Lady Antonia Fraser (née Pakenham) (1932-), Writer
Sitter associated with 18 portraits
Historian, novelist and biographer. Her publications range from scholarly biographies, such as Mary, Queen of Scots (1969) and Marie Antoinette (2001) to detective fiction. She has won many awards, including the Wolfson History prize for The Weaker Vessel (1984), her study of seventeenth-century women. Fraser married the playwright Harold Pinter in 1980. She was awarded the Historical Association's Norton Medlicott Medal for services to history in 2000 and was made Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2011.
Lady Antonia Fraser (née Pakenham) with her daughter, Natasha
by Olwyn Bowey
oil on canvas, 1966
NPG 6843
Lady Antonia Fraser (née Pakenham); Sir Michael de Courcy Fraser Holroyd
by Lord Snowdon
vintage bromide print, 29 April 1980
NPG P808
by Bassano
whole-plate film negative, 24 June 1937
NPG x80942
by Bassano
whole-plate film negative, 24 June 1937
NPG x80943
by Bassano
whole-plate film negative, 24 June 1937
NPG x80944
Lady Antonia Fraser (née Pakenham)
by Madame Yevonde
black and white reprint, 1956
NPG x131734
Lady Antonia Fraser (née Pakenham)
by Cecil Beaton
bromide print on white card mount, September 1956
NPG x14082
Lady Antonia Fraser (née Pakenham)
by Mark Gerson
modern bromide print from an original negative, September 1966
NPG x131997
by Thomas Patrick John Anson, 5th Earl of Lichfield
archival inkjet print, February 1967
NPG x128489
Lady Antonia Fraser (née Pakenham)
by Mark Gerson
modern bromide print, 1972
NPG x131998
Lady Antonia Fraser (née Pakenham); Thomas Frank Dermot Pakenham
by Bassano
whole-plate film negative, 24 June 1937
NPG x80945
Lady Antonia Fraser (née Pakenham)
by Lenare
cellulose acetate negative, 10 May 1950
NPG x4416
Lady Antonia Fraser (née Pakenham)
by Lenare
cellulose acetate negative, 10 May 1950
NPG x4417
Lady Antonia Fraser (née Pakenham)
by Lenare
cellulose acetate negative, 10 May 1950
NPG x4418
Lady Antonia Fraser (née Pakenham)
by Lenare
cellulose acetate negative, 10 May 1950
NPG x4419
Lady Antonia Fraser (née Pakenham)
by Lenare
cellulose acetate negative, 10 May 1950
NPG x4420
Lady Antonia Fraser (née Pakenham)
by Lenare
cellulose acetate negative, 10 May 1950
NPG x4421
Lady Antonia Fraser (née Pakenham)
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by Eva Vermandel
C-type colour print, 10 October 2012
NPG x137229
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