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Piano Nobile is delighted to participate in a nationwide celebration of portraiture, instigated by the National Portrait Gallery to mark their public reopening following a significant redevelopment.

The accurate depiction of human likeness began with rhetorically truthful images of beauty and power in fourth-century B.C. Greece. Since then artists have gained an upper hand in the tradition of portraiture, making images that disquietingly externalise the sitter's identity and expose differences between how they are seen and how they see themselves. The portraits included here were made by …