Making music
Portraits that show musicians making music or holding musical instruments. Explore the full list here.
Sir Henry Unton
by Unknown artist
circa 1596
NPG 710
'The Music Party'
by Philip Mercier
1733
NPG 1556
The Shudi Family Group
by Marcus Tuscher
circa 1742
NPG 5776
Charles Rousseau Burney
by Edward Francisco Burney
circa 1775-1780
NPG 1860
Johann Christian Bach
by Thomas Gainsborough
circa 1776
NPG 5557
Elizabeth Bannister (née Harpur)
by John Russell
1799
NPG 1770
Patrick Byrne ('Irish Harper')
by David Octavius Hill, and Robert Adamson
1843-1848
NPG P6(150)
Sir James Hope Grant
by Sir Francis Grant
circa 1861
NPG 783
Caroline Blanche Elizabeth (née FitzRoy), Lady Lindsay
by Joseph Middleton Jopling
1874
NPG 5401
Alfred James Hipkins
by Edith J. Hipkins
1898
NPG 2129
Harriet Cohen
by Fred Daniels
circa 1921
NPG P381
Jelly D'Aranyi
by Charles Geoffroy-Dechaume
1920s?
NPG 5735
Sir Thomas Beecham, 2nd Bt
by David Wynne
1957
NPG 4221
The Beatles (George Harrison; John Lennon; Ringo Starr)
by David Redfern
3 October 1964
NPG x128617
George Melly
by Maggi Hambling
1998
NPG 6439
Lindsay Quartet (Peter Cropper; Ronald Birks; Robin Ireland; Bernard Gregor-Smith)
by György Gordon
2003
NPG 6649
Courtney Pine
by Richard Saker
31 October 2013
NPG x138159
Don Letts
by Richard Saker
2015
NPG x199087