Audio Guide: Victorian and Edwardian portraits
Portraits from the Victorian and Edwardian periods currently on the Audio Guide.
Mary Jane Seacole (née Grant)
by Albert Charles Challen
1869
NPG 6856
The Brontë Sisters (Anne Brontë; Emily Brontë; Charlotte Brontë)
by Patrick Branwell Brontë
circa 1834
NPG 1725
Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Bt
by John Linnell
1838
NPG 772
Charles Dickens
by Daniel Maclise
1839
NPG 1172
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson
by Samuel Laurence, and Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, 1st Bt
circa 1840
NPG 2460
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
by Richard Rothwell
exhibited 1840
NPG 1235
The Anti-Slavery Society Convention, 1840
by Benjamin Robert Haydon
1841
NPG 599
Michael Faraday
by Thomas Phillips
1841-1842
NPG 269
James Thomas Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan
by Sir Francis Grant
circa 1841
NPG 5369
William Wordsworth
by Benjamin Robert Haydon
1842
NPG 1857
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
by John Partridge
1844
NPG 941
George Eliot (Mary Ann Cross (née Evans))
replica by François D'Albert Durade
(1849)
NPG 1405
Sir Charles Barry
by John Prescott Knight
circa 1851
NPG 1272
Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
by Edward Matthew Ward
1853
NPG 4882
The Mission of Mercy: Florence Nightingale receiving the Wounded at Scutari
by Jerry Barrett
1857
NPG 6202
Robert Browning
by Michele Gordigiani
1858
NPG 1898
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
by Michele Gordigiani
1858
NPG 1899
The Relief of Lucknow, 1857
by Thomas Jones Barker
1859
NPG 5851
Jenny Lind
replica by Eduard Magnus
circa 1861 (1846)
NPG 3801
John Laird Mair Lawrence, 1st Baron Lawrence
by George Frederic Watts
1862
NPG 1005
'The Secret of England's Greatness' (Queen Victoria presenting a Bible in the Audience Chamber at Windsor)
by Thomas Jones Barker
circa 1863
NPG 4969
Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha; Queen Victoria
after a marble by William Theed the Younger
1868 (1863-1867)
NPG L179
Ellen Terry ('Choosing')
by George Frederic Watts
circa 1864
NPG 5048
The Landing of HRH The Princess Alexandra at Gravesend, 7th March 1863
by Henry Nelson O'Neil
1864
NPG 5487
Thomas Carlyle
by George Frederic Watts
1868
NPG 1002
Frederick Burnaby
by James Jacques Tissot
1870
NPG 2642
William Morris
by George Frederic Watts
1870
NPG 1078
Sir Richard Francis Burton
by Frederic Leighton, Baron Leighton
circa 1872-1875
NPG 1070
Sir Daniel Gooch, 1st Bt
by Sir Francis Grant
1872
NPG 5080
John Stuart Mill
replica by George Frederic Watts
1873
NPG 1009
William Ewart Gladstone
by Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Bt
1879
NPG 3637
Sir Henry Irving
by Jules Bastien-Lepage
1880
NPG 1560
Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield
by Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Bt
1881
NPG 3241
Charles Darwin
copy by John Collier
1883 (1881)
NPG 1024
Henry Edward Manning
by George Frederic Watts
1882
NPG 1008
Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury
by Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Bt
1883
NPG 3242
The Lobby of the House of Commons, 1886
by Liborio Prosperi ('Lib')
published in Vanity Fair Christmas Supplement 1886
NPG 5256
Joe Chamberlain
by Francis Montague ('Frank') Holl
1886
NPG 1604
Sir William Schwenck Gilbert
by Francis Montague ('Frank') Holl
1886
NPG 2911
Adelina Patti
by James Sant
exhibited 1886
NPG 3625
Lord Randolph Churchill
by Edwin Longsden Long
exhibited 1888
NPG 5113
Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan
by Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Bt
1888
NPG 1325
Private View of the Old Masters Exhibition, Royal Academy, 1888
by Henry Jamyn Brooks
1889
NPG 1833
John Elliott Burns
by John Collier
1889
NPG 3170
Thomas Hardy
by William Strang
1893
NPG 2929
Josephine Elizabeth Butler (née Grey)
by George Frederic Watts
1894
NPG 2194
Edward Carpenter
by Roger Fry
1894
NPG 2447
Aubrey Beardsley
by Jacques-Emile Blanche
1895
NPG 1991
Gertrude Elizabeth (née Blood), Lady Colin Campbell
by Giovanni Boldini
circa 1897
NPG 1630
Octavia Hill
by John Singer Sargent
1898
NPG 1746
Rudyard Kipling
by Sir Philip Burne-Jones, 2nd Bt
1899
NPG 1863
Augustus John
by Sir William Orpen
exhibited 1900
NPG 4252
Gwen John
by Gwendolen Mary ('Gwen') John
circa 1900
NPG 4439
Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell
by Sir Hubert von Herkomer
1903
NPG 5991
Sir Frank Swettenham
by John Singer Sargent
1904
NPG 4837
The Selecting Jury of the New English Art Club, 1909
by Sir William Orpen
1909
NPG 2556



























































