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Complete Illustrated Catalogue

David Saywell and Jacob Simon, National Portrait Gallery. Complete Illustrated Catalogue, National Portrait Gallery, 2004

Catalogues raisonnés of the Primary Collection
Eileen Harris, The Townshend Album, HMSO, 1974

John Ingamells, Mid-Georgian Portraits 1760-1790, NPG, 2004

John Kerslake, Early Georgian Portraits, HMSO, 2 vols, 1977

Richard Ormond, Early Victorian Portraits, HMSO, 2 vols, 1973

David Piper, Seventeenth Century Portraits in the National Portrait Gallery, Cambridge University Press, 1963

Roy Strong, Tudor and Jacobean Portraits, HMSO, 2 vols, 1969

Richard Walker, Regency Portraits, National Portrait Gallery, 2 vols, 1985

Other collection catalogues

Colin Ford, An Early Victorian Album. The Photographic Masterpieces (1843-1847) of David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1976

Robin Gibson and Pam Roberts (including a catalogue by Ian Thomas), Madame Yevonde. Colour, Fantasy and Myth, National Portrait Gallery, 1990

Richard Ormond, Original Vanity Fair Cartoons in the National Portrait Gallery, National Portrait Gallery, 1976

Terence Pepper, Howard Coster's Celebrity Portraits. 101 Photographs of Personalities in Literature and the Arts, National Portrait Gallery, London, in association with Dover Publications, Inc., New York, 1985

Terence Pepper, Dorothy Wilding. The Pursuit of Perfection, National Portrait Gallery, 1991

Malcolm Rogers, Camera Portraits. Photographs from the National Portrait Gallery 1839-1989, National Portrait Gallery, 1989

Malcolm Rogers, Master Drawings from the National Portrait Gallery, National Portrait Gallery, London, in association with Art Services International, Alexandria, Virginia, 1993

Richard Walker, 'Henry Bone Pencil Drawings in the National Portrait Gallery', Walpole Society, vol. 61, 1999, pp. 305-67

Robert Woof and Stephen Hebron, Romantic Icons. The National Portrait Gallery at Dove Cottage, Grasmere, The Wordsworth Trust, 1999

Books and articles on the collections

The National Portrait Gallery Collection, National Portrait Gallery, 1988

Robin Gibson, The Face in the Corner. Animals in Portraits from the Collections of the National Portrait Gallery, National Portrait Gallery, 1998

Eilean Hooper-Greenhill, 'The Collections of the First Decade of the National Portrait Gallery, London', Museums and the Interpretation of Visual Culture, Routledge, 2000, pp. 23-48

Gertrude Prescott Nuding, 'Portraits for the Nation', History Today vol. 39 (1989), pp. 30-36

Aileen Ribeiro, The Gallery of Fashion, National Portrait Gallery, 2000

Charles Saumarez Smith, The National Portrait Gallery, National Portrait Gallery, 1997

Jacob Simon, 'Collecting the Twentieth Century at the National Portrait Gallery', Christies Bulletin for Professional Advisers, 6/2 (Winter 2001), pp. 20-27

Richard Walker, Miniatures. 300 Years of the English Miniature Illustrated from the Collections of the National Portrait Gallery, National Portrait Gallery, 1998

CD-ROMs

National Portrait Gallery: Woodward Portrait Explorer on CD-ROM, National Portrait Gallery, 2001

General background and history of the National Portrait Gallery

'National Portraits', All the Year Round, (November 1863), pp. 252-256
'The National Portrait Gallery', Quarterly Review, (April 1888), pp. 339-376

'The New National Portrait Gallery and Some of its Treasures', The Graphic, (4 April 1896), pp.407-410

Paul Barlow, 'The Imagined Hero as Incarnate Sign: Thomas Carlyle and the Mythology of the 'National Portrait' in Victorian Britain', Art History, vol. 17, no. 4 (December 1994), pp.517-545

John Cooper, National Portrait Gallery: A Visitor's Guide, National Portrait Gallery, 2000

Sir Joshua Fitch, The National Portrait Gallery (Reprinted from the Educational Record, June 1907), Eyre and Spottiswoode, [1908]

