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Painting portraits was his life's work, so the NPG show is the main event.
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Catherine's portrait joins centuries-worth of official paintings and photographs of the British royal family in the NPG's collection.
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NPG, though, Mr Ondaatje had evolved his own philosophy of giving.
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According to Vikram Savkar, the senior vice president and publishing director at NPG, Scitable now reaches more than 500, 000 students in 165 countries since its launch last year.
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NPG's own magisterial portrait of Burton.
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Portrait Salon was formed last year and describes itself as a form of Salon des Refuses - an exhibition of works rejected from a juried art show - that aims to showcase the best of the rejected images from the Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize, which is organised annually by the National Portrait Gallery (NPG).
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As the founders of Portrait Salon, Carole Evans and James O Jenkins write in the newspaper-style catalogue that accompanies the show, the idea began as an experiment and was not intended to upset or disrupt the Taylor Wessing, but to allow those whose work did not make the walls of the NPG another outlet.
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