Georgian and Regency portraits
A selection of portraits from 1714 to 1837, many of which are on display at the Gallery or at Beningbrough Hall, our regional partner in Yorkshire.
OF 10
Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough
after Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt
(circa 1700)
NPG 3634
Queen Anne
by Michael Dahl
1705
NPG 6187
John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough
by Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt
circa 1706
NPG 902
Sir Christopher Wren
by Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt
1711
NPG 113
Frederick, Prince of Wales, and his sisters
by Philip Mercier
1733
NPG 1556
Alexander Pope
by Jonathan Richardson
circa 1737
NPG 1179
Prince Charles Edward Stuart
by Louis Gabriel Blanchet
1738
NPG 5517
John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich
by Joseph Highmore
1740
NPG 1977
Sir Joshua Reynolds
by Sir Joshua Reynolds
circa 1747-1749
NPG 41
Flora Macdonald
by Richard Wilson
1747
NPG 5848
Samuel Johnson
by Sir Joshua Reynolds
1756-1757
NPG 1597
George Frideric Handel
by Thomas Hudson
1756
NPG 3970
William Hogarth
by William Hogarth
circa 1757
NPG 289
Margaret ('Peg') Woffington
by Unknown artist
circa 1758
NPG 650
Robert Clive and Mir Jafar after the Battle of Plassey, 1757
by Francis Hayman
circa 1760
NPG 5263
King George III
studio of Allan Ramsay
(1761-1762)
NPG 223
Charlotte Sophia of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
studio of Allan Ramsay
(1762)
NPG 224
Catherine Maria ('Kitty') Fisher
by Nathaniel Hone
1765
NPG 2354
Karl Friedrich Abel
by Thomas Gainsborough
circa 1765
NPG 5947
Warren Hastings
by Sir Joshua Reynolds
1767-1768
NPG 4445
Angelica Kauffmann
by Angelica Kauffmann
circa 1770-1775
NPG 430
Mary Moser
by George Romney
circa 1770-71
NPG 6641
Richard Cumberland
by George Romney
circa 1771-1776
NPG 19
Sir Joseph Banks, Bt
by Sir Joshua Reynolds
1771-1773
NPG 5868
David Garrick; Eva Maria Garrick (née Veigel)
by Sir Joshua Reynolds
1772-1773
NPG 5375
James Cook
by John Webber
1776
NPG 26
Christopher Anstey with his daughter
by William Hoare
circa 1776-1778
NPG 3084
William Beckford
by Sir Joshua Reynolds
1782
NPG 5340
Mary Wilkes; John Wilkes
by Johan Joseph Zoffany
exhibited 1782
NPG 6133
Frances d'Arblay ('Fanny Burney')
by Edward Francisco Burney
circa 1784-1785
NPG 2634
Emma, Lady Hamilton
by George Romney
circa 1785
NPG 294
The Fourdrinier Family
attributed to John Downman
circa 1786
NPG 6091
Robert Burns
by Alexander Nasmyth
circa 1821-1822 (1787)
NPG 46
Sarah Siddons (née Kemble)
by Gilbert Stuart
1787
NPG 50
Anna Maria Jenkins; Thomas Jenkins
by Angelica Kauffmann
1790
NPG 5044
Thomas Paine
by Laurent Dabos
circa 1791
NPG 6805
Sarah Siddons (née Kemble) ('Mrs Siddons with the Emblems of Tragedy')
by Sir William Beechey
1793
NPG 5159
George Washington
by Gilbert Stuart
(1796)
NPG 2041
Mary Wollstonecraft
by John Opie
circa 1797
NPG 1237
Horatio Nelson, Viscount Nelson
by Guy Head
1798-1799
NPG 5101
John Constable
by Ramsay Richard Reinagle
circa 1799
NPG 1786
Thomas Hope
by Sir William Beechey
exhibited 1799
NPG 4574
King George III
studio of Sir William Beechey
circa 1809 (1799-1800)
NPG 6250
King William IV
by Sir Martin Archer Shee
circa 1800
NPG 2199
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
by Robert Home
1804
NPG 1471
Caroline Amelia Elizabeth of Brunswick
by Sir Thomas Lawrence
1804
NPG 244
William Blake
by Thomas Phillips
1807
NPG 212
Jane Austen
by Cassandra Austen
circa 1810
NPG 3630
Charles William Vane-Stewart, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry
by Sir Thomas Lawrence
1812
NPG 6171
George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron
replica by Thomas Phillips
circa 1835 (1813)
NPG 142
King George IV
by Sir Thomas Lawrence
circa 1814
NPG 123
King George IV
after Sir Thomas Lawrence
(1815)
NPG 2503
Percy Bysshe Shelley
by Amelia Curran
1819
NPG 1234
John Clare
by William Hilton
1820
NPG 1469
The Trial of Queen Caroline 1820
by Sir George Hayter
1820-1823
NPG 999
John Keats
by Joseph Severn
1821-1823, dated 1821
NPG 58
Sir Walter Scott, 1st Bt
by Sir Edwin Henry Landseer
circa 1824
NPG 391
William Wilberforce
by Sir Thomas Lawrence
1828
NPG 3
The House of Commons, 1833
by Sir George Hayter
1833-1843
NPG 54
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
by Richard Rothwell
exhibited 1840
NPG 1235
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