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SOUND GUIDE

List of Portraits covered on the Sound Guide

Sitters A - L | M - Z and Groups

Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby
1861-1936
Field-Marshal
by Eric Henri Kennington
before 1926
pastel
17 1/2 in. x 13 1/4 in. (445 mm x 337 mm)
NPG 2906

Anne
1665-1714
Reigned 1702-14
by Michael Dahl
1705
oil on canvas
93 1/4 in. x 57 in. (2368 mm x 1448 mm)
NPG 6187

Anne Boleyn
1507-1536
Second Queen of Henry VIII
by Unknown artist
circa 1570-1599 (circa 1533-1536)
oil on panel
21 3/8 in. x 16 3/8 in. (543 mm x 416 mm)
NPG 668

Frances d'Arblay ('Fanny Burney')
1752-1840
Diarist and novelist; daughter of Charles Burney
by Edward Francis Burney
circa 1784-1785
oil on canvas
30 in. x 25 in. (762 mm x 635 mm)
NPG 2634

Sir Richard Arkwright
1732-1792
Engineer and inventor
studio of Joseph Wright
(1790)
oil on canvas
29 3/4 in. x 25 in. (756 mm x 635 mm)
NPG 136

Thomas Howard, 2nd Earl of Arundel and Surrey
1585-1646
Art patron and collector
by Sir Peter Paul Rubens
1629
oil on canvas
27 in. x 21 in. (686 mm x 533 mm)
NPG 2391

Jane Austen
1775-1817
Novelist
by Cassandra Austen
circa 1810
pencil and watercolour
4 1/2 in. x 3 1/8 in. (114 mm x 80 mm)
NPG 3630

Robert Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon

1897-1977
Prime Minister
by Derek Hill
1974
oil on canvas
18 1/2 in. x 18 1/2 in. (460 mm x 460 mm)
NPG 5775

Johann Christian Bach
1735-1782
Composer
copy by Thomas Gainsborough
circa 1776
oil on canvas
30 1/8 in. x 25 1/8 in. (765 mm x 638 mm)
NPG 5557

Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell
1857-1941
Founder of the Boy Scouts and Girl Guides
by Sir Hubert von Herkomer
1903
oil on canvas
55 7/8 in. x 44 1/8 in. (1419 mm x 1121 mm)
NPG 5991

Robert Bakewell
1725-1795
Grazier
by John Boultbee
circa 1788-1790
oil on canvas
27 5/8 in. x 35 5/8 in. (703 mm x 905 mm)
NPG 5949

Sir Joseph Banks, Bt
1743-1820
Explorer and botanist
by Sir Joshua Reynolds
exhibited 1773
oil on canvas
50 1/8 in. x 40 1/8 in. (1273 mm x 1019 mm)
NPG 5868

Sir Charles Barry
1795-1860
Architect
by John Prescott Knight
circa 1851
oil on canvas
57 in. x 44 in. (1448 mm x 1118 mm)
NPG 1272

Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield
1804-1881
Prime Minister and novelist
by Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Bt
1881
oil on canvas
50 1/4 in. x 36 5/8 in. (1276 mm x 931 mm)
NPG 3241

Aubrey Vincent Beardsley
1872-1898
Illustrator
by Jacques-Emile Blanche
1895
oil on canvas
35 1/2 in. x 28 1/4 in. (902 mm x 718 mm)
NPG 1991

William Maxwell Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook
1879-1964
Statesman and newspaper proprietor
by Walter Richard Sickert
1935
oil on canvas
69 3/8 in. x 42 1/4 in. (1762 mm x 1073 mm)
NPG 5173

James Belcher
1781-1811
Boxer
by Unknown artist
circa 1800
oil on canvas
30 in. x 25 1/8 in. (762 mm x 638 mm)
NPG 5214

Alan Bennett
1934-
Playwright
by Tom Wood
1993
oil on canvas laid on panel
43 1/2 in. x 48 in. (1105 mm x 1220 mm)
NPG 6186

Tessa Ann Vosper Blackstone, Baroness Blackstone
1942-
Educationalist
by Annabel Cullen
1991
oil on canvas
36 in. x 24 in. (914 mm x 607 mm)
NPG 6157

William Blake
1757-1827
Visionary poet and painter
by Thomas Phillips
1807
oil on canvas
36 1/4 in. x 28 3/8 in. (921 mm x 720 mm)
NPG 212

