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1271 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
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