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Art, Invention & Thought: Making the Modern World
This room includes a focus on those individuals who helped confirm Britain's status as a superpower and the world's richest nation, with portraits of the civil engineer Sir Marc Isambard Brunel and George Stephenson, inventor of the railway engine. Framing the entrance is a full length portrait of the actor Kean. The three siblings of the famous Kemble acting family - John Philip, Charles and Sarah (Siddons) are hung together on one wall
25 portraits on display in Room 19 at the National Portrait Gallery
by Gilbert Stuart
oil on canvas, feigned oval, circa 1785
On display in Room 19 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 49
by Gilbert Stuart
oil on canvas, 1785
On display in Room 19 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 349
attributed to John Downman
oil on copper, circa 1786
On display in Room 19 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 6091
by Gilbert Stuart
oil on canvas, 1787
On display in Room 19 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 50
by Sir Martin Archer Shee
oil on canvas, 1794
On display in Room 19 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 1093
by Lemuel Francis Abbott
oil on canvas, circa 1797
On display in Room 19 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 30
attributed to François Nicholas Mouchet
oil on canvas, 1810-1814
On display in Room 19 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 6342
by James Northcote
oil on canvas, 1812-1813, dated 1813
On display in Room 19 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 978
by Sir Thomas Lawrence
oil on canvas, 1812
On display in Room 19 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 6869
by John Bacon the Younger
marble and bronze bust, 1814
On display in Room 19 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 4887
Sir Thomas Stamford Bingley Raffles
by George Francis Joseph
oil on canvas, 1817
On display in Room 19 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 84
by James Northcote
oil on canvas, 1819
On display in Room 19 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 6088
by Thomas Phillips
oil on canvas, circa 1821
On display in Room 19 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG L241
Catherine Capell-Coningsby (née Stephens), Countess of Essex
by John Jackson
oil on canvas, feigned oval, circa 1822
On display in Room 19 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 702
by Charles Willson Peale
oil on canvas, 1824
On display in Room 19 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 2014
Study for 'Patrons and Lovers of Art'
by Pieter Christoffel Wonder
oil on canvas, 1826-1830
On display in Room 19 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 792
by Unknown artist
oil on canvas, circa 1827
On display in Room 19 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 5505
by John Jackson
oil on canvas, 1828
On display in Room 19 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 701
Study for 'Patrons and Lovers of Art'
by Pieter Christoffel Wonder
oil on canvas, circa 1830
On display in Room 19 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 795
by Unknown artist
oil on canvas, circa 1830
On display in Room 19 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 3686
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