Death mask
An impression or cast of the face of a deceased person, usually made by oiling the skin and taking a plaster cast of the features. Such masks could be used either in a funerary effigy or as a model for a posthumous portrait.
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Oliver Cromwell
by Unknown artist
possibly late 17th century
NPG 4025
Oliver Cromwell
by Unknown artist
possibly late 17th century
NPG 4025
Sir Isaac Newton
possibly after John Michael Rysbrack
after 1727
NPG 2081
Samuel Johnson
by William Cumberland Cruikshank, and James Hoskins
1784
NPG 4685
Sir Thomas Lawrence
by Unknown artist
1830
NPG 1634
Joseph Mallord William Turner
attributed to Thomas Woolner
1851
NPG 1664
Thomas Carlyle
by Sir Alfred Gilbert
1881
NPG 1361
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
by D Brucciani & Co
1882
NPG 1699
Cecil John Rhodes
by John Tweed
after 1902
NPG 1730
Ellen Terry
by Unknown artist
after 1928
NPG 3657
George Moore
by L. Godon
1933
NPG 2622
Alan Rawsthorne
by Roy Noakes
1971
NPG 6333
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