Bella Freud x NPG
Everything is a Portrait

Available online and in-store from Thursday, 12 February 2026

To coincide with our upcoming exhibition Lucian Freud: Drawing into Painting, we are delighted to announce a new collaborative range with designer Bella Freud. Featuring the phrase Everything is a Portrait - a quote from Lucian Freud.

 

 ‘Making these things for the NPG show is a different way of working with my father again. Imagining what he would find interesting and amusing. I would sometimes show him ideas for collections I was making, now I am making something for him.’
-
Bella Freud 

 


'Everything is a Portrait' pouch with pencils resting against an easel by a model posing in a gallery setting.      Black tote bag with 'Everything is a Portrait' text in a museum setting 

Behind the Video Friends of Bella

Four artist friends of Bella were invited in to the National Portrait Gallery to sketch Bella's portrait in this celebration of portraiture. Sketches were created during a series of five-minute exercises.

Meet the artists...

Person wearing a white t-shirt with blue 'Everything is a Portrait' text in an architectural setting

Anna Morrissey 

Anna Morrisey is an artist, and the publisher and editor of Tummy Ache, a bi-annual
magazine using fashion and art to encourage conversations about mental health. She is a young person who is at ease and prolific in all areas of artistic expression. Now she is
focused on painting, making paintings of her family members and people close to her. - Bella Freud

 

Charlie Gosling

I saw Charlie Gosling's work when he exhibited at the first Incubator show. Incubator is a
gallery founded and curated by Angelica Jopling to show the work of new young artists. I
bought a painting. Charlie Gosling is an artist who I immediately loved. His work does remind me a bit of Lucian's and it is completely original. His work ethic is similar to Lucian's too, he works every minute of the day and sees people through the lens of painting. - Bella Freud


Santanna Xavier-Wade

I met Santanna Xavier-Wade at a life drawing class organised by Charlie Gosling, where I was one of the models. At the end of the session we got the chance to buy the works, and I bought Santanna's charcoal portrait she made of me. It has a Picasso-esque intensity that I responded to with affinity, and now hangs on my wall. She is one of a new generation of artists driven by that craving to paint and draw that overrides everything else in life. - Bella Freud

 

Woman sitting on a ledge in an architectural setting wearing a dog design t-shirt

Angelica Jopling

Angelica Jopling is the founder of Incubator Gallery, an art space situated on Chiltern St, London, which exclusively shows the work of new, young artists. She is at the forefront of a new movement to show the work of young artists, focusing on illuminating their talent and making it possible for them to build a reputation and income. She is a brilliant eye in a world that has become a little jaded.
- Bella Freud

     

 

 

Exhibitions

Explore our exciting exhibition ranges from current and past exhibitions, featuring Gallery exclusives and artist collaborations

Current exhibitions

Lucian Freud: Drawing into Painting

12 February - 4 May 2026

Past exhibitions

Cecil Beaton's Fashionable World

8 October 2025 - 11 January 2026

Jenny Saville: The Anatomy of Painting

20 June - 7 September 2025

Yevonde: Life and Colour

22 June - 5 October 2023