Dame Helen Gardner Fund
The literary critic and scholar, Dame Helen Gardner (1909-86), who was a Trustee of the National Portrait Gallery (1967-78), bequeathed the Gallery her royalties on her book, The New Oxford Book of English Verse. The Fund’s purpose is to facilitate the purchase of English literary portraits, and portraits of late 16th-century and early 17th-century sitters. The Fund has been vital in securing the acquisition of a number of important works.
A selection of works acquired with help from the Dame Helen Gardner bequest.
John Fletcher
by Unknown artist
circa 1620
NPG 6829
Sir Arthur Hesilrige
by Unknown artist
circa 1650
NPG 6440
John Evelyn
by Robert Walker
1648-circa 1656
NPG 6179
Horace Walpole
by Sir Joshua Reynolds
circa 1756-1757
NPG 6520
William Whitehead
by Benjamin Wilson
1758-1759
NPG 6211
No work found
Lady Ottoline Morrell
by H. Walter Barnett
1902
NPG P1005
Lady Ottoline Morrell
by George Charles Beresford
4 June 1903
NPG P1006
Lady Ottoline Morrell
by George Charles Beresford
4 June 1903
NPG P1007
H.G. Wells
possibly by James Craig Annan
1907
NPG P1132
Lady Ottoline Morrell
by Baron Adolph de Meyer
circa 1907
NPG P1098
Lady Ottoline Morrell
by Baron Adolph de Meyer
circa 1907
NPG P1099
George Bernard Shaw
by James Craig Annan
1910
NPG P1131
Lady Ottoline Morrell
by Baron Adolph de Meyer
1912
NPG P1008
G.K. Chesterton
by James Craig Annan
1912
NPG P1129
Katherine Mansfield
by John Herbert Folker
1917
NPG P1009
Joseph Conrad
by James Craig Annan
1923
NPG P1130
Aldous Huxley
by Vanessa Bell
circa 1931
NPG 6717
The Memoir Club
by Vanessa Bell
circa 1943
NPG 6718
Doris Lessing
by Leonard William McComb
1999
NPG 6516
Doris Lessing
by Leonard William McComb
1999
NPG 6517(1)
Doris Lessing
by Leonard William McComb
1999
NPG 6517(2)
Sebastian Faulks
by Matthew Carr
2008
NPG 6846