{"id":11024,"date":"2022-02-03T09:17:29","date_gmt":"2022-02-03T08:17:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.whodoyouthinkyouaremagazine.com\/?p=9763"},"modified":"2022-02-03T09:33:11","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T08:33:11","slug":"ancestry-adds-125000-national-portrait-gallery-portraits","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/wdytya\/rss_feed\/ancestry-adds-125000-national-portrait-gallery-portraits\/","title":{"rendered":"Ancestry adds 125,000 National Portrait Gallery portraits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"><\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Rosemary Collins\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Thursday, 03 February 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p><hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>Family history website <a href=\"\/\/www.ancestry.co.uk\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener noopener noreferrer\" noreferrer=\"\" nofollow=\"\">Ancestry<\/a> has added a new collection of 125,000 digitised portraits from the <a href=\"\/\/www.npg.org.uk\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">National Portrait Gallery<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The portraits date from 1547 to 2018 and include many famous images, such as:<\/p>\n<ul><li>Activist and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, Malala Yousafzai, photographed by Shirin Neshat, 2018<\/li>\n<li>Theoretical Physicist, Stephen Hawking, painted by Yolanda Sonnabend, 1985<\/li>\n<li>Special operations officer, a wartime secret agent, Noor Inayat Khan, captured by an unknown photographer in 1939<\/li>\n<li>Pioneering nurse and businesswoman, Mary Seacole, painted by Albert Charles Challen, 1869<\/li>\n<li>A portrait believed to depict playwright William Shakespeare, attributed to John Taylor and painted between 1600 and 1610<\/li>\n<\/ul><p>Simon Pearce, family history expert at Ancestry, said: \u201cWe\u2019re excited to be working with the National Portrait Gallery to provide wider access to some of its captivating and historically rich collection.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHosting these portraits online at Ancestry means more people can explore nearly 500 years of British life \u2013 and some might even discover a family member in the collection!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The collection also includes many portraits of ordinary people. Ancestry users may discover a relative among the portraits, whose image they\u2019ll be able to add to their family tree.<\/p>\n<p>To celebrate the partnership, Ancestry is working with the National Portrait Gallery to launch <a href=\"\/\/www.ancestry.co.uk\/c\/familyalbum&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">The Nation\u2019s Family Album<\/a> \u2013 a search for undiscovered portraits of everyday British people collated into a representative online album.<\/p>\n<section class=\"&quot;highlight\"><div class=\"&quot;highlight__content\" editor-content=\"\"> <p><a href=\"\/\/www.whodoyouthinkyouaremagazine.com\/news\/family-photo-competition-winners\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">Family photo competition winners<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <\/p><\/div> <\/section><p>People of different ages, backgrounds and cultures in the UK are invited to submit their favourite family images by Thursday 30 June 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Entrants will be in with the chance of having their own family photographs and stories included in an online exhibition, as well as a display at the National Portrait Gallery when it reopens in 2023, following the completion of its <a href=\"\/\/www.npg.org.uk\/whatson\/news2\/inspiring-people\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">Inspiring People<\/a> redevelopment project.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>Rosemary Collins is the features editor of <\/em>Who Do You Think You Are? 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