U.K.'s National Portrait Gallery welcomes Harry Potter

Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe has become the youngest non-royal personality to have a solo portrait included in the permanent collection of London's National Portrait Gallery.

British artist Stuart Pearson Wright created the portrait of the 16-year-old as part of a series depicting British and Irish actors. The gallery purchased nine of the portraits, including that of Radcliffe, for its permanent collection.

Radcliffe sat for the drawingwhen he was 14 years old. It was completed after four sittings and depicts him as an ordinary teen: dressed in jeans and a T-shirt, seated in an armchair looking alert and curious.

"It's very weird. It's fantastic. It a very, very strange feeling," Radcliffe told reporters after seeing his portrait.

"It's a great honour to be in there among such amazing actors and actresses."

Radcliffe's portrait joins the thousands of works in the gallery's permanent collection, which includes paintings, drawings, prints, engravings and sculptures of famous people such as Henry VIII, William Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde, Laurence Olivier and Queen Elizabeth II.

Pearson Wright's Radcliffe portrait is part of an exhibition entitled Most People Are Other People, Portraits of Actors from Britain and Ireland.

The installation of more than 40 new drawings opened Wednesday at the National Theatre and the National Portrait Gallery in London.

Radcliffe is currently shooting Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.