James Boswell
1740-1795
Biographer of Dr Johnson
by Sir Joshua Reynolds
1785
oil on canvas
30 in. x 25 in. (762 mm x 635 mm)
NPG 4452

Robert Boyle
1627-1691
Chemist and natural philosopher
after Johann Kerseboom
(circa 1689-1690)
oil on canvas
50 in. x 40 3/4 in. (1270 mm x 1035 mm)
NPG 3930

Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson
1950-
Business executive and entrepreneur
by David Mach
1999
mixed media (postcard and photo-collage)
71 3/4 in. x 71 7/8 in. (1824 mm x 1826 mm)
NPG 6494

Rupert Brooke
1887-1915
Poet
by Clara Ewald
1911
oil on canvas
21 1/2 in. x 29 in. (546 mm x 737 mm)
NPG 4911

Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux
1778-1868
Lord Chancellor
by Sir Thomas Lawrence
1825
oil on panel
45 in. x 32 1/4 in. (1143 mm x 819 mm)
NPG 3136

Lancelot Brown

1716-1783
'Capability Brown'; landscape gardener
by Nathaniel Dance (Sir Nathaniel Dance-Holland, Bt)
circa 1769
oil on canvas
29 5/8 in. x 24 7/8 in. (752 mm x 632 mm)
NPG 6049

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
1806-1861
Poet; wife of Robert Browning
by Michele Gordigiani
1858
oil on canvas
29 in. x 23 in. (737 mm x 584 mm)
NPG 1899

Sir Marc Isambard Brunel
1769-1849
Civil engineer
by Samuel Drummond
circa 1835
oil on canvas
50 in. x 40 in. (1270 mm x 1016 mm)
NPG 89

George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham
1592-1628
Courtier; favourite of James I
attributed to William Larkin
circa 1616
oil on canvas
81 in. x 47 in. (2057 mm x 1194 mm)
NPG 3840

John Bunyan
1628-1688
Author of 'Pilgrim's Progress'
by Thomas Sadler
1684
oil on canvas
29 1/2 in. x 25 in. (749 mm x 635 mm)
NPG 1311

Sir Francis Burdett, 5th Bt

1770-1844
Parliamentary reformer
by Sir Thomas Lawrence
circa 1793
oil on canvas
98 1/2 in. x 56 1/2 in. (2502 mm x 1435 mm)
NPG 3820

William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley
1520-1598
Lord High Treasurer
by or after Arnold van Brounckhorst
circa 1560-1570
oil on panel
37 1/2 in. x 28 1/4 in. (953 mm x 718 mm)
NPG 2184

Edmund Burke
1729-1797
Statesman
studio of Sir Joshua Reynolds
(1767-1769)
oil on canvas
29 3/4 in. x 24 3/4 in. (756 mm x 629 mm)
NPG 655

Frederick Gustavus Burnaby
1842-1885
Soldier, traveller and balloonist
by James Jacques Tissot
1870
oil on panel
19 1/2 in. x 23 1/2 in. (495 mm x 597 mm)
NPG 2642

John Burns
1858-1943
Labour leader and politician
by John Collier
1889
oil on canvas
49 in. x 36 1/4 in. (1245 mm x 921 mm)
NPG 3170

Sir Richard Francis Burton
1821-1890
Explorer and writer
by Frederic Leighton, Baron Leighton
circa 1872-1875
oil on canvas
23 1/2 in. x 19 1/2 in. (597 mm x 495 mm)
NPG 1070

Darcey Andrea Bussell
1969-
Ballerina
by Allen Jones
1994
oil on canvas
72 in. x 59 7/8 in. (1829 mm x 1521 mm)
NPG 6252

Dame Antonia Susan ('A.S.') Byatt
1936-
Novelist and critic
by Patrick Heron
1997
oil on canvas
38 1/8 in. x 47 7/8 in. (968 mm x 1216 mm)
NPG 6414

George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron
1788-1824
Poet
after an original by Thomas Phillips
circa 1835 (1813)
oil on canvas
30 1/8 in. x 25 1/8 in. (765 mm x 639 mm)
NPG 142

Gertrude Elizabeth, Lady Colin Campbell
1858-1911
Journalist and socialite
by Giovanni Boldini
circa 1897
oil on canvas
71 3/4 in. x 46 1/4 in. (1822 mm x 1175 mm)
NPG 1630

