Shakespeare to Winehouse open 9:00am–7:00pm on Thu, Fri, Sat from 7 July
Christopher Chapman highlights the inaugural hang of the new National Portrait Gallery building which opened in December 2008.
Michael Desmond explores what makes a portrait subject significant.
Dr Sarah Engledow explores the lives of Sir George Grey and his wife Eliza, the subjects of a pair of wax medallions in the National Portrait Gallery's collection.
The story behind two colonial portraits; a lithograph of captain and convict John Knatchbull and newspaper illustration of Robert Lowe, Viscount Sherbrooke.
The acquisition of the ivory miniatures of Mortimer and Mrs Lewis.