The National Portrait Gallery is showing "Capital Portraits," shedding light on some of the city's most fascinating public figures, as well as the artists who immortalized them.
Each piece is largely personal, yet the story behind its creation reveals greater social context for the time period in which it was created. "Our reason for selecting things was both the artistic merit and for the interesting stories that they told about the coming together of the sitter and the artist."
http://www.npg.si.edu/exhibit/capital/
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