Silhouette
Profile or shadow portrait filled in with black or a dark colour. A common pictorial technique in Europe in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, it was named after Etienne de Silhouette (1709–1767), a French finance minister who made paper cut-outs as a hobby.
George Onslow, 1st Earl of Onslow
by John Field
circa 1800-1810
NPG 5212
John Mayo
by John Miers
1818
NPG 4878
Henry Philip Hope
by Augustin Edouart
1829
NPG D440
John Mackenzie; Sir George Mackenzie
by Unknown artist
1830
NPG D451
Edward Lear
by Unknown artist
circa 1830s
NPG 1759
Mrs Robert Beveridge; Anne Beveridge; Andrew Beveridge; Hugh Beveridge; Robert Beveridge
by Augustin Edouart
6 February 1832
NPG D413
Sarah Siddons (née Kemble); (William Grattan) Tyrone Power as Dr O'Toole in 'The Irish Tutor'; (William Grattan) Tyrone Power
by Augustin Edouart
12 August 1832
NPG D396
Hermione Wilhelmina Fitzgerald (née Duncombe), Duchess of Leinster
by Harry Edwin
June 1887
NPG D540
Henry du Pré Labouchère
by Sir Francis Carruthers Gould ('F.C.G.')
circa 1900s-1912
NPG 2867
Jean Forbes-Robertson as Peter Pan in 'Peter Pan'
by Hubert Leslie
circa 1930?
NPG D505
Aneurin Bevan
by Harry Lawrence Oakley
mid 20th century
NPG D20558
Peggy Hickman
by Hubert Leslie
1974 (1968)
NPG D497