The National Portrait Gallery acquires work by Hew Locke

Hew Locke’s 2024 work Souvenir 17 (Albert Edward, Prince of Wales) has been acquired by the National Portrait Gallery made through its new contemporary art fund, Collecting the Now, supported by the Bukhman Foundation. 

 

“Souvenir 17 is a portrait of a British king-in-waiting, weighed down by the burden of history, which I hope can help us to think more about our long and complex relationships to history and nationhood. It makes sense for the work to be here at the National Portrait Gallery, having a conversation with the 19th-century portraits around it. It’s almost as if it’s come home.” - Hew Locke