Art in art
Portraits that include paintings, photographs, drawings and sculpture within them. Explore the full list here.
Aletheia Talbot, Countess of Arundel
by Daniel Mytens
circa 1618
NPG 5293
Thomas Killigrew
by William Sheppard
1650
NPG 3795
Richard Gibson
by studio of Sir Peter Lely
circa 1658, based on a work of circa 1658
NPG 1975
Brook Taylor
probably by Louis Goupy
1720
NPG 1920
Francis Hayman; Grosvenor Bedford
by Francis Hayman
circa 1748-1750
NPG 217
John Hamilton Mortimer with a student
after John Hamilton Mortimer
circa 1765
NPG 234
Study for 'Patrons and Lovers of Art'
by Pieter Christoffel Wonder
1826-1830
NPG 792
George Arnald
by George Arnald
1831
NPG 5254
William Holman Hunt
by John Ballantyne
1865
NPG 2555
Carlo Pellegrini
attributed to Carlo Pellegrini
1877
NPG 2933
William Rothenstein
by William Rothenstein
1930
NPG 5000
Doris Zinkeisen
by Yevonde
January 1936
NPG P1838
Robert Colquhoun
by John Deakin
1950s
NPG P295
Leslie Caron
by Yousuf Karsh
1963
NPG P242
Diana Rigg
by J.S. Lewinski
September 1966
NPG P1057
Salman Rushdie ('The Moor')
by Bhupen Khakhar
1995
NPG 6352
David Hockney; Lucian Freud
by David Dawson
2002
NPG P1001
Frank Bowling
by Nicholas Sinclair
2014
NPG x199750