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Art, Invention & Thought: the Romantics
This room has as its central focus a significant body of portraits of Romantic poets and figures from the Regency period. A portrait of Wordsworth, flanked either side by portraits of Mary Wollstencraft and her later husband William Godwin dominate one wall. On the wall opposite there is a portrait of Byron, and the room also includes portraits of Mary Shelley, Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Scott, Burns and in a pastel case Jane Austen. Portraits of Davy and Jenner hang either side of the doorway and one corner of the room includes portraits of Turner, Constable, Blake, Flaxman and Fuseli.
26 portraits on display in Room 18 at the National Portrait Gallery
by Lemuel Francis Abbott
oil on canvas, 1785
On display in Room 18 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 98
by Alexander Nasmyth
oil on canvas, circa 1821-1822 (1787)
On display in Room 18 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 46
by John Boultbee
oil on canvas, circa 1788-1790
On display in Room 18 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 5949
by Thomas Hardy
oil on canvas, before 1791
On display in Room 18 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 13
by Laurent Dabos
oil on canvas, circa 1791
On display in Room 18 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 6805
by Peter Vandyke
oil on canvas, 1795
On display in Room 18 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 192
John Flaxman; Thomas Alphonso Hayley
by George Romney
oil on canvas, 1795
On display in Room 18 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 101
by Peter Vandyke
oil on canvas, 1795
On display in Room 18 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 193
by Ramsay Richard Reinagle
oil on canvas, circa 1799
On display in Room 18 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 1786
by John Opie
oil on canvas, circa 1800
On display in Room 18 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 882
by Henry Howard
oil on canvas, 1803
On display in Room 18 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 4591
by James Northcote
oil on canvas, 1803
On display in Room 18 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 62
by Thomas Phillips
oil on canvas, 1807
On display in Room 18 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 212
by Amelia Curran
oil on canvas, 1819
On display in Room 18 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 1234
by William Hilton
oil on canvas, 1820
On display in Room 18 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 1469
by Joseph Severn
oil on canvas, 1821-1823, dated 1821
On display in Room 18 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 58
by Sir Edwin Henry Landseer
oil on panel, circa 1824
On display in Room 18 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 391
by Edward Hodges Baily
marble bust, 1824
On display in Room 18 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 6376
by Georgiana Margaretta Zornlin
oil on canvas, 1825
On display in Room 18 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 510
by Sir Francis Leggatt Chantrey
marble bust, 1832
On display in Room 18 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 3956
George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron
replica by Thomas Phillips
oil on canvas, circa 1835 (1813)
On display in Room 18 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 142
by Thomas Phillips
oil on canvas, 1835
On display in Room 18 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 5963
by John Linnell
oil on canvas, 1838
On display in Room 18 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 6344
by Patric Park
marble bust, exhibited 1840
On display in Room 18 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 133
by Richard Rothwell
oil on canvas, exhibited 1840
On display in Room 18 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 1235
by Benjamin Robert Haydon
oil on canvas, 1842
On display in Room 18 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 1857
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