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Thursday, 12 May 2016

“From Elizabeth to Victoria. English portrait from the collection of the National portrait gallery, London” at Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow

Marcus Gerard Jr. “Portrait of Elizabeth I (Portrait of Dicle)”. About 1592. Photo © Tretyakov Gallery

Thomas Jones Barker — the Secret of British greatness (Queen Victoria presenting a Bible in the hall for an audience in Windsor)”.
About 1863. Photo © Tretyakov Gallery

John Taylor (attributed)
“William Shakespeare”
About 1610. Photo © Tretyakov Gallery

Often we don’t know how looked the main representatives of English culture whose names are familiar to us from the school time. The exhibition will fill this gap. It will include portraits of prominent people in English history and culture: Queen Elizabeth I and Queen Victoria, Oliver Cromwell, Horatio Nelson, Isaac Newton, James Cook, William Shakespeare, Robert Burns, George G. Byron, Walter Scott, Jerome K. Jerome. This exhibition is the first experience of cooperation of the Tretyakov gallery and London’s National portrait gallery.

“From Elizabeth to Victoria. English portrait from the collection of the National portrait gallery, London”, State Tretyakov gallery, the Lavrushinsky lane, 12, till July 24

Text: Elena Panteleeva