottish National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh, with which its remit overlaps. The gallery is a non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.

^ "ALVA – Association of Leading Visitor Attractions". www.alva.org.uk. Retrieved 23 October 2020.
^ Top 100 Art Museum Attendance, The Art Newspaper, 2015. Retrieved on 10 October 2015.
^ Pes, Javier (6 January 2015). "National Portrait Gallery lures Met curator back to London". The Art Newspaper. Retrieved 6 January 2015.
^ "National Portrait Gallery: About". ARTINFO. 2008. Archived from the original on 4 December 2008. Retrieved 30 July 2008.

[ALVA_2019_visitor_numbers-1] "ALVA – Association of Leading Visitor Attractions". www.alva.org.uk. Retrieved 23 October 2020.

[worldranking-2] Top 100 Art Museum Attendance, The Art Newspaper, 2015. Retrieved on 10 October 2015.

[3] Pes, Javier (6 January 2015). "National Portrait Gallery lures Met curator back to London". The Art Newspaper. Retrieved 6 January 2015.

[4] "National Portrait Gallery: About". ARTINFO. 2008. Archived from the original on 4 December 2008. Retrieved 30 July 2008.

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