Audio Guide: Georgian and Regency portraits
Portraits from the Georgian and Regency periods currently on the Audio Guide.
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Jonathan Swift
by Charles Jervas
circa 1718
NPG 278
Edmond Halley
attributed to Isaac Whood
circa 1720
NPG 6377
Catherine Douglas (née Hyde), Duchess of Queensberry
attributed to Charles Jervas
circa 1725-1730
NPG 238
Alexander Pope
by John Michael Rysbrack
1730
NPG 5854
'The Music Party'
by Philip Mercier
1733
NPG 1556
Allan Ramsay
by Allan Ramsay
circa 1737-1739
NPG 3311
Prince Charles Edward Stuart
by Louis Gabriel Blanchet
1738
NPG 5517
Colley Cibber
perhaps from the workshop of Sir Henry Cheere, 1st Bt
circa 1740
NPG 1045
William Jones
by William Hogarth
1740
NPG 5734
Jonathan Tyers and his family
by Francis Hayman
1740
NPG 5588
Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford
studio of Jean Baptiste van Loo
(1740)
NPG 70
The Shudi Family Group
by Marcus Tuscher
circa 1742
NPG 5776
King George II
by Thomas Hudson
1744
NPG 670
Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
by Louis François Roubiliac
1745
NPG 5829
Sir Joshua Reynolds
by Sir Joshua Reynolds
circa 1747-1749
NPG 41
Flora Macdonald
by Richard Wilson
1747
NPG 5848
Francis Hayman; Grosvenor Bedford
by Francis Hayman
circa 1748-1750
NPG 217
George Frideric Handel
by Thomas Hudson
1756
NPG 3970
Samuel Johnson
by Sir Joshua Reynolds
1756-1757
NPG 1597
William Hogarth
by William Hogarth
1758
NPG 289
Thomas Gainsborough
by Thomas Gainsborough
circa 1758-1759
NPG 4446
Robert Clive and Mir Jafar after the Battle of Plassey, 1757
by Francis Hayman
circa 1760
NPG 5263
King George III
studio of Allan Ramsay
(1761-1762)
NPG 223
Sir John Fielding
by Nathaniel Hone
1762
NPG 3834
Kitty Fisher
by Nathaniel Hone
1765
NPG 2354
John Wesley
by Nathaniel Hone
circa 1766
NPG 135
Edmund Burke
studio of Sir Joshua Reynolds
circa 1769 or later
NPG 655
Warren Hastings
by Sir Joshua Reynolds
1766-1768
NPG 4445
Capability Brown
by Nathaniel Dance (later Sir Nathaniel Holland, Bt)
circa 1773
NPG 6049
Sir Joseph Banks, Bt
by Sir Joshua Reynolds
1771-1773
NPG 5868
David Garrick; Eva Maria Garrick (née Veigel)
by Sir Joshua Reynolds
1772-1773
NPG 5375
James Cook
by John Webber
November 1776
NPG 26
Johann Christian Bach
by Thomas Gainsborough
(1776)
NPG 5557
The Sharp Family
by Johan Joseph Zoffany
1779-1781
NPG L169
The Death of the Earl of Chatham
by John Singleton Copley
1779-1781
NPG L146
Sir William Chambers; Joseph Wilton; Sir Joshua Reynolds
by John Francis Rigaud
1782
NPG 987
Mary Wilkes; John Wilkes
by Johan Joseph Zoffany
exhibited 1782
NPG 6133
William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield
by John Singleton Copley
exhibited 1783
NPG 172
Frances d'Arblay ('Fanny Burney')
by Edward Francisco Burney
circa 1784-1785
NPG 2634
James Boswell
by Sir Joshua Reynolds
1785
NPG 4452
Emma, Lady Hamilton
by George Romney
circa 1785
NPG 294
Emma, Lady Hamilton
by George Romney
circa 1785
NPG 4448
Maria Anne Fitzherbert (née Smythe)
by Sir Joshua Reynolds
circa 1788
NPG L162
Thomas Clarkson
by Carl Frederik von Breda
1788
