National Heritage Memorial Fund
The National Heritage Memorial Fund was set up under the National Heritage Act 1980 in memory of people who have given their lives for the United Kingdom. The Fund celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2005. The aim of the Fund is to defend the most outstanding parts of our National Heritage.
National Heritage Memorial Fund
The National Heritage Memorial Fund has been vital in enabling the Gallery to acquire many portraits of outstanding significance since 1984:
Thomas Cromwell, Earl of Essex
attributed to Hans Holbein the Younger
circa 1532-1533
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Thomas Cromwell, Earl of Essex
studio of Hans Holbein the Younger
circa 1537
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Mary Nevill, Lady Dacre; Gregory Fiennes, 10th Baron Dacre
by Hans Eworth
1559
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Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk
by Unknown artist
1565
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John Donne
by Unknown artist
circa 1595
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John Fletcher
by Unknown artist
circa 1620
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John Belasyse (Bellasis), 1st Baron Belasyse of Worlaby
by Gilbert Jackson
1636
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Lord George Stuart
by Sir Anthony Van Dyck
circa 1638
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John Evelyn
by Robert Walker
1648
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Barbara Palmer (née Villiers), Duchess of Cleveland with her son, Charles Fitzroy, as Madonna and Child
by Sir Peter Lely
circa 1664
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Alexander Pope
by John Michael Rysbrack
1730
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William Jones
by William Hogarth
1740
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The Shudi Family Group
by Marcus Tuscher
circa 1742
NPG 5776
Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
by Louis François Roubiliac
1745
NPG 5829
Frederick North, 2nd Earl of Guilford
by Pompeo Batoni
1753-1756
NPG 6180
Karl Friedrich Abel
by Thomas Gainsborough
circa 1765
NPG 5947
Sir Joseph Banks, Bt
by Sir Joshua Reynolds
1771-1773
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Mary Wilkes; John Wilkes
by Johan Joseph Zoffany
exhibited 1782
NPG 6133
Sir Richard Arkwright
by Joseph Wright
circa 1783-1785
NPG 6848
Horatio Nelson, Viscount Nelson
by Sir William Beechey
1800
NPG 5798
Charles William Vane-Stewart, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry
by Sir Thomas Lawrence
1812
NPG 6171
John Ruskin
by James Northcote
1822
NPG 5973
Queen Victoria's First Visit to her Wounded Soldiers
by Jerry Barrett
1856
NPG 6203
Nightingale receiving the Wounded at Scutari
by Jerry Barrett
1857
NPG 6202
Edith Mary Liddell; Lorina Charlotte ('Ina') Liddell; Alice Pleasance Liddell
by Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson)
summer 1858
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