Neil Evans

You are invited to join us for a news briefing at the National Portrait Gallery on Wednesday 1 April at 9.15am (refreshments served from 8.30am) where we will announce details of our autumn display Simon Schama's The Face of Britain (16 September 2015-4 January 2016), and our partnership with the BBC. The collaboration also involves Oxford Film and TV who are making the television series for BBC Two and Viking/Penguin Random House who will publish the book.

The National Portrait Gallery has released a photograph of its patron HRH The Duchess of Cambridge being shown the Van Dyck Self-portrait it is campaigning with the Art Fund to save for the nation. The Duchess was given a private view of the portrait, on display at the Gallery, with director Sandy Nairne, during The Portrait Galaon the 11 February.

A landmark exhibition of the work of David Bailey opens tomorrow (6 February) at the National Portrait Gallery, London. Selected by the photographer, Bailey's Stardust (until 1 June 2014) is one of the Gallery's larger-scale photography exhibitions, with over 250 portraits occupying most of its ground floor.

The National Portrait Gallery, London, has unveiled its most recent commissioned portrait, a painting of Tony Blair by artist Alastair Adams, President of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters, it was announced today, Friday 20 December 2013. The commission is in keeping with the National Portrait Gallery's wish to acquire portraits of all former British Prime Ministers.

The National Portrait Gallery and the Art Fund today (Monday 25 November 2013) launch an appeal to raise £12.5 million and secure the last self-portrait of Sir Anthony Van Dyck. The painting has been in a British private collection for nearly 400 years but has been sold to a private collector who now wishes to take it abroad. This is the only chance a museum or a gallery in the United Kingdom has of acquiring the masterpiece.

The National Portrait Gallery is to stage the first national exhibition of the First World War centenary commemorations in February 2014. The Great War in Portraits (27 Feb-15 Jun 2014) will be the start of a four-year public programme at the Gallery of displays and events, and workshops for young people, it was announced today Thursday 24 October.

A landmark exhibition of the work of David Bailey is to open at the National Portrait Gallery, London, in February 2014, it was announced today (5 September 2013). It will include a new portrait of Kate Moss, exhibited for the first time, together with previously unseen work including images from his 2012 travels to the Naga Hills in India.

Pastel portraits by Bob Dylan will be shown for the first time at the National Portrait Gallery, London, in September - the first time his work will have been seen in a museum in a Britain.