Teachers' notes
Sets of teachers notes in Adobe Acrobat PDF format in relation to portraits within the Gallery's collections, themes or exhibitions. To open PDF files download free Adobe Reader software.
Teachers Resources - Primary
Use our portraits to broaden your teaching of art, maths and history.
Teachers Resources - Secondary
Broaden your teaching of History and Art through works in the Gallery's collections.
The Anti-Slavery Convention
A guide to the painting, The Anti-Slavery Society Convention, 1840 by Benjamin Robert Haydon.
Contemporary Portraits
Exploring a medium through a selection of works from the Gallery's collections.
The Great Reform Act
A guide to looking at The House of Commons, 1833 by Sir George Hayter.
Self-Portrait Commission Project
Create self-portraits, both formal and fictive, following a commission brief from the Gallery in reference to portraits selected from the Gallery's Collection.
A Portrait of Today
Develop, explore, analyse, evaluate, review and modify using a selection of contemporary portraits selected from the Gallery's collections.
Related portraits
- Queen Elizabeth I ('The Ditchley portrait') (NPG 2561)
- The Somerset House Conference, 1604 (NPG 665)
- John Evelyn (NPG 6179)
- Thomas Hope (NPG 4574)
- The House of Commons, 1833 (NPG 54)
- The Anti-Slavery Society Convention, 1840 (NPG 599)
- Dame Edith Sitwell (NPG 5801)
- Madame Yevonde (NPG P620)
- Angus McBean (NPG P935)
- Sir Thomas Beecham, 2nd Bt (NPG 4221)
- David Hockney ('The Student - Homage to Picasso') (NPG 5280)
- Peter Blake (NPG 5845)
- Iris Murdoch (NPG 5921)
- Queen Elizabeth II (NPG 5861)
- Richard George Rogers, Baron Rogers (NPG 6021)
- Zandra Rhodes (NPG 6221)
- Salman Rushdie ('The Moor') (NPG 6352)
- Sarah Lucas ('Self-Portrait with Skull') (NPG P884(8))
- Jonathan Miller (NPG 6492)
- Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson (NPG 6494)
- Susan Adele Greenfield, Baroness Greenfield (NPG 6526)
- Damon Albarn (NPG 6593(1))
- Graham Coxon (NPG 6593(2))
- Alex James (NPG 6593(3))
- Dave Rowntree (NPG 6593(4))
- Dame Jacqueline Wilson (née Aitken) (NPG P949(6))
- Mo Mowlam (NPG 6468)
- Thomas Joseph Edmund Adès (NPG 6619)
- Judi Dench (NPG 6671)
- David Hockney ('Self-Portrait with Charlie') (NPG 6819)
- J.K. Rowling (NPG 6723)
- Paul Merton (NPG x47390)
- Sophie Okonedo (NPG x125670)
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