George Canning
1770-1827
Prime Minister
by Sir Thomas Lawrence
1825
oil on canvas
93 3/4 in. x 58 in. (2381 mm x 1473 mm)
NPG 1832

James Thomas Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan
1797-1868
General
by Sir Francis Grant
circa 1841
oil on canvas
15 3/4 in. x 14 3/8 in. (400 mm x 365 mm)
NPG 5369

Thomas Carlyle
1795-1881
Historian and essayist
by George Frederic Watts
1868
oil on canvas
26 in. x 21 in. (660 mm x 533 mm)
NPG 1002

Edward Carpenter
1844-1929
Sociologist
by Roger Fry
exhibited 1894
oil on canvas
29 1/2 in. x 17 1/4 in. (749 mm x 438 mm)
NPG 2447

Catherine Parr
1512-1548
Sixth Queen of Henry VIII
attributed to Master John
circa 1545
oil on panel
71 in. x 37 in. (1803 mm x 940 mm)
NPG 4451

Arthur Neville Chamberlain
1869-1940
Prime Minister; son of Joseph Chamberlain
by Henry Lamb
circa 1939
oil on canvas
51 in. x 37 in. (1295 mm x 940 mm)
NPG 4279

Joseph Chamberlain
1836-1914
Statesman
by Frank (Francis Montague) Holl
1886
oil on canvas
45 1/2 in. x 34 in. (1156 mm x 864 mm)
NPG 1604

Charles I
1600-1649
Reigned 1625-49
by Daniel Mytens
1631
oil on canvas
85 in. x 53 in. (2159 mm x 1346 mm)
NPG 1246

Charles II
1630-1685
Reigned 1660-85
attributed to Thomas Hawker
circa 1680
oil on canvas
89 1/4 in. x 53 3/8 in. (2267 mm x 1356 mm)
NPG 4691

Prince Charles Edward Stuart
1720-1788
Grandson of James II; 'Bonnie Prince Charlie'
by Louis Gabriel Blanchet
1738
oil on canvas
75 in. x 55 1/2 in. (1905 mm x 1410 mm)
NPG 5517

Sir Robert ('Bobby') Charlton
1937-
Footballer
by Peter Edwards
1991
oil on canvas
84 in. x 62 in. (2136 mm x 1573 mm)
NPG 6140

Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
1694-1773
Statesman
by Louis François Roubiliac
1745
marble bust
22 3/4 in. (578 mm)
NPG 5829

Lord Randolph Churchill
1849-1895
Statesman
by Edwin Longsden Long
exhibited 1888
oil on canvas
50 1/8 in. x 40 in. (1274 mm x 1016 mm)
NPG 5113

Sir Winston Spencer Churchill
1874-1965
Prime Minister
after Oscar Nemon
1995 (circa 1955)
modern cast of bronze bust
22 in. (559 mm)
NPG 6347

Colley Cibber
1671-1757
Dramatist and actor
by Cheere's(?) Workshop
circa 1740
painted plaster bust
26 1/2 in. (673 mm)
NPG 1045

Mary Anne Clarke
1776-1852
Mistress of the Duke of York
by Lawrence Gahagan
1811
marble bust
25 1/4 in. (641 mm)
NPG 4436

Thomas Clarkson
1760-1846
Philanthropist
by Carl Frederik von Breda
1788
oil on canvas
35 3/4 in. x 27 3/4 in. (908 mm x 705 mm)
NPG 235

Barbara Palmer, Duchess of Cleveland
1640-1709
Mistress of Charles II
by John Michael Wright
1670
oil on canvas
48 3/8 in. x 52 3/8 in. (1228 mm x 1330 mm)
NPG 5497

William Cobbett
1763-1835
Writer, politician and agriculturalist
possibly by George Cooke
circa 1831
oil on canvas
36 in. x 28 in. (914 mm x 711 mm)
NPG 1549

John Constable
1776-1837
Landscape painter
by Ramsay Richard Reinagle
circa 1799
oil on canvas
30 in. x 25 1/8 in. (762 mm x 638 mm)
NPG 1786

James Cook
1728-1779
Circumnavigator
by John Webber
1776
oil on canvas, feigned oval
14 1/2 in. x 11 1/2 in. (368 mm x 292 mm)
NPG 26

