National Portrait Gallery: The Stories Behind...

LONDON.- Did you know that military leader Lord Kitchener developed a knitting pattern for seamless socks, or that Lily Allen trained as a florist?

The National Portrait Gallery today launches an innovative marketing campaign which highlights the hidden stories behind its portraits of well known Britons. The new campaign - which encourages people to 'Take another look' at the Gallery's permanent collection - builds on research which showed that its visitors enjoyed picking up unexpected information behind the portraits. Read more...