Last year, the National Portrait Gallery unveiled a special wall in our galleries, called “Recognize,” as a place to highlight one important person in our collection as chosen by the Portrait ...

The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery (NPG) in Washington, DC, has acquired the earliest known photograph of a US First Lady. The quarter-plate daguerreotype of former First Lady Dolley ...

The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery has announced the 2025 Portrait of a Nation Award honorees. Established in 2015, ...

Official portraits of the president and first lady for the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery’s collection are currently in the works, though an unveiling has yet to be announced. Both of those ...

Below you'll find a few of our favourite things you can buy right now in the National Portrait Gallery Shop. But it's well worth going there yourself and having a rummage (though if that's tricky ...