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The Road to Reform
This largest room on the top floor has two large group portraits dealing with reform dominating the display. On the end wall is the House of Commons, 1833, commemorating the passing of the Great Reform Act in 1832, whilst the Anti-Slavery Convention, 1840 dominates another wall, with a portrait of Wilberforce closeby. On the wall opposite there is a full-length portrait of the parliamentary reformer Sir Frances Burdett, one of a number of portraits in the room by Sir Thomas Lawrence. There is also a striking two-tier plinth of white marble busts at the entrance to the room.
34 portraits on display in Room 20 at the National Portrait Gallery
studio of Sir Joshua Reynolds
oil on canvas, circa 1769 or later
On display in Room 20 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 655
by George Romney
oil on canvas, 1785-1788
On display in Room 20 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 1551
Elizabeth (née Farren), Countess of Derby
by Anne Seymour Damer (née Conway)
marble bust, circa 1788
On display in Room 20 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 4469
by Sir Thomas Lawrence
oil on canvas, circa 1790
On display in Room 20 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 5498
Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool
by Sir Thomas Lawrence
oil on canvas, 1790-1800
On display in Room 20 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 6307
by Sir Thomas Lawrence
oil on canvas, circa 1793
On display in Room 20 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 3820
Henry Richard Fox (later Vassall), 3rd Baron Holland
by François Xavier Fabre
oil on canvas, 1795
On display in Room 20 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 3660
William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville
by John Hoppner
oil on canvas, circa 1800
On display in Room 20 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 318
Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth
by Sir William Beechey
oil on canvas, engraved 1803
On display in Room 20 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 5774
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne
by Henry Walton
oil on canvas, feigned oval, circa 1805
On display in Room 20 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 178
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
by Sir Thomas Lawrence
oil on canvas, circa 1805
On display in Room 20 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 5185
by Sir Thomas Lawrence
oil on canvas, circa 1806-1810
On display in Room 20 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 1171
Robert Stewart, 2nd Marquess of Londonderry (Lord Castlereagh)
by Sir Thomas Lawrence
oil on canvas, 1809-1810
On display in Room 20 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 891
by Sir Francis Leggatt Chantrey
marble bust, 1818
On display in Room 20 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 649
by Lewis Alexander Goblet
marble bust, 1820
On display in Room 20 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 5039
Charles Long, 1st Baron Farnborough
by Sir Francis Leggatt Chantrey
marble bust, 1820
On display in Room 20 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 2090
attributed to Thomas Phillips
oil on canvas, circa 1820
On display in Room 20 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 4137
by Sir Francis Leggatt Chantrey
marble bust, 1841 (1820)
On display in Room 20 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 993
by Sir Francis Leggatt Chantrey
marble bust, 1821
On display in Room 20 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 282
Robert Stewart, 2nd Marquess of Londonderry (Lord Castlereagh)
by Sir Francis Leggatt Chantrey
marble bust, 1822
On display in Room 20 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 687
by Henry William Pickersgill
oil on canvas, 1822
On display in Room 20 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 412
by Thomas Stewardson
oil on canvas, 1824
On display in Room 20 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 365
Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux
by Sir Thomas Lawrence
oil on panel, 1825
On display in Room 20 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 3136
by Sir Thomas Lawrence
oil on canvas, 1825
On display in Room 20 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 1832
by Sir Thomas Lawrence
oil on canvas, 1828
On display in Room 20 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 3
by Angus Fletcher
marble bust, circa 1829
On display in Room 20 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 5198
George Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Duke of Sutherland
by Sir Francis Leggatt Chantrey
marble bust, 1830
On display in Room 20 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 5597
possibly by George Cooke
oil on canvas, circa 1831
On display in Room 20 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 1549
by Sir George Hayter
oil on canvas, 1833-1843
On display in Room 20 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 54
by Samuel Drummond
oil on canvas, exhibited 1833
On display in Room 20 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 1959
replica by Henry Perronet Briggs
oil on canvas, 1840 (1833)
On display in Room 20 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 1475
The Anti-Slavery Society Convention, 1840
by Benjamin Robert Haydon
oil on canvas, 1841
On display in Room 20 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 599
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by John Hoppner
oil on canvas, 1805
On display in Room 20 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG L249
by Sir Francis Leggatt Chantrey
marble bust, 1816
On display in Room 20 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG L227
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