Sir Noel Coward
1899-1973
Actor and playwright
by Clemence Dane (Winifred Ashton)
before 1939
oil on canvas
20 1/8 in. x 16 1/8 in. (510 mm x 410 mm)
NPG 4950

Thomas Cranmer
1489-1556
Archbishop of Canterbury
by Gerlach Flicke
1546
oil on panel
38 3/4 in. x 30 in. (984 mm x 762 mm)
NPG 535

Oliver Cromwell
1599-1658
Lord Protector of England
by Robert Walker
circa 1649
oil on canvas
49 1/2 in. x 40 in. (1257 mm x 1016 mm)
NPG 536

Mary Ann Cross
1819-1880
'George Eliot'; novelist
replica by François D'Albert Durade
(1849)
oil on canvas
13 1/2 in. x 10 1/2 in. (343 mm x 267 mm)
NPG 1405

Charles Robert Darwin
1809-1882
Naturalist; evolved theory of evolution; grandson of Erasmus Darwin
copy by John Collier
1883 (1881)
oil on canvas
49 1/2 in. x 38 in. (1257 mm x 965 mm)
NPG 1024

Sir Humphry Davy, Bt
1778-1829
Chemist
by Henry Howard
1803
oil on canvas
50 1/2 in. x 40 1/2 in. (1283 mm x 1029 mm)
NPG 4591

Charles Dickens
1812-1870
Novelist
by Daniel Maclise
1839
oil on canvas
36 in. x 28 1/8 in. (914 mm x 714 mm)
NPG 1172

Venetia, Lady Digby
1600-1633
Beauty; wife of Sir Kenelm Digby
by Sir Anthony Van Dyck
circa 1633-1634
oil on canvas
39 3/4 in. x 31 1/2 in. (1011 mm x 802 mm)
NPG 5727

Sir Francis Drake
1540-1596
Admiral and circumnavigator
by Unknown artist
circa 1580
oil on panel
71 3/8 in. x 44 1/2 in. (1813 mm x 1130 mm)
NPG 4032

Edward VI
1537-1553
Reigned 1547-53, son of Henry VIII and Jane Seymour
by Unknown artist
circa 1547
oil on panel
61 1/4 in. x 32 in. (1556 mm x 813 mm)
NPG 5511

Edward VI
1537-1553
Reigned 1547-53, son of Henry VIII and Jane Seymour
by William Scrots
1546
oil on panel, anamorphosis
16 3/4 in. x 63 in. (425 mm x 1600 mm)
NPG 1299

Thomas Stearns Eliot
1888-1965
Poet
by Patrick Heron
1949
oil on canvas
30 in. x 24 3/4 in. (762 mm x 629 mm)
NPG 4467

Elizabeth I
1533-1603
Reigned 1558-1603, daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn
by Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger
circa 1592
oil on canvas
95 in. x 60 in. (2413 mm x 1524 mm)
NPG 2561

Elizabeth, Queen of Bohemia
1596-1662
Daughter of James I
by Robert Peake the Elder
circa 1610
oil on canvas
67 1/2 in. x 38 1/8 in. (1713 mm x 968 mm)
NPG 6113

Sir Jacob Epstein
1880-1959
Sculptor
by Sir Jacob Epstein
circa 1912
bronze cast of head
19 3/4 in. (502 mm)
NPG 4126

Thomas Cromwell, 1st Earl of Essex
circa 1485-1540
Statesman
after Hans Holbein the Younger
circa 1534-1599 (1533-1534)
oil on panel
30 3/4 in. x 24 3/8 in. (781 mm x 619 mm)
NPG 1727

Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex
1566-1601
Soldier; favourite of Elizabeth I
attributed to Nicholas Hilliard
circa 1587
watercolour and bodycolour on vellum
9 3/4 in. x 8 in. (248 mm x 203 mm)
NPG 6241

John Evelyn
1620-1706
Diarist and virtuoso
by Robert Walker
1648
oil on canvas
34 5/8 in. x 25 1/4 in. (879 mm x 641 mm)
NPG 6179

Michael Faraday
1791-1867
Scientist
by Thomas Phillips
1841-1842
oil on canvas
35 3/4 in. x 28 in. (908 mm x 711 mm)
NPG 269

Kathleen Ferrier
1912-1953
Singer
by Maurice Codner
1946
oil on canvas
30 1/4 in. x 25 1/8 in. (768 mm x 638 mm)
NPG 6258

