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- subject matching 'Books and libraries'
A selection of portraits that depict books and libraries. See also: 'Reading' and 'Writing' (Activity).
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
Thomas Cromwell, Earl of Essex
after Hans Holbein the Younger
oil on panel, early 17th century, based on a work of 1532-1533
On display in Room 1 on Floor 3 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 1727
by Unknown Flemish artist
oil on panel, 1559
NPG 2445
by Unknown artist
oil on panel, transferred to canvas, 1560
NPG 195
by Unknown artist
oil on panel, late sixteenth century
NPG 296
by Unknown artist
oil on panel, circa 1575
NPG 4165
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
after Unknown artist
watercolour, based on a work of 1613
NPG 4371
by Robert Nanteuil
engraving, 1650
NPG 3258
by Isaac Fuller
oil on canvas, circa 1651
NPG 2924
by James Maubert
oil on canvas, after 1700
NPG 1133
after Sir James Thornhill
oil on canvas, based on a work of 1710
NPG 851
by Philip Mercier
oil on canvas, 1733
NPG 1556
by John Michael Williams
oil on canvas, circa 1737-1740
NPG 504
by Rupert Barber
pastel, circa 1745
NPG 6961
William Stanhope, 1st Earl of Harrington
by James Worsdale
oil on canvas, 1746-1750
NPG 4376
Benjamin Griffin as Tribulatio in Ben Jonson's 'The Alchemist' Act III, Scene 2
by Peter van Bleeck
hand-coloured mezzotint, 1748 after a work of 1738
On display in Room 11 on Floor 3 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG L269.B5.15
by Frans van der Mijn (or Myn)
oil on canvas, 1750
NPG 5275