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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.