The National Portrait Gallery has just reopened after a 3-year refurbishment project. Established in 1856, it has been in its current location near Trafalgar Square since 1896.
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| Kate |
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| Charles Dickens |
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| Queen Victoria |
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| Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein. She wrote the novel in Switzerland in 1818 when she was just 18 years old! |
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| Mary's husband Percy. The poet was 29 years old when he drowned in Italy in 1822. |
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| The Chevalier d'Eon was transgender in the 1700's. |
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| Ben Franklin |
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| Irish poet Seamus Heaney |
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| Diana |
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| Legendary British folk chanteuse Sandy Denny |
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| D. H. Lawrence, author of Lady Chatterley's Lover |
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| Oscar Wilde |
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| Anna Wintour |
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| Vivien Leigh |
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| Amy Winehouse |
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| Judi Dench |
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| 1928 death mask of actress Ellen Terry |
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| 1882 death mask of artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
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| Noel Coward |
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| Bageriet Swedish Bakery in Covent Garden |
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