Dame Elizabeth Taylor (1932-2011), Actress
Sitter in 18 portraits
Born in London to American parents living in Britain, she made her film debut in 1942. Her career moved with increasing acclaim from roles as a child in films such as National Velvet (1944) and Little Women (1948) to parts in Tennessee Williams' adaptations like Suddenly Last Summer (1959). Taylor fell in love with Richard Burton on the set of Cleopatra (1962) and married him in 1964. They appeared together in several films including Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) for which she won a second Academy Award and The Taming of the Shrew (1967). Latterly she devoted her energies to raising fund for AIDS research. She was created a Dame in 1999.
Dame Elizabeth Taylor with her children (Michael Wilding Jr, Christopher Wilding and Liza Todd)
by Eve Arnold
bromide print, 1963
NPG P767
by Charles Adams
bromide print, 1950
NPG x88180
by Norman Parkinson
C-type colour print, mid 1950s
NPG x34522
by Cecil Beaton
bromide print on white card mount, 1954
NPG x14216
Dame Elizabeth Taylor as 'Kate' with seven other members of the cast
by Bob Penn
R-type colour print, 1967
NPG x88698
Noël Coward; Dame Elizabeth Taylor; Richard Burton; Unknown woman
by Jane Bown
bromide print, 1968
NPG x28637
Richard Burton; Dame Elizabeth Taylor
by Terry O'Neill
bromide fibre print, 1971
NPG x126133
David Bowie; Dame Elizabeth Taylor
by Terry O'Neill
bromide print, 1975
NPG x88495
Dame Elizabeth Taylor; John Warner
by Terry O'Neill
bromide print, 1976
NPG x88496
by Norman Parkinson
C-type colour print on card mount, 1977
NPG x28805
by Andy Warhol
offset lithograph, 1967
On display in Room 32 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 6051
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