Rab MacGibbon is Cross-Collections Curator at the National Portrait Gallery. He curates exhibitions and displays, and serves as the curatorial lead on Gallery projects and publications. He joined the Gallery in 2005, having studied a BA and MA at the Courtauld Institute of Art and working for the National Gallery and British Council. He has served as Curator, Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Collections, maternity leave cover for the Seventeenth Century Curator and Research Assistant for the catalogue Later Stuart Portraits, 1685-1714. From 2020-2022 he was Research and Engagement Fellow at the Parliamentary Art Collection.
His interests include the production and reception of British portraits. Publications that he has written or contributed to include The Royals: Tudors to Windsors (2024), The Collection (2023), Icons & Identities (2021), Elizabethan Treasures: Miniatures by Hilliard and Oliver (2019), The Lost Prince: The Life and Death of Henry Stuart (2012).
