National Portrait Gallery | Who were the Kit-Cats? | National Portrait Gallery @nationalportraitgallery | Uploaded July 2022 | Updated October 2024, 2 hours ago.
As we get ready for our reopening next year, we're excited for the re-hang of our Gallery's Collection.

Following their treatment in our conservation studio, the portraits by Sir Godfrey Kneller of the Kit-Cat club are due to go back onto our Gallery walls.

The Kit-Cats were an influential club of the late 17th and early 18th centuries. In this film, Senior Curator of 17th Century Collections, Catharine MacLeod, discusses what the club were known for and how the got their name...

🎥Helen Plumb