Brush
A basic tool of animal or synthetic fibres which comes in a variety of shapes and sizes. For delicate work with a thin paint such as watercolour, a brush made from sable hair is the best quality. For oil painting a stiffer type of brush is often used such as white hog bristle.
Sir Joshua Reynolds
by Sir Joshua Reynolds
circa 1747-1749
NPG 41
Agostino Carlini; Francesco Bartolozzi; Giovanni Battista Cipriani
by John Francis Rigaud
1777
NPG 3186
George Romney
by George Romney
1784
NPG 959
Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg
by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg
1805-1810
NPG 2493
J.M.W. Turner
by Charles West Cope
circa 1828
NPG 2943
George Arnald
by George Arnald
1831
NPG 5254
Coventry Kersey Deighton Patmore
by John Singer Sargent
1894
NPG 1079
The Selecting Jury of the New English Art Club, 1909
by Sir William Orpen
1909
NPG 2556
The Meeting, Royal Academy of Arts
by Leonard Rosoman
1979-1984
NPG 5740
David Bowie
by Stephen Finer
1994
NPG 6336
Sir John Hurt
by Stuart Pearson Wright
2000
NPG 6541
Three Royal Court Theatre Directors (Katie Mitchell; Stephen Daldry; Ian Rickson)
by Justin Mortimer
2004
NPG 6668