NPG 235
Robert Bakewell
by John Boultbee
circa 1788-1790
NPG 5949
Sir Richard Arkwright
studio of Joseph Wright
circa 1790
NPG 136
Dorothy Jordan
by John Hoppner
exhibited 1791
NPG L174
Thomas Paine
by Laurent Dabos
circa 1791
NPG 6805
James Watt
by Carl Frederik von Breda
1792
NPG 186a
The House of Commons 1793-94
by Karl Anton Hickel
1793-1795
NPG 745
Sarah Siddons (née Kemble) ('Mrs Siddons with the Emblems of Tragedy')
by Sir William Beechey
1793
NPG 5159
Sir Francis Burdett, 5th Bt
by Sir Thomas Lawrence
circa 1793
NPG 3820
Charles James Fox
by Joseph Nollekens
1792-1793
NPG L226
George Washington
by Gilbert Stuart
(1796)
NPG 2041
Mary Wollstonecraft
by John Opie
circa 1797
NPG 1237
Joseph Priestley
by Ellen Sharples, probably after James Sharples
circa 1797
NPG 175
John Constable
by Ramsay Richard Reinagle
circa 1799
NPG 1786
Thomas Hope
by Sir William Beechey
1798
NPG 4574
Jem Belcher
by Unknown artist
circa 1800
NPG 5214
Horatio Nelson
by Sir William Beechey
1800
NPG 5798
Sir Humphry Davy, Bt
by Henry Howard
1803
NPG 4591
Edward Jenner
by James Northcote
1803
NPG 62
William Pitt
studio of John Hoppner
circa 1805 or later
NPG 697
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
by Robert Home
1804
NPG 1471
William Blake
by Thomas Phillips
1807
NPG 212
William Pitt
by Joseph Nollekens
1808
NPG 120
Jane Austen
by Cassandra Austen
circa 1810
NPG 3630
Mary Anne Clarke (née Thompson)
by Lawrence Gahagan
1811
NPG 4436
Charles William Vane-Stewart, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry
by Sir Thomas Lawrence
1812
NPG 6171
John Keats
by Benjamin Robert Haydon
1816
NPG 686
King George IV
by Sir Thomas Lawrence
circa 1814
NPG 123
William Wordsworth
by Benjamin Robert Haydon
1815
NPG 2020
Sir Thomas Stamford Bingley Raffles
by George Francis Joseph
1817
NPG 84
Percy Bysshe Shelley
by Amelia Curran
1819
NPG 1234
Edmund Kean
by James Northcote
1819
NPG 6088
Benjamin Robert Haydon
by Unknown artist
circa 1820
NPG 2802
The Trial of Queen Caroline 1820
by Sir George Hayter
1820-1823
NPG 999
John Keats
by Joseph Severn
1821-1823, dated 1821
NPG 58
Sir Walter Scott, 1st Bt
by Sir Edwin Henry Landseer
circa 1824
NPG 391
Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux
by Sir Thomas Lawrence
1825
NPG 3136
Robert Stephenson
by John Lucas
NPG 5792
Benjamin Robert Haydon
by Georgiana Margaretta Zornlin
1825
NPG 510
George Canning
by Sir Thomas Lawrence
1825
NPG 1832
William Wilberforce
by Sir Thomas Lawrence
1828
NPG 3
Edward William Lane
by Richard James Lane
1829
NPG 940
Sir Thomas Lawrence
by Edward Hodges Baily
1830
NPG 239
Sir Thomas Lawrence
by Unknown artist
1830
NPG 1634
John Loudon McAdam
by Unknown artist
circa 1830
NPG 3686
William Cobbett
possibly by George Cooke
circa 1831
NPG 1549
The House of Commons, 1833
by Sir George Hayter
1833-1843
NPG 54
Sydney Smith
replica by Henry Perronet Briggs
1840 (1833)
NPG 1475
Sir Marc Isambard Brunel
by Samuel Drummond
circa 1835
NPG 89
George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron
replica by Thomas Phillips
circa 1835 (1813)
NPG 142
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