Love the NPG. always seems a little bit overshadow...

Love the NPG. always seems a little bit overshadowed by its neighbour but it's a different kind of animal. Visitors tend to flock to the temporary exhibitions on the ground floor and the kings and queens on the top floor but seem to skip a lot of the other rooms. One of the most fascinating features is that the paintings are there because of the subject rather than the artist, and there's always a brief explanation of why the subject is there.