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 |
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...
Anna MorrisseyAnna Morrisey is an artist, and the publisher and editor of Tummy Ache, a bi-annualmagazine 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 GoslingI saw Charlie Gosling's work when he exhibited at the first Incubator show. Incubator is a |
Santanna Xavier-WadeI 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 |
Angelica JoplingAngelica 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. |

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