Making art
Portraits that show painters, sculptors and photographers in the act of making art. Explore the full list here.
Edward Collier
by Edward Collier
1683
NPG 6069
Grinling Gibbons
after Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt
based on a work of circa 1690
NPG 2925
Michael Dahl
by Michael Dahl
1691
NPG 3822
Sir Joshua Reynolds
by Sir Joshua Reynolds
circa 1747-1749
NPG 41
Rhoda (née Delaval), Lady Astley
attributed to Arthur Pond
circa 1750
NPG 5253
Mary Moser
by George Romney
circa 1770-1771
NPG 6641
John Opie
by John Opie
1785
NPG 47
William Holman Hunt
by John Ballantyne
1865
NPG 2555
Sir Edwin Landseer
by John Ballantyne
circa 1865
NPG 835
Sir Francis Grant
by John Ballantyne
1866
NPG 5239
William Powell Frith
by William Powell Frith
1867
NPG 1738
Gerald Tyrwhitt-Wilson, 14th Baron Berners
by Rex Whistler
1929
NPG 5050
Arthur Hayward
by Arthur Hayward
1933
NPG 5825
Hewlett Johnson; Jacob Epstein
by Felix H. Man
1943
NPG P15
Pauline Boty
by Michael Ward
13 January 1964
NPG x137328
John Randall Bratby; Josephine ('Joey') Pleasence (née Crombie)
by John Randall Bratby
1967
NPG 6555
Trupti Patel; Dhruva Mistry
by Anne-Katrin Purkiss
June 1991
NPG x39327
'Self-Portrait with Charlie' (David Hockney; Charles Dare Scheips)
by David Hockney
2005
NPG 6819