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Not all of the portraits are exceptional artistically, although there are self-portraits by William Hogarth , Sir Joshua Reynolds and other British artists of note. Some, such as the group portrait of the participants in the Somerset House Conference of 1604 , are important historical documents in their own right. Often the curiosity value is greater than the artistic worth of a work, as in the case of the Anamorphic portrait of Edward VI , Patrick Branwell Brontë 's painting of his sisters Charlotte , Emily and Anne , or a sculpture of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert in medieval costume. Portraits of living figures were allowed in 1969 . It moved to its present building north of and adjacent to the in 1933 , whose wing runs along Orange Street, and the second by Dr. Christopher Ondaatje in 2000 . The Ondaatje Wing occupies a slither of land between the two 19th-century buildings of the National Gallery and the NPG and is notable for its immense, two-storey escalator that takes visitors to the earliest part of the collection, the Tudor portraits. In addition to its permanent galleries of historical portraits, the National Portrait Gallery exhibits a rapidly changing collection of contemporary work, stages exhibitions of portrait art by individual artists and hosts the annual BP Portrait Prize competition. EXTERNAL LINKS
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