20th Century portraits
A selection of portraits in the 20th Century up to 2000.
Henri Gaudier-Brzeska
by Henri Gaudier-Brzeska
1912
NPG 4814
Isaac Rosenberg
by London Art Studios
circa 1915
NPG P230
Wilfred Owen
by John Gunston
1916
NPG P515
Lytton Strachey
by Dora Carrington
1916
NPG 6662
Radclyffe Hall
by Charles Buchel (Karl August Büchel)
1918
NPG 4347
Vanessa Bell
by Duncan Grant
circa 1918
NPG 4331
Sir John William Alcock
by Ambrose McEvoy
1919
NPG 1894
Ganga Singh, Maharaja of Bikaner
by Sir William Orpen
1919
NPG 4188
E.M. Forster
by Dora Carrington
1920
NPG 4698
Winifred Radford
by Meredith Frampton
1921
NPG 6397
General Officers of World War I
by John Singer Sargent
1922
NPG 1954
D.H. Lawrence
by Nickolas Muray
1923
NPG P208
Statesmen of World War I
by Sir James Guthrie
1924-1930
NPG 2463
A.A. Milne; Christopher Robin Milne
by Howard Coster
1926
NPG P715
Edith Sitwell
by Maurice Lambert
1985, based on a work of circa 1926-1927
NPG 5801
Emmeline Pankhurst
by Georgina Agnes Brackenbury
1927
NPG 2360
Doris Zinkeisen
by Doris Zinkeisen
exhibited 1929
NPG 6487
T.E. Lawrence
by Augustus John
circa 1929
NPG 2910
John Maynard Keynes, Baron Keynes; Lydia Lopokova
by William Roberts
signed 1932
NPG 5587
Aldous Huxley
by Howard Coster
1934
NPG P714
James Joyce
by Jacques-Emile Blanche
1935
NPG 3883
Ben Nicholson
by Humphrey Spender
circa 1935
NPG P42
Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor (King Edward VIII)
by Hugh Cecil (Hugh Cecil Saunders)
1936
NPG P136
Vivien Leigh
by Yevonde
1936
NPG P742
George Bernard Shaw
by Yevonde
1937
NPG P871(5)
Beatrix Potter
by Delmar Banner
1938
NPG 3635
L.S. Lowry
by L.S. Lowry
1938
NPG L224
Anna Neagle
by McClelland Barclay
1940
NPG 6054
Alexander Korda
by Anthony Wysard
circa 1940-1956
NPG 6120
Richard Hillary
by Eric Kennington
1942
NPG 5167
Peter Pears; Benjamin Britten
by Kenneth Green
1943
NPG 5136
Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein
by Frank Salisbury
1945
NPG L165
Sir William Turner Walton
by Michael Ayrton
1948
NPG 5138
Conversation piece at the Royal Lodge, Windsor
by Sir James Gunn
1950
NPG 3778
Barbara Hepworth
by Barbara Hepworth
1950
NPG 5919
Girl in Bed
by Lucian Freud
1952
NPG L258
Marie Stopes
by Sir Gerald Kelly
1953
NPG 4111
Richard Burton
by Daniel Farson
1953
NPG P293
Winston Churchill
by Graham Sutherland
1954
NPG 5332
Bobby Moore; George Best
by Syndication International Ltd
3 October 1964
NPG x199765
Queen Elizabeth II
by Pietro Annigoni
1969
NPG 4706
Harold Wilson
by Ruskin Spear
exhibited 1974
NPG 5047
Denis Winston Healey, Baron Healey ('Strings Attached')
by Gerald Scarfe
1976
NPG 6019
Daley Thompson
by David Buckland
October 1986
NPG P323
Peter Blake
by Clive Barker
1983
NPG 5845
Iris Murdoch
by Tom Phillips
1984-1986
NPG 5921
Dorothy Hodgkin
by Maggi Hambling
1985
NPG 5797
Seamus Heaney
by Peter Edwards
1987-1988
NPG 6023
Zandra Rhodes
by Andrew Logan
1989
NPG 6221
Bobby Charlton
by Peter Edwards
1991
NPG 6140
Harold Pinter
by Justin Mortimer
1992
NPG 6185
Jean Muir
by Glenys Barton
1992
NPG 6425
Glenda Jackson
by Glenys Barton
1993
NPG 6224
'Diana, Princess of Wales with her sons'
by John Swannell
1994
NPG P717(16)
Sir Kazuo Ishiguro
by Peter Edwards
1995
NPG 6332
Germaine Greer
by Dame Paula Rego
1995
NPG 6351
Derek Walcott ('The Sun Poet')
by Ross Wilson
1997
NPG 6400
Helen Mirren
by Ishbel Myerscough
1997
NPG 6415
Gilbert & George ('IN THE PISS')
by Gilbert & George
1997
NPG 6489
Sir Richard Branson
by David Mach
1999
NPG 6494