Sir John Fielding
died 1780
Magistrate and social reformer
by Nathaniel Hone
1762
oil on canvas
49 in. x 39 1/2 in. (1245 mm x 1003 mm)
NPG 3834

John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher
1841-1920
Admiral
by Sir Hubert von Herkomer
1911
oil on canvas
68 in. x 47 in. (1727 mm x 1194 mm)
NPG 2805

Catherine Maria Fisher
died 1767
'Kitty Fisher'; courtesan
by Nathaniel Hone
1765
oil on canvas
29 1/2 in. x 24 1/2 in. (749 mm x 622 mm)
NPG 2354

Maria Anne Fitzherbert
1756-1837
Famous beauty and morganatic wife of George IV
by Sir Joshua Reynolds
circa 1788
oil on canvas
36 in. x 28 in. (914 mm x 711 mm)
NPG L162

Edward Morgan Forster
1879-1970
Novelist
by Dora Carrington
1920
oil on canvas
20 in. x 16 in. (508 mm x 406 mm)
NPG 4698

Thomas Gainsborough
1727-1788
Portrait and landscape painter
by Thomas Gainsborough
circa 1758-1759
oil on canvas
30 in. x 25 in. (762 mm x 635 mm)
NPG 4446

Hugh Gaitskell
1906-1963
Chancellor of the Exchequer
by Judy Cassab (Mrs Kampfner)
1957
oil on canvas
36 in. x 29 3/4 in. (914 mm x 756 mm)
NPG 4923

George II
1683-1760
Reigned 1727-60
by Thomas Hudson
1744
oil on canvas
86 1/8 in. x 57 3/4 in. (2188 mm x 1467 mm)
NPG 670

George III
1738-1820
Reigned 1760-1820
studio of Allan Ramsay
(1761)
oil on canvas
58 in. x 42 in. (1473 mm x 1067 mm)
NPG 223

George IV
1762-1830
Regent 1811-20; reigned 1820-30
by Sir Thomas Lawrence
circa 1814
oil on canvas
36 in. x 28 in. (914 mm x 711 mm)
NPG 123

Sir William Schwenk Gilbert
1836-1911
Poet, dramatist and librettist of the 'Savoy' operas
by Frank (Francis Montague) Holl
1886
oil on canvas
39 1/2 in. x 49 1/2 in. (1003 mm x 1257 mm)
NPG 2911

William Ewart Gladstone
1809-1898
Prime Minister
by Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Bt
1879
oil on canvas
49 1/2 in. x 36 in. (1257 mm x 914 mm)
NPG 3637

Sir Daniel Gooch, 1st Bt
1816-1889
Railway pioneer and inventor
by Sir Francis Grant
1872
oil on canvas
56 in. x 44 in. (1422 mm x 1118 mm)
NPG 5080

Germaine Greer
1939-
Writer and journalist
by Paula Rego
1995
pastel on paper laid on aluminium
47 1/4 in. x 43 3/4 in. (1200 mm x 1111 mm)
NPG 6351

Maggi Hambling
1945-
Painter
by Maggi Hambling
1977-1978
oil on canvas
59 7/8 in. x 68 7/8 in. (1520 mm x 1750 mm)
NPG CP56

Emma, Lady Hamilton
1765-1815
Mistress of Lord Nelson
by George Romney
circa 1786
oil on canvas
29 in. x 23 1/2 in. (737 mm x 597 mm)
NPG 294

Emma, Lady Hamilton

1765-1815
Mistress of Lord Nelson
by George Romney
circa 1785
oil on canvas
24 1/2 in. x 21 1/2 in. (622 mm x 546 mm)
NPG 4448

Sir William Hamilton
1730-1803
Diplomat and archaeologist
by Sir Joshua Reynolds and studio
1777
oil on canvas
100 1/2 in. x 69 in. (2553 mm x 1752 mm)
NPG 680

George Frideric Handel
1685-1759
Composer
by Thomas Hudson
1756
oil on canvas
94 in. x 57 1/2 in. (2388 mm x 1461 mm)
NPG 3970

Thomas Hardy
1840-1928
Novelist and poet
by William Strang
1893
oil on panel
17 in. x 15 in. (432 mm x 381 mm)
NPG 2929

