The National Portrait Gallery in Washington is one of my favorite places in our capital, and the museum with the same name in London is just as beautiful and engaging. It was the first place I went when I arrived in the city a week ago, and, as always, there were new things to see. Here are just of few of the portraits that caught my eye this time.
- A double miniature portrait of Gerlach Flicke and the pirate Henry Strangeways which Flicke painted in 1554 when the two of them were both prisoners in the Tower of London.
- A statue of Edward of Woodstock, the Black Prince.
- Benjamin Disraeli, a Conservative Prime Minister under Queen Victoria.
- Charles Darwin
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