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National Portrait Gallery welcomes TV’s President Underwood

FILE - In this April 27, 2015 file photo, Kevin Spacey, who portrays President Francis Underwood, arrives at the Q&A Screening of "The House Of Cards" in Beverly Hills, Calif. A painting of the fictional U.S. chief executive, as portrayed by Spacey in Netflix's political drama "House of Cards," was to be unveiled at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, Monday night, Feb. 22, 2016. The portrait is a joint project between British artist Jonathan Yeo and the museum, Netflix said. It’s scheduled to be on public display from Wednesday through October. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)
FILE - In this April 27, 2015 file photo, Kevin Spacey, who portrays President Francis Underwood, arrives at the Q&A Screening of "The House Of Cards" in Beverly Hills, Calif. A painting of the fictional U.S. chief executive, as portrayed by Spacey in Netflix's political drama "House of Cards," was to be unveiled at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, Monday night, Feb. 22, 2016. The portrait is a joint project between British artist Jonathan Yeo and the museum, Netflix said. It’s scheduled to be on public display from Wednesday through October. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)

LOS ANGELES (AP) – President Francis J. Underwood is sitting pretty at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington.

A painting of the fictional U.S. chief executive, as portrayed by Kevin Spacey in Netflix’s political drama “House of Cards,” was to be unveiled Monday night.

The portrait is a joint project between British artist Jonathan Yeo and the Smithsonian museum, Netflix said. It will be on public display from Wednesday through October.

A Yeo portrait depicting Spacey as Shakespeare’s Richard III was part of a retrospective of the artist’s work at the National Portrait Gallery in London.

In a move that the savvy Underwood would appreciate, the Washington unveiling was timed to the series’ fourth-season debut on March 4.