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Picture of the month: June 2020: Self Portrait in a Straw Hat

Voted your picture of the month: Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun's intriguing self portrait

Article (part of a series)

Reflections: Behind the inspiration

Read more about 'Reflections: Van Eyck and the Pre-Raphaelites' (2 October - 2 April 2018)

Thomas Gainsborough

Two hundred years of women benefactors at the National Gallery: an exercise in mapping uncharted territory

The article sheds fresh light on women who have been important benefactors to the National Gallery from its foundation in 1824 to 2024.

Martha Doris Bailey’s legacy gift 2023: Max Pechstein's 'Portrait of Charlotte Cuhrt'

Supporting the development of the national collection

Behind the scenes in Conservation: Solving the mystery of a Frans Hals portrait

How did the discovery of a monster and skull hidden beneath this painting reveal the identity of the sitter?

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A new chapter - Tahiti and the Marquesas Islands

Elizabeth C. Childs explores Gauguin's time in the South Seas and the impact the region had on his portraits

Article, suitable for key stage 3, key stage 4 and key stage 5

Tacita Dean: STILL LIFE

15 March - 28 May 2018

Past exhibition

Joint SSN Seminar: ‘Audiences, Authority and Collaboration in Museum Research’

Read a summary of the Joint SSN Seminar: ‘Audiences, Authority and Collaboration in Museum Research’ held at the National Gallery, Tate Britatin and National Portrait Gallery, 12–13 March 2015

Meeting Rembrandt

Find out how Rembrandt's paintings tell us about the artist and the people close to him.