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Eastern end of the Lower Gallery of the National Portrait Gallery at South Kensington NPG 2747b

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Sir George Scharf

In 1870 the National Portrait Gallery moved from Great George Street, Westminster to the arcades of the Royal Horticultural Society gardens in South Kensington. Scharf executed a number of sketches and watercolours recording the arrangement of the portraits on the eve of the Gallery's second move to the Bethnal Green Museum, in 1885. This image features the pictures of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert opposite the entrance, marking the culmination of the historical sequence visitors were encouraged to follow from the earliest portraits on the... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.