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- subject matching 'Reading'
A selection of portraits that depict sitters reading. See also: 'Books and Libraries' (Accessory) and 'Writing' (Activiity).
Lady Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby
by Meynart Weywyck (Maynard Vewicke)
oil on panel, circa 1510
On display in Room 1 on Floor 3 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG L270
by Unknown artist
oil on panel, late sixteenth century
NPG 295
after Arnold Bronckorst
oil on panel, 1581
NPG 524
Sir Thomas More, his father, his household and his descendants
by Rowland Lockey, after Hans Holbein the Younger
oil on canvas, 1593
On display in Room 1 on Floor 3 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 2765
copy by George Perfect Harding, after Unknown artist
watercolour, 19th century, based on a work of circa 1609
NPG 2404
by Gerrit van Honthorst
oil on canvas, 1628
NPG 4444
by William Sheppard
oil on canvas, 1650
On display at Gawthorpe Hall, Burnley
NPG 3795
by Sir Peter Lely
oil on canvas, 1662
NPG 1519
George Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys of Wem
by John Michael Wright
oil on canvas, 1675
On display in Room 7 on Floor 3 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 6047
Barbara Palmer (née Villiers), Duchess of Cleveland
after Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt
oil on canvas, circa 1705, based on a work of circa 1705
NPG 427
by Philip Mercier
oil on canvas, 1733
NPG 1556
by Francis Hayman
oil on canvas, 1740
NPG 5588
attributed to Thomas Hudson
oil on canvas, circa 1745-1748
NPG 6144
by Sir Joshua Reynolds
oil on canvas, circa 1756-1760
NPG 3123
by Thomas Gainsborough
oil on canvas, 1770
On display at Gainsborough's House, Sudbury
NPG 5054