Panel
A rigid surface of metal, card or wood used to paint on. A wide range of prepared woods were used in the past, oak being the most traditional in much of Northern Europe. Panels were the most popular supports for easel-painting in Britain until canvas took over in the seventeenth century. Today a wide range of economical wood or composition boards are used as painting supports, either painted on direct or, more usually, primed with gesso, an egg emulsion or with an oil undercoat.
King Edward IV
by Unknown English artist
circa 1540
NPG 3542
Queen Mary I
by Master John
1544
NPG 428
Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
after William Scrots
circa 1570-1580s, based on a work of 1546
NPG 4952
Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester
by Unknown Anglo-Netherlandish artist
circa 1575
NPG 447
King James I of England and VI of Scotland
by Unknown artist
circa 1590
NPG 1188
Unknown woman, formerly known as Florence Nightingale
by Augustus Leopold Egg
NPG 1578
Robert Vernon
by George Jones, and Henry Collen
1848
NPG 4513
Frederick Burnaby
by James Jacques Joseph Tissot
1870
NPG 2642
Isaac Rosenberg
by Isaac Rosenberg
1915
NPG 4129
Queen Elizabeth II
by Pietro Annigoni
1969
NPG 4706
No work found
Johnson Gideon Beharry
by Emma Wesley
2006
NPG 6803