Maybe its age, but its only recently that I've discovered the National Portrait Gallery. My first visit was with the volunteers from Jane Austen House Museum to see the single tiny picture of Jane Austen. More recently I went with a friend to see the Laura Knight exhibition and cannot recommend it highly enough. the exhibition is small but that only makes it possible to really spend time and immerse yourself with the pictures. Her work is deceptively simple and her choice of subject is varied: WW II scenes of the women in industry, gypsies and ballet dancers.
An unexpected extra that we enjoyed was the Thursday evening bar in the foyer (2 drinks for the price of one with exhibition tickets) followed by a cheese platter dinner in the cool of the basement cafe where the pedestrians passing above can be observed obliquely.
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