Peter Fleetwood-Hesketh, 'Future of the National Portrait Gallery', Country Life, (20 August 1970), pp. 446-448

Sir Henry Hake, 'Foreword', NPG Catalogue 1856-1947, National Portrait Gallery, 1949, pp.ix-xii

John Hayes, The National Portrait Gallery in Colour, edited by Richard Ormond, Studio Vista, 1979, pp.3-5

Graham Hulme, Brian Buchanan and Kenneth Powell, The National Portrait Gallery: An Architectural History, National Portrait Gallery, 2000

Cosmo Monkhouse, 'The National Portrait Gallery', Scribner's Magazine, (September 1896), pp.317-333

Gertrude Prescott Nuding, 'Portraits for the Nation', History Today, vol. 39 (June 1989), pp.30-36

Lara Perry, 'The National Portrait Gallery and its Constituencies, 1858-96', Governing Cultures: Art Institutions in Victorian London, edited by Paul Barlow and Colin Trodd, pp.145-156

Marcia Pointon, 'Epilogue. Saved from the Housekeepers Room: The Foundation of the National Portrait Gallery, London', Hanging the Head, Yale 1993, pp.227-245

Charles Saumarez Smith, The National Portrait Gallery, National Portrait Gallery, 1997

Jacob Simon, 'Collecting the Twentieth Century at the National Portrait Gallery', Christies Bulletin for Professional Advisers, 6/2 (Winter 2001), pp.20-27

Sir Roy Strong, 'Faces Past and Faces Present', Art and Artists, vol. 1 (1970), pp.26-29

Brandon Taylor, 'Art for the Nation, Exhibitions and the London Public 1747-2001', The Barber Institute's Critical Perspectives in Art History Series, Manchester University Press, pp.92-99

British portraits held in other collections

Details of portraits held by public and accessible private collections, drawn primarily from the Archive's extensive portrait files, are included in:

Richard Ormond and Malcolm Rogers (editors), Dictionary of British Portraiture, 4 vols, Batsford, 1979-81

British portraiture

The British Portrait 1660-1960, Antique Collectors' Club, 1991

David Piper, The English Face, National Portrait Gallery, 1992

Marcia Pointon, Hanging the Head: Portraiture and Social Formation in Eighteenth Century England, Yale 1993

Robin Simon, The Portrait in Britain and America, Phaidon, 1987

Sir Roy Strong, The English Icon: Elizabethan and Jacobean Portraiture, (Studies in British Art), Paul Mellon Foundation for British Art, 1969

British portrait painters and sculptors

David Buckman, Dictionary of Artists in Britain Since 1945, Art Dictionaries Ltd, 1998

Checklist of British Artists in the Witt Library, Witt Library, Courtauld Institute of Art, 1991

Daphne Foskett, Miniatures: Dictionary and Guide, Antique Collectors' Club, 1987

Daphne Foskett, A Dictionary of British Miniature Painters, 2 vols., Faber & Faber Ltd, 1972

Julian Halsby and Paul Harris, The Dictionary of Scottish Painters 1600 to the Present, 2nd edition, Cannongate, 1998

J. Johnson and A. Greutzner, The Dictionary of British Artists 1880-1940, Antique Collectors' Club, 1976

Peter J.M.McEwan, Dictionary of Scottish Art and Architecture, Antique Collectors' Club, 1994

James Mackay, The Dictionary of Sculptors in Bronze, Antique Collectors' Club, 1977

Theo Snoddy, Dictionary of Irish Artists 20th Century, Wolfhound Press, 1996

Frances Spalding, 20th Century Painters and Sculptors (Dictionary of British Art vol. VI), Antique Collectors' Club, 1990

Brian Stewart and Mervyn Cutten, The Dictionary of British Portrait Painters in Britain up to 1920, Antique Collectors' Club, 1997

Ellis Waterhouse, The Dictionary of 16th and 17th Century British Painters, Antique Collectors' Club, 1988

Ellis Waterhouse, The Dictionary of British 18th Century Painters in Oils and Crayons, Antique Collectors' Club, 1981

Christopher Wood, Victorian Painters (Dictionary of British Art vol. IV), 2 vols., Antique Collectors' Club, 1995