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Room 28
Later Victorian Arts
Room 28This room sees portraits hung at projected angles from the wall, creating a zig-zag pattern, allowing pairs of portraits to be seen together. Portraits of the dramatist Gilbert and composer collaborator Sullivan are brought together in this way. Other highlights in the room are a portrait of Louise Jopling by Millais and on the end wall Lady Colin Campbell by Boldini. Sir Henry Irving and Robert Louis Stevenson are included in sets of bronze busts on plinths and there is a room length wallcase for special displays, currently on is Mrs Patrick Campbell 1865 - 1940 and William Holman Hunt 1827 - 1910.

23 portraits on display in Room 28 at the National Portrait Gallery

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5313

Alphonse Legros

by Aimé-Jules Dalou
bronze head, circa 1876
On display in Room 28 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 5313

6612

Louise Jane Jopling (née Goode, later Rowe)

by Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Bt
oil on canvas, 1879
On display in Room 28 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 6612

1560

Sir Henry Irving

by Jules Bastien-Lepage
oil on canvas, 1880
On display in Room 28 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 1560

5689

Sir Henry Irving

copy by (Edward) Onslow Ford
bronze bust, (1883)
On display in Room 28 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 5689

1697

William Ernest Henley

by Auguste Rodin
bronze head, 1884-1886
On display in Room 28 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 1697

3625

Adelina Patti

by James Sant
oil on canvas, exhibited 1886
On display in Room 28 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 3625

1028

Robert Louis Stevenson

by Sir William Blake Richmond
oil on canvas, 1887
On display in Room 28 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 1028

1325

Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan

by Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Bt
oil on canvas, 1888
On display in Room 28 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 1325

4492

Jerome Klapka Jerome

by Solomon Joseph Solomon
oil on panel, circa 1889
On display in Room 28 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 4492

6213

Alfred Waterhouse

by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema
oil on canvas, 1891
On display in Room 28 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 6213

1957a

Frederic Leighton, Baron Leighton

after Sir Thomas Brock
bronze cast after plaster bust, 1923 (1892)
On display in Room 28 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 1957a

2454

Robert Louis Stevenson

by Allen Hutchinson
bronze head, 1893
On display in Room 28 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 2454

1991

Aubrey Vincent Beardsley

by Jacques-Emile Blanche
oil on canvas, 1895
On display in Room 28 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 1991

1630

Gertrude Elizabeth (née Blood), Lady Colin Campbell

by Giovanni Boldini
oil on canvas, circa 1897
On display in Room 28 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 1630

3107

Charles Haslewood Shannon

by Charles Haslewood Shannon
oil on canvas, 1897
On display in Room 28 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 3107

1864

Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, 1st Bt

by Sir Philip Burne-Jones, 2nd Bt
oil on canvas, 1898
On display in Room 28 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 1864

3106

Charles de Sousy Ricketts

by Charles Haslewood Shannon
oil on canvas, 1898
On display in Room 28 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 3106

1863

Rudyard Kipling

by Sir Philip Burne-Jones, 2nd Bt
oil on canvas, 1899
On display in Room 28 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 1863

2803

William Holman Hunt

by Sir William Blake Richmond
oil on canvas, 1900
On display in Room 28 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 2803

5140

Charles Francis Annesley Voysey

by Harold Speed
oil on canvas, 1905
On display in Room 28 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 5140