Books and libraries
Portraits that include a book, a collection of books or a library. Explore the full list here.
Nicholas Ridley
by Unknown artist
late sixteenth century
NPG 296
King Edward VI and the Pope
by Unknown artist
circa 1575
NPG 4165
Sir William Petty
by Isaac Fuller
circa 1651
NPG 2924
Catharine Macaulay (née Sawbridge)
by Robert Edge Pine
circa 1775
NPG 5856
John Keats
by Joseph Severn
1821-1823
NPG 58
The Brontë Sisters (Anne Brontë; Emily Brontë; Charlotte Brontë)
by Patrick Branwell Brontë
circa 1834
NPG 1725
Angela Burdett-Coutts, Baroness Burdett-Coutts
by Unknown artist
circa 1840
NPG 6181
Edward William Lane
by Clara Sophia Lane
1850
NPG 3099
David Wilkie Wynfield
by David Wilkie Wynfield
1860s
NPG P97
Rudyard Kipling
by Sir Philip Burne-Jones, 2nd Bt
1899
NPG 1863
Vanessa Bell
by Duncan Grant
1917
NPG 5541
Sir Bruce Stirling Ingram
by Angus McBean
NPG P1302
(Israel) Maurice Edelman
by Bern Schwartz
October 1975
NPG P1165
Margaret Busby
by Mayotte Magnus
October 1977
NPG x18607
Sir Kazuo Ishiguro
by Peter Edwards
1995
NPG 6332
Historians of 'Past and Present' (standing: Eric John Ernest Hobsbawm; Rodney Howard Hilton; Lawrence Stone; Sir Keith Vivian Thomas; seated: (John Edward) Christopher Hill; Sir John Elliott; Joan Thirsk)
by Stephen Frederick Godfrey Farthing
1999
NPG 6518
Daniel Brown
by Gemma Booth
2004
NPG x127399
Malala Yousafzai
by Shirin Neshat
2018
NPG 7053