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1272 portraits matching these criteria:
- subject matching 'Making music'
A selection of portraits that depict musical instruments being played or the making of music.
Unknown man, formerly known as Daniel Purcell
by Unknown artist
oil on canvas, circa 1700
On display at Gawthorpe Hall, Burnley
NPG 1463
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu with her son, Edward Wortley Montagu, and attendants
attributed to Jean Baptiste Vanmour
oil on canvas, circa 1717
On display in Room 9 on Floor 3 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 3924
probably by Louis Goupy
watercolour and bodycolour on vellum laid down on card, 1720
NPG 1920
by Philip Mercier
oil on canvas, 1733
NPG 1556
by Thomas Gainsborough
oil on canvas, circa 1755
On display at Gainsborough's House, Sudbury
NPG 2179
studio of Thomas Frye
oil on canvas, 1760
NPG 196
after Francesco Bartolozzi
hand-coloured etching, 1770-1782, based on a work of circa 1770
NPG 1130
by Edward Francisco Burney
watercolour and pencil, circa 1775-1780
NPG 1860
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 John Nixon
pen and ink and wash, 1787
NPG 5178
A Bravura at the Hanover Square Concert
by John Nixon
pen and ink and brown wash, 1789
NPG 5179
Elizabeth Bannister (née Harpur)
by John Russell
pastel, 1799
NPG 1770
Lady Elizabeth Harcourt (née Bingham)
by Sir George Hayter
pencil and ink, circa 1814-1815
NPG 883(12)
by Charles John Robertson
watercolour on ivory, 1815
NPG 5265
by Alfred Edward Chalon
ink, 1815
NPG 1962(c)
Catherine Stephens, Countess of Essex
by John Jackson
oil on canvas, feigned oval, circa 1822
On display in Room 18 on Floor 3 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 702
Jane Elizabeth, Countess of Ellenborough
by Sir George Hayter
pencil and watercolour, circa 1825
NPG 883(10)
by Sir Edwin Landseer
pen and ink, circa 1825-1835
NPG 3097(10)
by Richard James Wyatt
ink, 1825
NPG 3944(16)
by William Bradley
oil on canvas, 1829
NPG 1326
by Alfred Edward Chalon
watercolour, circa 1830
NPG 1962(e)
by Edward Petre Novello
oil on canvas, early 1830s
NPG 5684
The Novello Family and Friends
by Edward Petre Novello
oil on canvas, circa 1830
On display in Room 18 on Floor 3 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 5686
by Unknown artist
watercolour and stipple on ivory, circa 1834
NPG 1870
Alexina Nesbit Sandford (née Lindsay); Catherine Hepburne Lindsay
by Andrew Geddes
oil on canvas, exhibited 1838
NPG 3791
Unknown man, formerly known as Michael William Balfe
attributed to Richard Rothwell
oil on canvas, circa 1840
NPG 1450
Patrick Byrne ('Irish Harper')
by David Octavius Hill, and Robert Adamson
calotype, 1843-1848
NPG P6(150)
by David Octavius Hill, and Robert Adamson
calotype, 1843-1848
NPG P6(152)
by Jemima Blackburn (née Wedderburn)
watercolour, 1844
NPG 2772(56b)
Mr and Mrs George Henry Lewes with Thornton Leigh Hunt
by William Makepeace Thackeray
pencil
NPG 4686
by Oscar Gustav Rejlander
albumen print, circa 1860-1866
NPG P2011(37)
by Oscar Gustav Rejlander
albumen print, circa 1860-1866
NPG P2011(40)
by Sir Francis Grant
oil on canvas, circa 1861
NPG 783