National Portrait Gallery

The Bloomsbury Group changed British culture with their approach to art, design and society. This circle of artists, writers and intellectuals, who met for discussion in London in the early twentieth century, challenged Victorian conventions and presented new models of behaviour. They recorded one...

The Bloomsbury Group changed British culture with their approach to art, design and society. This circle of artists, writers and intellectuals, who met for discussion in London in the early twentieth century, challenged Victorian conventions and presented new models of behaviour. They recorded one...

THE CLUBThe kit-cat club was the most famous of the many clubs which grew up in the later I7th and early i8th centuries, where gentlemen would meet in the evenings to discuss politics, literature or the news of the town over a bottle of wine with friends of similar interests and political views. It...

Foreword Twelve years ago, the National Portrait Gallery mounted its first exhibition of photography. A retrospective of almost fifty years of photographs by Cecil Beaton, it enjoyed an unprecedented critical and public success and helped to establish portrait photography as a major area of...