Masks and disguises
Browse through the selected illustrative portraits below, or explore a special feature relating to portraiture and disguise. Explore the full list here.
David Garrick
studio of Johan Joseph Zoffany
1763
NPG 1167
Sarah Siddons (née Kemble) ('Mrs Siddons with the Emblems of Tragedy')
by Sir William Beechey
1793
NPG 5159
Mary Anderson (Mrs de Navarro) as Juliet in 'Romeo & Juliet'
by Henry Van der Weyde
1884
NPG x75
Unity More (Unity Kathleen Haig (née Morten))
by Bassano Ltd
6 July 1912
NPG x101645
Renée Kelly
by Bassano Ltd
2 August 1912
NPG x101805
Kathlene Martyn
by E.O. Hoppé
circa 1917
NPG Ax132930
Ogna Hicks
by Bassano Ltd
27 January 1921
NPG x101195
Viola Tree
by Bassano Ltd
6 January 1923
NPG x34400
Anna May Wong
by Dudley Glanfield
25 April 1929
NPG x126864
Nicolai Poliakoff (Poliakovs) ('Coco the Clown')
by Humphrey Spender
1935
NPG x14703
Victor Musgrave
by Unknown photographer
late 1940s
NPG x134025
George Hoole as 'Spotty Muldoon'
by Lewis Morley
May 1965
NPG x38941
Kathleen Biggar
by Yevonde
circa 1968
NPG x31544
Angus McBean
by Peter Everard Smith
19 May 1987
NPG x38394
Theo Crosby
by Graham Miller
1988
NPG x132386
Steven Berkoff
by Alastair Thain
1988
NPG x126917
Philip Pullman
by Eamonn McCabe
October 2001
NPG P958
Banksy
by James Pfaff
2003
NPG x131404