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Expansion and Empire
A large group portrait, the Secret of England's Greatness, testifying to Victorian Britain's confidence in its position as a world power greets visitors on entering this room. It is flanked either side by two portraits from the sequence of portraits of Arctic explorers by Stephen Pearce. Elsewhere in there is an area devoted to India and the Boer War in a group portrait of the Relief of Lucknow and portraits of Kitchener, Gordon and Baden-Powell, and on the opposite side of the room two large group portraits of Florence Nightingale at Scutari and Queen Victorian visiting wounded soldiers.Room introductionRoom 23: showcase Bodelwyddan Castle
25 portraits on display in Room 23 at the National Portrait Gallery
by Bernhard Smith
plaster cast of medallion, 1842
On display in Room 23 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 888
by Bernhard Smith
plaster cast of medallion, 1843
On display in Room 23 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 887
by Sir Francis Grant
oil on canvas, 1847
On display in Room 23 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 1559
Henry Hardinge, 1st Viscount Hardinge of Lahore
replica by Sir Francis Grant
oil on canvas, (1849)
On display in Room 23 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 437
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
by Francis Cruikshank
oil on canvas, circa 1855-1859
On display in Room 23 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 3953
Florence Nightingale receiving the Wounded at Scutari'
by Jerry Barrett
oil on canvas, circa 1856
On display in Room 23 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 4305
by George Frederic Watts
oil on canvas, 1856-1857
On display in Room 23 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 685
Stratford Canning, Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe
by George Frederic Watts
oil on panel, 1856-1857
On display in Room 23 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 684
Queen Victoria's First Visit to her Wounded Soldiers
by Jerry Barrett
oil on canvas, 1856
On display in Room 23 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 6203
The Mission of Mercy: Florence Nightingale receiving the Wounded at Scutari
by Jerry Barrett
oil on canvas, 1857
On display in Room 23 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 6202
Sir (Francis) Leopold McClintock
by Stephen Pearce
oil on canvas, 1859
On display in Room 23 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 1211
John Laird Mair Lawrence, 1st Baron Lawrence
by George Frederic Watts
oil on panel, 1862
On display in Room 23 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 1005
by Sir John Robert Steell
bronze bust, 1862
On display in Room 23 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 1748
by Thomas Jones Barker
oil on canvas, circa 1863
On display in Room 23 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 4969
by Thomas Brigstocke
oil on canvas, circa 1863
On display in Room 23 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 661
by Thomas Woolner
plaster cast of medallion, 1864
On display in Room 23 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 2071
by Albert Charles Challen
oil on panel, 1869
On display in Room 23 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 6856
by Frederic Leighton, Baron Leighton
oil on canvas, 1872-1885
On display in Room 23 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 1070
by Stephen Pearce
oil on canvas, 1877
On display in Room 23 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 1212
by Sir (William) Hamo Thornycroft
marble bust, 1880
On display in Room 23 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 6420
by Sir Joseph Edgar Boehm, 1st Bt
plaster cast of bust, circa 1885
On display in Room 23 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 864
Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum
by Sir Hubert von Herkomer, and Frederick Goodall
oil on canvas, 1890
On display in Room 23 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 1782
by Edward (Edouard) Lanteri
marble bust, 1902
On display in Room 23 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 4859
Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell
by Sir Hubert von Herkomer
oil on canvas, 1903
On display in Room 23 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 5991
by Daniel Albert Wehrschmidt
oil on canvas, 1905
On display in Room 23 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 2079
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