The National Portrait Gallery is next to the
National Gallery of London. It was founded in 1856 and has been in its current building near
Trafalgar Square since 1896. In total, the Gallery's collection contains more than 14 thousand portraits, including portraits of Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, Charles Dickens, Oliver Cromwell and other prominent personalities. Its first and most famous exhibit is the world-famous "Chandos portrait" of Shakespeare.