Sir Basil Henry Liddell Hart
1895-1970
Military historian
by Hein Heckroth
1939
oil on board
30 1/4 in. x 20 1/4 in. (768 mm x 514 mm)
NPG 5907

Warren Hastings
1732-1818
Governor-General of India
by Sir Joshua Reynolds
1766-1768
oil on canvas
49 3/4 in. x 39 3/4 in. (1264 mm x 1010 mm)
NPG 4445

Stephen William Hawking
1942-
Scientist and mathematician
by Yolanda Sonnabend
1985
oil on canvas
35 7/8 in. x 28 in. (912 mm x 710 mm)
NPG 5799

Benjamin Robert Haydon
1786-1846
History painter and diarist
by Georgiana Margaretta Zornlin
1825
oil on canvas
27 in. x 22 1/2 in. (686 mm x 572 mm)
NPG 510

Henrietta Maria
1609-1669
Queen of Charles I
by; background by Unknown artist; Hendrik van Steenwyck
circa 1635
oil on canvas
85 in. x 53 1/4 in. (2159 mm x 1352 mm)
NPG 1247

Henry VII
1457-1509
Reigned 1485-1509
by Unknown artist
1505
oil on panel, arched top
16 3/4 in. x 12 in. (425 mm x 305 mm)
NPG 416

Henry, Prince of Wales
1594-1612
Eldest son of James I
by Robert Peake the Elder
circa 1610
oil on canvas
68 in. x 44 3/4 in. (1727 mm x 1137 mm)
NPG 4515

Octavia Hill
1838-1912
Social reformer
by John Singer Sargent
1898
oil on canvas
39 3/4 in. x 30 1/2 in. (1010 mm x 775 mm)
NPG 1746

Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin
1910-1994
Scientist
by Maggi Hambling
1985
oil on canvas
36 3/4 in. x 30 in. (932 mm x 760 mm)
NPG 5797

William Hogarth
1697-1764
Painter and engraver
by William Hogarth
circa 1757
oil on canvas
17 3/4 in. x 16 3/4 in. (451 mm x 425 mm)
NPG 289

Thomas Hope
1770-1831
Collector, virtuoso and writer
by Sir William Beechey
exhibited 1799
oil on canvas
87 1/4 in. x 66 1/2 in. (2216 mm x 1689 mm)
NPG 4574

Leslie Howard

1893-1943
Actor
by Reginald Grenville Eves
1930s
oil on canvas
19 1/2 in. x 15 1/2 in. (495 mm x 394 mm)
NPG 3827

Henry Ireton
1611-1651
Parliamentary general
copy attributed to; after; after Robert Walker; Samuel Cooper; Sir Anthony Van Dyck
circa 1650
oil on canvas
49 in. x 39 1/2 in. (1245 mm x 1003 mm)
NPG 3301

Sir Henry Irving
1838-1905
Actor-manager
by Jules Bastien-Lepage
1880
oil on canvas
17 in. x 18 in. (432 mm x 457 mm)
NPG 1560

Kazuo Ishiguro
1954-
Novelist
by Peter Edwards
1995
oil on canvas
29 1/2 in. x 21 7/8 in. (749 mm x 556 mm)
NPG 6332

Glenda Jackson
1936-
Actress and politician
by Glenys Barton
1993
ceramic sculpture
15 3/4 in. (400 mm)
NPG 6224

James I of England and VI of Scotland
1566-1625
Reigned, Scotland from 1567, England 1603-25
by Daniel Mytens
1621
oil on canvas
58 1/2 in. x 39 5/8 in. (1486 mm x 1006 mm)
NPG 109

Phyllis Dorothy James, Baroness James
1920-
Writer and public servant
by Michael Taylor
1996
oil on canvas
33 7/8 in. x 41 3/4 in. (860 mm x 1060 mm)
NPG 6361

Henry James
1843-1916
American-born novelist
by John Singer Sargent
1913
oil on canvas
33 1/2 in. x 26 1/2 in. (851 mm x 673 mm)
NPG 1767

George Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys of Wem
1645-1689
Judge
by John Michael Wright
1673
oil on canvas
47 3/4 in. x 39 3/4 in. (1213 mm x 1010 mm)
NPG 6047

Edward Jenner
1749-1823
Discoverer of vaccination
by James Northcote
1803, 1823
oil on canvas
50 in. x 40 in. (1270 mm x 1016 mm)
NPG 62

