Only Connect - installation video
This timelapse video shows the week-long installation of the Only Connect display in room 33.
Only Connect, is an experimental new display presenting a web of portraits connecting sitters across three centuries. Comprising paintings, sculpture, photographs, engravings, drawings, miniatures and works in other media from the National Portrait Gallery's holdings, the display uses musical connections to explore new ways of looking at the Collection.
Related sitters
- Karl Friedrich Abel
- Ludwig van Beethoven
- (Edward) Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten
- Isambard Kingdom Brunel
- Charles Burney
- Angelica Catalani
- James Cervetto
- Harriet Cohen
- Maria Louisa Catherine Cecilia Cosway (née Hadfield)
- Jelly D'Aranyi
- Frances d'Arblay ('Fanny Burney')
- Frederick Delius
- Samuel Dushkin
- Sir Edward Elgar, Bt
- Thomas Stearns ('T.S.') Eliot
- Eric William Fenby
- David Garrick
- Emma, Lady Hamilton
- William Hamilton
- Joseph Haydn
- Dame Barbara Hepworth
- Philip Arnold Heseltine (Peter Warlock)
- Gustav Theodore Holst
- Imogen Clare Holst
- James Henry Leigh Hunt
- Thomas Jefferson
- Joseph Joachim
- Sir Edwin Henry Landseer
- Frederic Leighton, Baron Leighton
- Luigi Marchesi
- Charles Mathews
- Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
- Yehudi Menuhin, Baron Menuhin
- (Johann Chrysostom) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Horatio Nelson, Viscount Nelson
- Nicolo Paganini
- Priaulx Rainier
- George Bernard Shaw
- Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky
- Sir Michael Kemp Tippett
- Lucia Elizabeth Vestris (née Bartolozzi, later Mathews)
- Herbert George Wells
- Dame Rebecca West (Cicily Isabel Andrews (née Fairfield))
Related artists
- Bouch
- Olivia Mary Bryden
- Alfred Edward Chalon
- Conrad Cook
- Milein Cosman
- Richard Cosway
- George Dance
- William Daniell
- Gisèle Freund
- Thomas Gainsborough
- Charles Geoffroy-Dechaume
- Sir Francis Grant
- Sarah Fanny Hockey
- William Holl Sr
- John Callcott Horsley
- Clara Klinghoffer
- Sir Edwin Henry Landseer
- Richard James Lane
- (Percy) Wyndham Lewis
- Samuel Lover
- Friedrich Theodor Müller
- George Newson
- John Nixon
- Sir (John) Bernard Partridge
- Ernest Procter
- Martin Rose
- Sir William Rothenstein
- Friedrich Wilhelm Schmidt
- Lazarus Gottlieb Sichling
- Paul Tanqueray
- Franz Thaller and Matthias Ranson
- Thomas Charles Wageman
- Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller
- Sir Leslie Ward
- George Frederic Watts
- Millicent Woodforde
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