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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. Images are beautiful bright and vivid. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> The National Portrait Gallery in London is one of the world’s most popular museums. Its collection of portraits of important British men and women constitutes an extraordinary survey of historical and contemporary personalities. A national pantheon of great figures from Henry VIII to Paul McCartney the Gallery’s collection includes likenesses of political artistic and scientific characters such as Mary Queen of Scots William Shakespeare George Frideric Handel Lord Byron Florence Nightingale James Joyce Winston Churchill and Laurence Olivier. This book features a wide selection of the finest portraits in the Gallery ranging from the Middle Ages to the present day. The 250 portraits in the volume represent a variety of media – painting. drawing photography sculpture – and include some of the greatest historical treasures as well as masterpieces of British art. Each portrait is illustrated in colour and accompanied by a brief descrip- tion that gives information on the sitter the work of art and the artist. Short essays set the portraits in their historical context and a special section is devoted to portraits on permanent loan to four period houses: Montacute House Gawthorpe Hall Beningbrough Hall and Bodelwyddan Castle. This beautifully produced volume forms a permanent record of the Gallery’s major portraits. Past and future visitors to the museum historians of British art politics and fashion and general readers will treasure the book for its accessible explanatory text and the high quality of its reproductions. The National Portrait Gallery Collection provides a fascinating view of the most important faces of British history and culture. (MP)