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Records of the National Portrait Gallery
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- BY
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Title (The name of the record)
- Records of the National Portrait Gallery
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Description (What the record is about)
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Records of the National Portrait Gallery, including:
- minutes of the Gallery's various committees;
- Directors' papers;
- administrative correspondence;
- object files for the Gallery's Primary Collection of portraits (containing acquisition, conservation, loan and display information);
- reports and internal memoranda;
- exhibition records;
- press cuttings;
- building records including architectural plans;
- publicity material.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- National Portrait Gallery
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- No records held at The National Archives in this departmental code
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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- Topics
- Museums and galleries
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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The National Portrait Gallery was founded in 1856 with the aim of collecting portraits of 'the most eminent persons in British history'. It is a non-departmental public body of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C42/
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59 records
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Records of the National Portrait Gallery