National Portrait Gallery

National Portrait Gallery

Year

1896

Type

building

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The world's first museum of portraiture, founded in 1856 and finally given a permanent building in 1896 on a corner site behind the National Gallery, designed by Ewan Christian as his last major commission and completed by J. K. Colling. Th …

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