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- subject matching 'Eyeglasses and spectacles'
A selection of portraits that depict sitters wearing or using spectacles, monocles, magnifying glasses and other implements to aid vision.
by Unknown artist
oil on panel, late sixteenth century
NPG 295
by Unknown Anglo-Netherlandish artist
oil on panel, 1570s
NPG 5262
Illustration to Ben Jonson's 'The Alchemist'
by Charles Grignion, after John Graham
etching, circa 1791
On display in Room 11 on Floor 3 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG L269.B7.01
by Silvester (Sylvester) Harding
watercolour and ink on paper, engraved 1794
NPG 2541
Thomas Holcroft; William Godwin
by Sir Thomas Lawrence
pencil with black and red chalk, 1794
NPG 6880
by Lemuel Francis Abbott
oil on canvas, circa 1800
NPG 2519
by Adam Buck, after Williams (Solomon Williams?)
watercolour, circa 1803
NPG 1131
by John Opie
oil on canvas, circa 1804
NPG 512
by Alfred Edward Chalon
watercolour and pen and ink, 1804
NPG 1962(b)
by Thomas Cooley
pencil, 1810
NPG 4913b
by Sir George Hayter
pencil and wash, 1811
NPG 2617
by Sir Henry Raeburn
oil on canvas, circa 1811
NPG 840
by Mary Ann Grimaldi, after Louisa Edmeads (née Grimaldi)
pen and pencil, 1832, based on a work of 1815-1820
NPG 3114
by Sir David Wilkie
black and white chalk, 1815
NPG 1505
probably by Richard Evans
oil on canvas, circa 1816
NPG 4955
by John Partridge
oil on canvas, circa 1818
NPG 4827
Various heads including, Richard Hely-Hutchinson, 1st Earl of Donoughmore
by Sir George Hayter
ink and pencil, circa 1820
NPG 2662(29)
by Sir George Hayter
pencil, pen and ink, 1820
NPG 1695(r)
by John Stevens
oil on canvas, circa 1821
NPG 446a