Derry Moore Photographs
Alan Bennett
by Derry Moore, 12th Earl of Drogheda
1992
NPG P525
Past display archive
6 April - 16 October 2005
Room 37a
Free
This retrospective look at the career of Derry Moore includes works from the last four decades. Moore became a professional photographer in 1971 after studying with the great British photographer Bill Brandt. A tribute to the latter's unsettling and surrealist style can be glimpsed in Derry Moore's early studies of the Rufus Isaacs family posed around a bandstand and an the intimate study of L.S.Lowry taken in the hallway of his home a few months before he died.
Derry Moore, however, is probably best known as a photographer of gardens, houses, and people in architectural interiors. His work has appeared in numerous books including The Dream Come True - Great Houses of Los Angeles, 1980, The Englishman's Room, 1986, Evening Ragas - A photographer in India, 1997 and Inside the House of Lords, 1998. His work which has taken him around the globe has also appeared in the pages of quality magazines such as Country Life, Town and Country, The World of Interiors, Architectural Digest, and Vogue.
Steven John Isserlis
by Derry Moore, 12th Earl of Drogheda
2004
NPG x126961
L.S. Lowry
by Derry Moore, 12th Earl of Drogheda
1975
NPG x126964
Ben Whishaw as Hamlet
by Derry Moore, 12th Earl of Drogheda
2004
NPG x126968
The National Portrait Gallery acquired fourteen of his portraits at the time of his first portrait retrospective held at Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox in 1993. This new display includes the acquisition of several further key portraits from his distinguished career as well as four works specially commissioned by the Trustees of the National Portrait Gallery. These are the studies of the historian Amanda Foreman, the opera singer Dame Felicity Lott, the racehorse owner Sir Michael Stoute and the composer Mark-Anthony Turnage.
Related portraits
- Rudolf Nureyev (NPG P531)
- Alan Bennett (NPG P525)
- John Bayley; Iris Murdoch (NPG P530)
- V.S. Naipaul (NPG x126965)
- Bill Brandt (NPG x126966)
- L.S. Lowry (NPG x126964)
- David Sylvester (NPG x126969)
- Jiddu Krishnamurti (NPG x126975)
- John Frederick Harris (NPG x126976)
- Nigel Nicolson; Adam Nicolson, 5th Baron Carnock (NPG x126971)
- David Bowie (NPG x126970)
- Helena Bonham Carter (NPG x126972)
- Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex; Diana, Princess of Wales; William, Prince of Wales (NPG x126973)
- Sir (Richard) Brinsley Ford (NPG x126974)
- Steven John Isserlis (NPG x126961)
- Gregory Doran; Antony Sher (NPG x126962)
- Ben Whishaw as Hamlet (NPG x126968)
- Mark-Anthony Turnage (NPG x126980)
- Amanda Foreman (NPG x126979)
- Sir Michael Ronald Stoute (NPG x126981)
- Dame Felicity Ann Emwhyla Lott (NPG x126982)
- Alan Bennett and the cast of 'The History Boys' (NPG x126978)
Related sitters
- Samuel Anderson
- Samuel Barnett
- John Oliver Bayley
- Alan Bennett
- Helena Bonham Carter
- David Bowie
- Bill Brandt
- Adam Nicolson, 5th Baron Carnock
- Dominic Cooper
- James Corden
- Sacha Dhawan
- Diana, Princess of Wales
- Gregory Doran
- Sir (Richard) Brinsley Ford
- Amanda Foreman
- John Frederick Harris
- Prince Henry, Duke of Sussex
- Steven John Isserlis
- Andrew Knott
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
- Dame Felicity Ann Emwhyla Lott
- Laurence Stephen ('L.S.') Lowry
- Dame (Jean) Iris Murdoch
- Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad ('V.S.') Naipaul
- Nigel Nicolson
- Rudolf Hametovich Nureyev
- Jamie Parker
- Sir Antony Sher
- Sir Michael Ronald Stoute
- (Anthony) David Bernard Sylvester
- Russell Tovey
- Mark-Anthony Turnage
- Ben Whishaw
- William, Prince of Wales