National Portrait Gallery in London

The National Portrait Gallery  is an art gallery in London housing a collection of portraits of historically important and famous British people. It was the first portrait gallery in the world when it opened in 1856.^[4]The gallery moved in 1896 to its current site  off Trafalgar Square, near the National Gallery.

Queen Elizabeth I

The gallery houses portraits of historically important and famous British people, selected on the basis of the significance of the sitter, not that of the artist..^[5] One of its best-known images is the Chandos portrait, the most famous portrait of William Shakespeare^[6]although there is some uncertainty (incertezza) about whether the painting actually is of the playwright (commediografo).<sup>[

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Shakespeare