The Gallery is closed on 24, 25 and 26 December.

Photographer Zoë Law’s Legends series celebrates over one hundred individuals from the worlds of art, fashion, business and entertainment. From World Cup-winning footballer, Sir Bobby Charlton, to the ...

Tickets go on sale two weeks before the tour date. Step inside the Gallery before the crowds and follow our experienced guide on an intimate journey to uncover the hidden history behind some of the ...

Danny La Rue was born Daniel Patrick Carroll in Cork, Ireland, the fifth of six children. His father died when he was two and his mother brought the family to London seven years later. He first donned ...

Ida Kar was born Ida Karamian to Armenian parents in Tambov, Russia, on 8 April 1908. She was educated at the prestigious Lycée Français, Alexandria, Egypt before travelling to Paris where, with ...

What makes an individual truly great? For Mo Mowlam, Winston Churchil was 'an inspiration'. For Michael Portillo, Elizabeth I had 'extraordinary political gifts'. Find out what the public's choice of ...

Painter, writer, photographer and political activist Caroline Coon founded the Civil rights organisation Release in the 1960s and in the 1970s documented emergence of anti-Hippie punk scene including ...

When did you first start taking photographs? I started taking pictures after my dad bought me an Ilford Sportsman 35mm camera for my fourteenth birthday in 1959, though I had already been smitten with ...

Ojih Odutola is, in Smith’s words, the ‘central light in a thrilling new generation of black artists.’ In her portrait of Smith she has included a range of subtle details. Shapes and shadows evoke ...

Join us for a lecture led by Carol Jacobi, as she outlines the representation of women throughout Francis Bacon’s portraiture. Bacon’s famous portraits began with an off-hand request to Henrietta ...

Become more familiar with the world's largest collection of Tudor and Elizabethan paintings by playing our matching pairs game Explore this portrait of Edward VI, in which he is shown in distorted ...

Carry on down Whitehall and in the centre of the road is a large black-coloured bronze memorial with ‘The Women of World War II’ written on the side of it. Several helmets and uniforms have been ...