The painting took three-and-a-half months to complete and was presented to the portrait gallery's trustees in November.
The National Gallery of Scotland was closed by a security staff strike, while only the ground floors of the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, the Scottish Portrait Gallery and the Dean Gallery were open.
BBC: NEWS | UK | Scotland | Civil servants take strike action
The 31-year-old duchess was last seen in public on Friday, when she and Prince William visited the National Portrait Gallery in central London for the unveiling of her first official portrait.
Two years ago their partnership was captured on canvas when she and Neil agreed to pose for a portrait for the National Portrait Gallery.
As a result of lottery lolly the National Portrait Gallery, the Museum of Scotland, the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, the Dulwich Picture Gallery, the Wallace Collection and many others have had a makeover, bringing them up to modern standards in terms of access, educational facilities, exhibition space and more.
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).
Two artists shortlisted for this year's BP Portrait Award at the National Portrait Gallery have been chosen for their impressions of their children.
Off-stage Bussell was made a CBE in 2006, her image was made in wax for Madame Tussauds, and her portrait hung in the National Portrait Gallery.
BBC: NEWS | Entertainment | Darcey Bussell's dance to the top
Next door is the National Portrait Gallery and just across the road is the attractive church of St Martin in the Fields, where you can enjoy free classical music recitals at 1pm on Mondays, Tuesdays and Fridays.
The portrait of Golding is included in the exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery.
Some citizens criticise pieces displayed at the Smithsonian as conservative, but there is much to say in their defence: some exhibits, particularly in the National Portrait Gallery, are pretty cutting-edge, and the Smithsonian is trying to encourage love of the arts among Americans as a populace, not satisfy avant-garde envelope-pushing.
But few works, since Francis Picabia's depiction of Marie Laurencin as an imaginary machine, challenge convention as much as the portrait of Sir John Sulston by Marc Quinn, recently unveiled at the National Portrait Gallery.
The portrait, called HRH The Duchess of Cambridge, is on display as part of the National Portrait Gallery's Contemporary Collections.
Man Ray Portraits is at the National Portrait Gallery in London until 27 May 2013.
An artist who has painted his sitter for nearly 20 years has won the National Portrait Gallery's art prize.
In 2009, a painting of Shriver with several Special Olympians was added to the permanent collection of the National Portrait Gallery.
Her work has been exhibited in many collections, including the Tate and the National Portrait Gallery, she has won wide recognition.
Mr Cobbe realised the significance of the painting after visiting an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery where he saw a portrait that had until 70 years ago been accepted as a life portrait of Shakespeare.
One contender was the new national portrait gallery being housed in the former American embassy, opposite Parliament.
The portrait was given to the gallery by Sir Hugh Leggatt in memory of Sir Denis Mahon, with support from the Art Fund.
The biggest rise was at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, which was refurbished in 2011.
The judges who chose his portrait as the winner included Saatchi Gallery director Rebecca Wilson and illustrator Axel Scheffler, well known for his work on The Gruffalo.
The portrait of Ann is on display in the Wolsey Art Gallery in Christchurch Mansion, Ipswich.
The Indian gallery features a Rembrandt Peale portrait (c. 1813) of future U.S. President William Henry Harrison, who defeated Tecumseh at Thames, as well as a buckskin jacket worn by Hillis Hadjo, leader of the Red Sticks (Batons Rouge), who were defeated by another future U.S. president, Andrew Jackson, at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend in 1814.
WSJ: 1812 | Canadian War Museum | Four Ways to Look at a War | By Mark Yost
But more often at least in the 19th century, when women took to the deserts and forests in some numbers the travellers who feature in an exhibition which opened on July 7th at London's National Portrait Gallery dressed themselves like maiden aunts, in perfect imitation of the conventions they defied.
They will be honoured in an exhibition at London's National Portrait Gallery, to mark 40 years of the Press Gazette.
Also in the arts world, Donmar Warehouse artist director Michael Grandage, National Portrait Gallery director Sandy Nairne, artist Gillian Ayres and textile designer Celia Birtwell were appointed CBEs.
An egregious example was a late Rembrandt portrait from Vienna, which ought not to have travelled, but which was shown at the National Gallery in London last year.
For a larger perspective on Alice Neel, read the 374-page biography by art historian Pamela Allara entitled Pictures of People: Alice Neel's American Portrait Gallery.
应用推荐