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National Gallery of Art: The Pre-Raphaelite Lens: British Photograph and Painting, 1848-1875

The National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. has an intriguing online exhibit about the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, which was formed by three painters, J.E. Millais, W.H. Hunt, and D.G. Rossetti in the 1840s, as a response to the establishment of photography as a popular medium. The Brotherhood and their followers aimed to "return to the purity, sincerity, and clarity of detail found in...

https://www.nga.gov/global-site-search-page.html?searchterm=...
National Portrait Gallery Picture Library Search

The (UK) National Portrait Gallery's online portrait database now has a search feature, ideal for all of us who eagerly flip to the back of a book's dust jacket for the author's picture or check a Website's "about" section for images of its creators. The online database contains approximately 10,000 images selected from the million or more portraits of famous Britons in the Gallery's collection....

https://www.npg.org.uk/
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National Portrait Gallery: Digital Resources

The UK National Portrait Gallery, which has made its collection of almost 200,000 portraits searchable online since the early days of the world wide web (http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/), now offers this digital resource page with a variety of tools to help both teachers and casual visitors better utilize its collections. Teacher's resources are provided for primary and secondary...

https://www.npg.org.uk/learning/digital/