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If like myself, you’re one of the masses who don’t have a ticket for the Da Vinci exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, you’ll be happy to know that the gallery have kept 500 tickets a day aside on a first-come-first served basis. Unfortunately I found out at first hand that these sell like hotcakes and the supply is exhausted by midday.

Having been disappointed and eluded by Da Vinci and determined to have a sponging up art afternoon, I remembered something about Nell Gynn at the National Portrait Gallery,  I went off to the neighbour’s house to see if they had a cup of sugar and I found something very sweet indeed.

The introduction of the possibility for ‘respectable’ women to carve out a career in acting is the starting point of this fascinating exhibition profiling the pioneering women who chose this path in the early 18th century. The coolest thing about the show was the fact that the public appetite for celebrity news and gossip is nothing that modern society has invented,

The exhibition is absorbing, and the fact that there’s no audioguide is testament to this, you can just walk around looking at the characters come to life in front of you, no special effects required. The exhibition runs until 8th January and you can find out more info here.

If you not able to get to the NPG, the book of the exhibition has the portraits and even more materials and you can get it here.