Body colour
Watercolour which is mixed with white pigment to make it opaque. It is often used on drawings on tinted paper or watercolours to show the contrast with the transparency of pure watercolour (see also gouache)
Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban
by Nicholas Hilliard
1578
NPG 6761
Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex
attributed to studio of Nicholas Hilliard
circa 1595
NPG 6241
Ludovick Stuart, 2nd Duke of Lennox and Duke of Richmond
by Isaac Oliver
circa 1605
NPG 3063
John Wolcot
by Walter Stephens Lethbridge
circa 1817
NPG 156
Brook Taylor
probably by Louis Goupy
1720
NPG 1920
The Audience of the Grand Signor (A Sultan of Turkey receiving a British Ambassador)
by Unknown artist, associated with Francis Smith, and Robert Pranker
circa 1755-1765
NPG 3797
Joseph Farington
by James Nixon
1765
NPG 6306
James Bruce
by John Smart
1776
NPG 5008
Mary Anne Clarke (née Thompson)
by Adam Buck
1803
NPG 2793
Robert Southey
by Edward Nash
1820
NPG 4028
Joseph Duveen, Baron Duveen
by Dorothy Elaine Vicaji
1920s?
NPG 6499
Denis Winston Healey, Baron Healey ('Strings Attached')
by Gerald Scarfe
1976
NPG 6019