With visual arts, performing arts, and new media, the Portrait Gallery introduces you to the people who have shaped the country—poets, presidents, actors, activists, visionaries, villains...and ...

Born on February 28, 1977 in Los Angeles, CA, he received his BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in ... their official presidential portraits of Barack Obama and Michelle Obama for the ...

An exquisite miniature portrait by Italian painter Lavinia Fontana was serendipitously rediscovered after turning up at an ...

Moreover, the National Portrait Gallery only takes up half of the building and shares the space with the Smithsonian American Art Museum. This museum showcases rotating exhibits, which have ...

This portrait of Queen Elizabeth I is by an unknown English artist in around 1588 The National Portrait Gallery is to send some of its best pieces of Tudor art out on loan together, for the first ...

We can choose to alleviate suffering.” In memory of former President James Earl Carter Jr., the National Portrait Gallery has added a drape to his portrait in the America’s Presidents gallery.