Great place!
Lots of art to see of different styles, great that it's free entry with optional donations, as it means it's something that you can add to your day, to your lunch break and it doesn't cost lots.
A lovely way to add some culture, talk about time periods and spend some time!
Cool gallery and a nice place to while away a few hours
The place is beautiful, especially if it is rainy and cold. A place where we enjoyed graphics and photos.
Appreciate the work of the museum to collect paintings based on the subject, not the artist. Beautiful free collection, donation encouraged and deserving.
Detailed curated paintings sculpture and photographs.
A free gallery in central London (bar any donations you wish to make or if you wish to visit the guest exhibition). Amazing art pieces, well curated, in a beautiful building. If it's your sort of thing you can be walking around for hours!
Was lookig for John Singer Sargent Portraits. Found them and more. Great WW1 collection. Awesome place. Free entree.
Absolutely amazing, need to go back that engrossed, hardly covered anything.
Some amazing works on display. The portraits are organised by period in time with detailed explanations. This gives the viewer a real sense of English history. Much better than just reading history from book. All this and it's free entry. I highly recommend a visit.
Free admission, of course, attracts, but in this gallery, it would not be a pity to pay for the entrance. :)
A very nice place to visit pictorial history of Britain well explained on wall best visit with your children
Great gallery one of the world leaders in this field, always worth checking it out online, get their newsletter sent to you.
My favourite London gallery. Amazing permanent collection, for free.
Great gallery, there is a wide mixture of styles and periods with the added interest on interesting subjects.
Well worth a visit. Shame that it will spon be closed for a number of years for refurbishment.
Stunning museum. Beautifully kept and laid out with awesome content.
The gallery contains a great walk through the history of the United Kingdom through some of her most important personalities. Much of the pew 20th century portraits are of kings, queens and various aristocrats. As we get closer to the present, there's much more diverse range of personalities. Many of the portraits have a description of the person or scene with gives the painting so much more context
I especially enjoyed the "womens exhibition" of the suffragettes.
Ultimately, the museum is a large collection of paintings of individuals and it can get rather tedious after a couple of hours. Still worth visiting though.
I was using the ladies room when a male cleaner walked in and proceeded to clean. There was no apology or even acknowledgement that I was in there. I felt extremely violated and will no longer return to this gallery.
I would go there every time I have a spare 10 minutes in West End London, stare at a Portrait for a while makes me feel refreshed.
Always worth a visit - especially given its protracted closure from next year. One hopes that this will give them time to consider their long-standing relationship with organisations such as BP.
Completely wowed by this place. Was my first time. Was a special evening and can't wait to return. The Taylor Wessing room was super cool. Winning photos were just the best - collection overall was pretty neat too!
We went during construction and it was hard to navigate. The gallery contains some absolute treasures that you've no doubt seen in print before - but you must absolutely go to truly understand why they're great works of art.
Masterly portraits
from the Renaissance to the present day. Touching: the Bronte sisters, painted by their brother, kept folded: the eyes of the sisters go far out, their narrow home widens and is reflected in world literature! Many touching encounters: Holbein's drawing of Henry VIII (I didn't want him as a husband!) Holbein was also active in the stable yard of the Germans in London. Modern: Elton John on gold leaf: the gods of our time? By Suzie Malin. Discoveries that you can make yourself - right behind the National Gallery!
A world renowned portrait gallery showing life through the ages - great restaurant too
If you only like the atmosphere of the museum and don't know the artwork, it's less crowded than the National Gallery, and the scale is good.
Another brilliant London gallery, world class displays and exhibitions and home to the BP Portrait Awards. The facilities are plenty, its clean and modern with a good gift shop too, well worth a visit if you're London bound and doing a gallery tour.
It's a lovely gallery and surprisingly empty given location
One of the best galleries in London, in my opinion at least.
Excellent gallery with a tremendous range of paintings over many eras.
Fundamental visit this museum to better understand the British idiosyncrasy.
Interesting British history through the portraits of his illustrious characters
Mainly oriented "English characters" Very interesting building. In a very typical neighborhood.
Good place to visit but not worth special trip for it
Well worth spending a good few hours looking at the portraits and learning the history behind the paintings
Special exhibitions are usually worth checking out. The BP Portrait competition is manageable and usually excellent.
The range of portraits and historical figures is fantastic! Easy to spend most of the day here.
Here ..in this national gallery ..you can learn a lot ..only if you visit it ..
Enjoyable couple of hours. Would like better signage
Just had another visit here to see the Martin Parr exhibition, absolutely fantastic show. This is one place I do try to visit whenever I get down to London and should on every schools list of cultural and artistic places to visit.
Lovely 1st experience. Nice leisurely stroll around the exhibition with a relaxed ambience.
Fantastic place, had the chance to join a free tour with a very knowledgeable guide that took the experience to a different level
I came to visit the BP portrait award and was disappointed to find it in a different location than usual. This space wasn't entirely suited to the exhibition, some pieces were on corners meaning you could end up accidentally blocking visitors from one painting by simply looking at another, completely by accident. It was all a bit cramped and for that reason I'd rate the visit 5 stars. The art itself was gorgeous, though
Inspirational for a
Photographer like me who loves portraits!
Love it. Great service. Excellent food sorry that it will be closed during 3 year refurbishment of gallery
So I have visited this gallery a few times (it never changes). The top floor consists of all the same type of old portraits, the further down you go from the third floor the more contemporary the pieces become. My favourite piece can be seen on your way up the escalator, I would recommend going in (it's free) just to see the 2nd floor which is accessible from the left and right stairwells upon entering the main door (before you see the escalator).
Enjoyed seeing the exhibits especially the Cezanne portrait special. Rather crowded for my liking but then again I did go on a weekend. Prices very good.
it always has amazing artwork which I thought was jawdropping to see all of these paintings in person
If you want to know more about the history of Great Britain, this is one of the place you must go to!
A great place to get inspiration and learn from the best for composition in photography.
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