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431 portraits matching these criteria:
- subject matching 'Allegory in portraits'
A selection of portraits that make use of allegory.
by George Perfect Harding, after Unknown artist
watercolour, 19th century, based on a work of 1573
NPG 2410
by Sir Anthony van Dyck
oil on canvas, circa 1633-1634
NPG 5727
by James Parmentier
oil on copper, circa 1685
NPG 137
John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough
by Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt
oil on canvas, circa 1706
On display in Room 7 on Floor 3 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 902
by Sir James Thornhill
oil on canvas, octagonal, circa 1715-1720
NPG 5339
by Giuseppe Grisoni
oil on canvas, 1718-1719
NPG 5781
Caroline Wilhelmina of Brandenburg-Ansbach
by Jacopo Amigoni
oil on canvas, 1735
NPG 4332
by Daniel Gardner
gouache and chalk, 1775
NPG 6903
Portraits in the Characters of the Muses in the Temple of Apollo
by Richard Samuel
oil on canvas, 1778
On display at Royal Academy of Arts, London
NPG 4905
by Samuel Cousins, published by Walter Benjamin Tiffin, published by Rittner and Co, after Sir Thomas Lawrence
mezzotint, published 22 April 1830
NPG 1634b
by Sir Edwin Landseer
pen and wash, circa 1835
NPG 4917
'Art must assist Photography' (Putto as Allegory of Painting)
by Oscar Gustav Rejlander
albumen print, 1856
NPG P2011(1)
Alexander II, Emperor of Russia
by James Jacques Joseph Tissot
watercolour, published in Vanity Fair 16 October 1869
NPG 4707(2)
The Victoria Memorial by Sir Thomas Brock
by London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company
photogravure, 1911
NPG P1700(93)
by Maggi Hambling
oil on canvas, 1977-1978
NPG 6562
Study of 'The Flaying of Marsyas' by Titian
by Tom Phillips
oil on canvas, 1985-1986
NPG 5944(8)
by Camille Silvy
albumen print, 28 March 1861
NPG Ax52163