What is a portrait?

What is a portrait, and why is every portrait different?

There are lots of different portraits of all sorts of different people in the National Portrait Gallery’s Collection. They were made by artists in all sorts of ways. In this video we look at lots of portraits, small and large, old and new, to explore what a portrait can be.

https://www.npg.org.uk/schools-hub/art-explainer-what-is-a-portrait

Watch and discuss:

1. Can you find any portraits in the room or building you are in?
2. Have you ever made a portrait? Who was it a portrait of, and how did you make it?
3. Has anyone ever made your portrait? Who made it and why?