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NOT TO BE MISSED


Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII’s second wife with those eyes that were said to be ‘black and beautiful’; Elizabeth I (the Ditchley portrait); William Shakespeare as a ruff-wearing, quill-brandishing, long-haired rake ingrained in our perception of him, whilst we really have very little evidence of what he looked like; Anthony Van Dyck’s self-portrait; Lord Byron, not looking particularly as his lover Lady Caroline Lamb described him – ‘mad, bad and dangerous to know’; Pauline Boty’s self-portrait in stained glass; Chris Ofili; Grayson Perry’s Map of Days; Kelly Holmes by Craig Wylie; Amy Winehouse (Amy Blue) by Marlene Dumas


Below Portraits of some of Britain’s most iconic historical monarchs, poets and playwrights hang at the National Portrait Gallery


Below, left Educational outreach programmes have been instituted, creating links between the NPG and teachers and students alike


Gallery’s 159-year history. While finishing his graduate studies at the Courtauld Institute of Art, he had worked for the museum part-time as a guard (‘visitor services assistant’), a career trajectory that has only helped endear him to the staff. His previous curatorial career stretched from Tate Modern to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. In a way, Cullinan has said being director at the Portrait Gallery takes him away from the art world, since the museum prized the importance of sitters over the stature of the artist, celebrity has always trumped artistic


ALL IMAGES: GARETH GARDNER / NISSEN RICHARDS STUDIO


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