Image: National Portrait Gallery, London
The National Portrait Gallery in London is offering a limited-time retail selection of six paintings from this year’s Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer Portrait Award as customisable art prints. The gallery describes the award and its accompanying exhibition as celebrating contemporary portraiture and providing one of the most important platforms for portrait painters today.
The shop release extends the award’s visibility beyond the exhibition context, translating selected works into editions intended for home display. The gallery’s message frames the offer as an opportunity to buy “powerful portraits” from the current award season, with the prints available only for a limited period.
Among the works highlighted in the gallery’s online shop are 'Double Portrait with Mirror', 'No Place Like Home Sweet Home', 'Diane', 'Mummy Needs a Break', 'Sheikh in Blue' and 'Turning Thirteen'. The presentation shows the paintings in framed print form, with each image identified individually in the retail listing.
The Portrait Award remains one of the National Portrait Gallery’s best-known contemporary initiatives, focusing attention on current approaches to likeness, identity and representation. By making a curated group of award entries available as prints, the gallery links the competition’s exhibition presence with its commercial platform while keeping the selected works clearly tied to the 2026 award collection.
The online offer appears in the National Portrait Gallery’s subscriber email and directs readers to the gallery shop. The message also notes that each purchase supports the gallery, situating the print release within the institution’s wider fundraising and retail activity.
The National Portrait Gallery is based at St Martin’s Place in London, and the email identifies the offering as a benefit for subscribers of the gallery in London. The collection page is labeled for the Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer Portrait Award 2026.
