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Introduction: Queen Victoria
This large room on the first floor, remodelled by Piers Gough of CZWG in 1996, introduces a sequence of rooms stretching through the whole of the Victorian reign. Full-length portraits of Victoria and Albert flank a sculpture of the couple in Anglo-Saxon dress, lent by H.M. The Queen. Elsewhere is a painting of a Private View of the Old Masters Exhibition at the Royal Academy and a painting of The Landing of HRH The Princess Alexandra at Gravesend. A sculpture wall in three tiers of plinths display 15 plaster and terracotta busts, including portraits of Tennyson and Darwin.
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27 portraits on display in Room 21 at the National Portrait Gallery
replica by Sir George Hayter
oil on canvas, 1863 (1838)
On display in Room 21 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 1250
replica by Sir Francis Leggatt Chantrey
marble bust, 1841 (1839)
On display in Room 21 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 1716
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
by John Partridge
oil on canvas, 1844
On display in Room 21 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 941
'The Fine Arts Commissioners, 1846'
by John Partridge
oil on paper, circa 1846
On display in Room 21 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 343a
by George Gammon Adams
plaster cast of bust, 1853
On display in Room 21 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 1198
by William Behnes
plaster cast of bust, circa 1855
On display in Room 21 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 1300
Princess Victoria, Duchess of Kent and Strathearn
reduced version by Franz Xaver Winterhalter
oil on canvas, (1857)
On display in Room 21 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 2554
Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha
replica by Franz Xaver Winterhalter
oil on canvas, 1867 (1859)
On display in Room 21 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 237
by Thomas Jones Barker
oil on canvas, 1859
On display in Room 21 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 5851
by Sir Joseph Edgar Boehm, 1st Bt
plaster cast of bust, 1863
On display in Room 21 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 973
by Thomas Woolner
plaster cast of bust, 1866
On display in Room 21 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 1668
by Sir Joseph Edgar Boehm, 1st Bt
plaster cast of bust, 1875
On display in Room 21 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 865
Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury
by Sir Joseph Edgar Boehm, 1st Bt
plaster cast of bust, 1875
On display in Room 21 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 862
by (Edward) Onslow Ford
plaster cast of bust, circa 1880s
On display in Room 21 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 1330
Robert Cornelis Napier, 1st Baron Napier of Magdala
by Sir Joseph Edgar Boehm, 1st Bt
plaster cast of bust, 1880s
On display in Room 21 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 863
by Sir Joseph Edgar Boehm, 1st Bt
plaster cast of bust, 1881
On display in Room 21 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 868
by Sir Joseph Edgar Boehm, 1st Bt
terracotta bust, 1883
On display in Room 21 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 761
by Sir Joseph Edgar Boehm, 1st Bt
terracotta bust, 1883
On display in Room 21 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 787
by Sir Joseph Edgar Boehm, 1st Bt
plaster cast of bust, 1883
On display in Room 21 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 859
Private View of the Old Masters Exhibition, Royal Academy, 1888
by Henry Jamyn Brooks
oil on canvas, 1889
On display in Room 21 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 1833
(William) Edward Hartpole Lecky
by Sir Joseph Edgar Boehm, 1st Bt
terracotta bust, circa 1890
On display in Room 21 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 1360
by Frederick Winter
plaster cast of bust, 1891
On display in Room 21 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 1742
by Mary Grant
plaster cast of bust, 1892
On display in Room 21 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 1087
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson
by Francis John Williamson
plaster cast of bust, 1893
On display in Room 21 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 1178
Queen Victoria ('The Coronation of Queen Victoria, 28 June 1838')
by Henry Thomas Ryall, and by Henry Bryan Hall, after Sir George Hayter
mixed-method engraving, published 1842
On display in Room 21 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG D9968
The Great Industrial Exhibition of 1851. Plate 3. The British Nave.
by Joseph Nash
hand-coloured lithograph, published 1851
On display in Room 21 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG D10670
Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha; Queen Victoria
after a marble by William Theed the Younger
plaster cast of statue, 1868 (1863-1867)
On display in Room 21 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG L179
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