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The National Portrait Gallery in  London was founded in 1856 to collect portraits of famous British men and women; the Gallery collections include over 195,000 portraits from the 16th Century to the present day. [http://www.npg.org.uk/] The National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. was founded in 1962; It is the only museum in the United States dedicated solely to portraiture. It houses around 21,000 works of art included works by artistic giants of the [[Painting of the Dutch Century|Dutch Century]], as an iconic self-portrait by [[Rembrandt van Rijn]], the quiet light-infused interiors by [[Jan Vermeer]], striking portraits by [[Frans Hals]], Judith Leyster, and Thomas de Keyser. The Education Department uses history and the arts as a vehicle to introduce visitors to significant Americans in the Portrait Gallery's collection. [http://npg.si.edu/inform/overview.html]

The National Portrait Gallery in  London was founded in 1856 to collect portraits of famous British men and women; the Gallery collections include over 195,000 portraits from the 16th Century to the present day. [http://www.npg.org.uk/] The National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. was founded in 1962; It is the only museum in the United States dedicated solely to portraiture. It houses around 21,000 works of art included works by artistic giants of the [[Painting of the Dutch Century|Dutch Century]], as an iconic self-portrait by [[Rembrandt van Rijn]], the quiet light-infused interiors by [[Jan Vermeer]], striking portraits by [[Frans Hals]], Judith Leyster, and Thomas de Keyser. The Education Department uses history and the arts as a vehicle to introduce visitors to significant Americans in the Portrait Gallery's collection. [http://npg.si.edu/inform/overview.html]

[[Albrecht Dürer]], as Rembrandt, made many self-portraits; the most celebrated is the one painted when he was 29 and was renowned throughout Europe. The [[portraits|portrait]] [[painter]] [[Charles Willson Peale]] exerted a major influence on American painting through his own work and that of his sons, brothers and nieces. [http://www.artnet.com/library/06/0659/T065922.asp] [[Diego Rivera]], the Mexican best known artist, ca. 1936 did the famous portraits of Lupe Marín and of Ruth Rivera. A Rivera's mural for Rockefeller Center ''Man at the Crossroads'', was destroyed by order of his sponsor because of the inclusion of a portrait of [[Lenin]]. A portrait of [[Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra|Miguel de Cervantes y Saavedra]], 1600, is attributed to Juan de Jauregui y Aguilar.  

[[Albrecht Dürer]], as Rembrandt, made many self-portraits; the most celebrated is the one painted when he was 29 and was renowned throughout Europe. The portrait [[painter]] [[Charles Willson Peale]] exerted a major influence on American painting through his own work and that of his sons, brothers and nieces. [http://www.artnet.com/library/06/0659/T065922.asp] [[Diego Rivera]], the Mexican best known artist, ca. 1936 did the famous portraits of Lupe Marín and of Ruth Rivera. A Rivera's mural for Rockefeller Center ''Man at the Crossroads'', was destroyed by order of his sponsor because of the inclusion of a portrait of [[Lenin]]. A portrait of [[Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra|Miguel de Cervantes y Saavedra]], 1600, is attributed to Juan de Jauregui y Aguilar.  

Some other famous portrait painters are: [[Jan Van Eyck]], [[Raphael]], [[Hans Holbein the Younger]], [[El Greco]], [[Francisco de Zurbarán]], [[Anthony van Dyck]], [[Frans Hals]], [[Diego Velazquez]], [[Rembrandt]], [[Carlino Dolci]], [[Thomas Gainsborough]], [[Anton Raphael Mengs]], [[Jacques-Louis David]], [[Francisco de Goya]], [[Gilbert Stuart]], [[Jean Ingres]], [[Sir Francis Grant]], [[Ivan Kramskoy]], [[Pierre-Auguste Renoir]], [[Gustav Klimt]], [[José María Velasco]], and [[Jose Clemente Orozco]].  

Some other famous portrait painters are: [[Jan Van Eyck]], [[Raphael]], [[Hans Holbein the Younger]], [[El Greco]], [[Francisco de Zurbarán]], [[Anthony van Dyck]], [[Frans Hals]], [[Diego Velazquez]], [[Rembrandt]], [[Carlino Dolci]], [[Thomas Gainsborough]], [[Anton Raphael Mengs]], [[Jacques-Louis David]], [[Francisco de Goya]], [[Gilbert Stuart]], [[Jean Ingres]], [[Sir Francis Grant]], [[Ivan Kramskoy]], [[Pierre-Auguste Renoir]], [[Gustav Klimt]], [[José María Velasco]], and [[Jose Clemente Orozco]].