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National portrait gallery london

From:     helen goodcraft
Category: Art
Date:     25 April 2008
Time:     03:47 PM

Review:

The National Portrait Gallery is full of portraits. Some of the people are famous. Some of the people 
were famous. Some of the portraits are by artists, some by good portrait painters, and some by what 
passes for portrait painters these days. WHy do we need a portrait gallery? Can;t they just put the 
good ones in the national gallery, or is a bad painting of a famous person interesting? That is the big 
question about the NPG. And the answer is sort of.  There is an exhibition about bluestockings which 
has one good portrait of a woman with long nose. Is it interesting to see bad portraits of 
interesting/underrepresented women? Sort of.


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