Augustus John
1878-1961
Painter
by Sir William Orpen
exhibited 1900
oil on canvas
39 in. x 37 in. (991 mm x 940 mm)
NPG 4252

Gwen (Gwendolen Mary) John
1876-1939
Painter; sister of Augustus John
by Gwen (Gwendolen Mary) John
circa 1900
oil on canvas
24 in. x 14 7/8 in. (610 mm x 378 mm)
NPG 4439

Samuel Johnson
1709-1784
Poet, critic and lexicographer
by Sir Joshua Reynolds
circa 1756-1757
oil on canvas
50 1/4 in. x 40 in. (1276 mm x 1016 mm)
NPG 1597

William Jones
1675-1749
Mathematician
by William Hogarth
1740
oil on canvas
50 in. x 40 1/4 in. (1270 mm x 1022 mm)
NPG 5734

Benjamin Jonson
1573-1637
Poet and dramatist
after Abraham van Blyenberch
probably early 19th century (circa 1617)
oil on panel
14 1/2 in. x 11 3/8 in. (368 mm x 289 mm)
NPG 363

Benjamin Jonson
1573-1637
Poet and dramatist
by Abraham van Blyenberch
circa 1617
oil on canvas
18 1/2 in. x 16 1/2 in. (470 mm x 419 mm)
NPG 2752

Dorothy Jordan
1762-1816
Actress
by John Hoppner
exhibited 1791
oil on canvas
29 1/2 in. x 24 1/2 in. (749 mm x 622 mm)
NPG L174

Edmund Kean
1787-1833
Actor
by James Northcote
1819
oil on canvas
94 1/2 in. x 58 1/4 in. (2400 mm x 1482 mm)
NPG 6088

John Keats
1795-1821
Poet
by Joseph Severn
1821-1823
oil on canvas
22 1/4 in. x 16 1/2 in. (565 mm x 419 mm)
NPG 58

Rudyard Kipling
1865-1936
Writer and poet
by Sir Philip Burne-Jones, 2nd Bt
1899
oil on canvas
29 1/2 in. x 24 1/2 in. (749 mm x 622 mm)
NPG 1863

Constant Lambert
1905-1951
Composer, conductor and critic
by Christopher Wood
1926
oil on canvas
36 in. x 22 in. (914 mm x 559 mm)
NPG 4443

John Laird Mair Lawrence, 1st Baron Lawrence
1811-1879
Governor-General of India
by George Frederic Watts
1862
oil on panel
24 1/2 in. x 19 7/8 in. (622 mm x 505 mm)
NPG 1005

David Herbert Lawrence
1885-1930
Novelist and poet
by Jan Juta
1920
oil on canvas
15 1/4 in. x 11 3/4 in. (387 mm x 298 mm)
NPG 4036

Thomas Edward Lawrence
1888-1935
Soldier and writer; 'Lawrence of Arabia'
copy by Eric Henri Kennington
1954 (1939)
ciment fondu: reworked cast of recumbent effigy
23 1/2 in. x 82 1/2 in. x 34 1/2 in. (597 mm x 2095 mm x 876 mm)
NPG L200

Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester
1532-1588
Favourite of Elizabeth I
by Unknown artist
circa 1575
oil on panel
42 1/2 in. x 32 1/2 in. (1080 mm x 826 mm)
NPG 447

Doris Lessing
1919-
Novelist
by Leonard William McComb
1999
oil on canvas
71 3/4 in. x 49 7/8 in. (1822 mm x 1267 mm)
NPG 6516

Johanna Maria (Jenny) Lind
1820-1887
Singer; 'the Swedish nightingale'
replica by Eduard Magnus
circa 1861 (1846)
oil on canvas
46 1/2 in. x 37 1/4 in. (1181 mm x 946 mm)
NPG 3801

David Lloyd George, 1st Earl Lloyd-George
1863-1945
Prime Minister
by Sir William Orpen
1927
oil on canvas
35 in. x 37 in. (889 mm x 940 mm)
NPG 3244

Charles William Vane-Stewart, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry
1778-1854
Soldier and diplomat
by Sir Thomas Lawrence
1812
oil on canvas
56 1/2 in. x 46 3/8 in. (1435 mm x 1180 mm)
NPG 6171

Sitters M - Z and Groups


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