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A National Portrait: Britain 1919-59
The largest room on the first floor, this strikingly beautiful modern space with an undulating ceiling displays paintings on clear glass walls from the period after the Great War up to the end of the 1950s. One side of the space is devoted to the period after the 1st World War to the onset of the 2nd World War, with strong selections of portraits from the Bloomsbury set. The curved end wall focusses on the 2nd World War, whilst the other long wall concentrates on the post-war period. Room introductionRoom 31: showcaseTake a look around
91 portraits on display in Room 31 at the National Portrait Gallery
by Harold Gilman
oil on cardboard, circa 1911-1912
On display in Room 31 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 6879
by Duncan Grant
oil on panel, 1912
On display in Room 31 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 5802
by Vanessa Bell (née Stephen)
oil on panel, 1912
On display in Room 31 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 6684
by Robert Polhill Bevan
oil on canvas, 1913-1914
On display in Room 31 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 5201
Stanislawa Bevan (née de Karlowska)
by Harold Gilman
oil on canvas, circa 1913
On display in Room 31 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 6878
by Spencer Frederick Gore
oil on canvas, 1914
On display in Room 31 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 4981
by Henry Lamb
oil on panel, 1914
On display in Room 31 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 4432
by Malcolm Drummond
oil on canvas, circa 1914-1918
On display in Room 31 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 6446
Edward Alexander ('Aleister') Crowley
by Leon Engers Kennedy
oil on canvas, 1917-18
On display in Room 31 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 6630
by Duncan Grant
oil on canvas, circa 1918
On display in Room 31 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 4331
by Ambrose McEvoy
oil on canvas, 1919
On display in Room 31 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 1894
by Augustus Edwin John
oil on canvas, 1919
On display in Room 31 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 6095
by Meredith Frampton
oil on canvas, 1919
On display in Room 31 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 6339
Stanislawa Bevan (née de Karlowska)
by Robert Polhill Bevan
oil on canvas, 1920
On display in Room 31 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 5202
by Dora Carrington
oil on canvas, 1920
On display in Room 31 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 4698
by Reginald Grenville Eves
oil on canvas, 1921
On display in Room 31 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 2608
by Emile Antoine Bourdelle
bronze bust, 1925 (1922)
On display in Room 31 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 2099
Sir (Francis) Osbert Sacheverell Sitwell, 5th Bt
by Frank Owen Dobson
bronze head, 1994 (1922)
On display in Room 31 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 6321
by Karel Vogel
painted plaster head, circa 1924-1939
On display in Room 31 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 6244
by Stephen Tomlin
bronze head, 1924
On display in Room 31 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 6889
by Glyn Philpot
oil on canvas, 1925
On display in Room 31 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG L184
by Maurice Lambert
aluminium head, 1985 (circa 1926-1927)
On display in Room 31 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 5801
by Walter Richard Sickert
oil on canvas, 1927
On display in Room 31 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 4438
by Paule Vézelay (Marjorie Watson-Williams)
oil on canvas, circa 1927-1929
On display in Room 31 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 6003
by Mark Gertler
oil on canvas, 1927
On display in Room 31 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 6534
Natalie Bevan (née Ackenhausen, later Denny) ('Supper (Natalie Denny)')
by Mark Gertler
oil on canvas, 1928
On display in Room 31 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 6877
by Ernest Procter
oil on millboard, 1929
On display in Room 31 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 3861
by Sir John Longstaff
oil on canvas, circa 1930
On display in Room 31 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 4201
by John Banting
oil on board, 1930s
On display in Room 31 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 5826
by Paul Hamann
bronze life-mask, 1930
On display in Room 31 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 5404
by Sir John Lavery
oil on canvas, 1931
On display in Room 31 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 2959
by Stephen Tomlin
lead bust, 1931
On display in Room 31 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 3882
Ernest Rutherford, Baron Rutherford
by Sir James Gunn
oil on canvas, 1932
On display in Room 31 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 2935
Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin
by Reginald Grenville Eves
oil on canvas, circa 1933
On display in Room 31 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 3551
by Sir William Reid Dick
stone bust, 1933
On display in Room 31 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 3062
by Sir Oswald Birley
oil on canvas, circa 1933
On display in Room 31 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 4013
by Ceri Richards
oil on composition board, 1934
On display in Room 31 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 4909
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by John Banting
oil on canvas, circa 1934
On display in Room 31 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 6922
William Maxwell Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook
by Walter Richard Sickert
oil on canvas, 1935
On display in Room 31 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 5173
by Jacques-Emile Blanche
oil on canvas, 1935
On display in Room 31 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 3883
by Walter Richard Sickert
oil on canvas, 1935
On display in Room 31 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 3134
John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir
by Thomas John Clapperton
bronze bust, 1935
On display in Room 31 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 3636
by Augustus Edwin John
oil on canvas, circa 1937-1938
On display in Room 31 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG L213
by Sir William Reid Dick
bronze bust, 1938
On display in Room 31 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 4164
by Delmar Banner
oil on canvas, 1938
On display in Room 31 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 3635
by Thomas Burke
oil on canvas, circa 1938
On display in Room 31 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 6832
Laurence Stephen ('L.S.') Lowry
by Laurence Stephen ('L.S.') Lowry
oil on canvas, 1938
On display in Room 31 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG L224
by Henry Lamb
oil on canvas, circa 1939
On display in Room 31 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 4279
by Hein Heckroth
oil on board, 1939
On display in Room 31 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 5907
by McClelland Barclay
oil on canvas, 1940
On display in Room 31 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 6054
by Wilfrid Gabriel de Glehn
oil on canvas, 1940
On display in Room 31 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 6737
by Donald Gilbert
bronze bust, 1943
On display in Room 31 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 4125
by Kenneth Green
oil on canvas, 1943
On display in Room 31 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 5136
by Francis Owen ('Frank') Salisbury
oil on canvas, 1943
On display in Room 31 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 3688
by Anthony Devas
oil on canvas, 1944
On display in Room 31 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 6726
by Anna Katrina Zinkeisen
oil on canvas, circa 1944
On display in Room 31 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 5927
by Anna Katrina Zinkeisen
oil on canvas, circa 1944
On display in Room 31 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 5884
by Peter Lambda
bronze head, 1945
On display in Room 31 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 4993
by Thomas Cantrell Dugdale
oil on canvas, circa 1945
On display in Room 31 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 3921
by Vera Mukhina
metal bust, 1945
On display in Room 31 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 4585
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