Victorian and Edwardian portraits
A selection of portraits from 1837 to 1901, many of which are on display at the Gallery. Portraits below are listed in chronological order.
The Novello Family and Friends
by Edward Petre Novello
circa 1830
NPG 5686
The Brontë Sisters (Anne Brontë; Emily Brontë; Charlotte Brontë)
by Patrick Branwell Brontë
circa 1834
NPG 1725
A Consultation prior to the Aerial Voyage to Weilburg, 1836
by John Hollins
circa 1836-1838
NPG 4710
Queen Victoria
replica by Sir George Hayter
1863, based on a work of 1838
NPG 1250
Michael Faraday
by Thomas Phillips
1841-1842
NPG 269
The Anti-Slavery Society Convention, 1840
by Benjamin Robert Haydon
1841
NPG 599
William Wordsworth
by Benjamin Robert Haydon
1842
NPG 1857
Jenny Lind
replica by Eduard Magnus
circa 1861, based on a work of 1846
NPG 3801
Wilkie Collins
by Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Bt
1850
NPG 967
The Arctic Council planning a search for Sir John Franklin
by Stephen Pearce
1851
NPG 1208
Queen Victoria's First Visit to her Wounded Soldiers
by Jerry Barrett
1856
NPG 6203
Lewis Carroll
by Lewis Carroll
circa 1857
NPG P237
The Mission of Mercy: Florence Nightingale receiving the Wounded at Scutari
by Jerry Barrett
1857
NPG 6202
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
by Robert Howlett
November 1857
NPG P112
Isabella Beeton (Mrs Beeton)
by Maull & Polyblank
1857
NPG P3
Lewis Carroll
by Lewis Carroll
2 June 1857
NPG P7(26)
Charles Dickens
by Herbert Watkins
29 April 1858
NPG P301(20)
Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
replica by Franz Xaver Winterhalter
1867, based on a work of 1859
NPG 237
The Relief of Lucknow, 1857
by Thomas Jones Barker
1859
NPG 5851
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
by Lewis Carroll
7 October 1863
NPG P29
Ellen Terry ('Choosing')
by George Frederic Watts
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 Julia Margaret Cameron
1867
NPG P122
Sir John Frederick William Herschel, 1st Bt
by Julia Margaret Cameron
1867
NPG P213
William Ewart Gladstone
by Carlo Pellegrini
published in Vanity Fair 6 February 1869
NPG 1978
Abdülaziz
by James Jacques Joseph Tissot
published in Vanity Fair 30 October 1869
NPG 4707(1)
Frederick Burnaby
by James Jacques Joseph Tissot
1870
NPG 2642
Henry Fawcett; Dame Millicent Fawcett
by Ford Madox Brown
1872
NPG 1603
Sir Pierre Louis Napoleon Cavagnari with the Sirdars
by John Burke
1878-1879
NPG P330
William Ewart Gladstone
by Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Bt
1879
NPG 3637
Louise Jane Jopling (née Goode, later Rowe)
by Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Bt
1879
NPG 6612
Charles Darwin
copy by John Collier
1883, based on a work of 1881
NPG 1024
Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield
by Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Bt
1881
NPG 3241
Oscar Wilde
by Napoleon Sarony
1882
NPG P24
Oscar Wilde
by Napoleon Sarony
1882
NPG P25
Oscar Wilde
by Carlo Pellegrini
published in Vanity Fair 24 May 1884
NPG 3653
Dinner at Haddo House, 1884
by Alfred Edward Emslie
1884
NPG 3845
James Abbott McNeill Whistler
by Unknown photographer
Summer 1885
NPG P356
Lillie Langtry
by Henry Van der Weyde
April 1885
NPG P863
Robert Louis Stevenson
by Sir William Blake Richmond
1887
NPG 1028
The Lobby of the House of Commons, 1886
by Liborio Prosperi ('Lib')
published in Vanity Fair Christmas Supplement 1886
NPG 5256
Emilia Francis (née Strong), Lady Dilke
by Sir Hubert von Herkomer
1887
NPG 5288
Private View of the Old Masters Exhibition, Royal Academy, 1888
by Henry Jamyn Brooks
1889
NPG 1833
Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener
by Sir Hubert von Herkomer, and Frederick Goodall
1890
NPG 1782
Thomas Hardy
by William Strang
1893
NPG 2929
Aubrey Beardsley
by Frederick Henry Evans
circa 1894
NPG P114
Sheikh Chidda; Queen Victoria
by Hills & Saunders
17 July 1893
NPG P51
Gertrude Elizabeth (née Blood), Lady Colin Campbell
by Giovanni Boldini
1894
NPG 1630
George Frederic Watts
by Louis Reid Deuchars, after a photograph by George Andrews
1899
NPG 5223
Queen Victoria
by Bertha Müller, after Heinrich von Angeli
1900, based on a work of 1899
NPG 1252
Rudyard Kipling
by Sir Philip Burne-Jones, 2nd Bt
1899
NPG 1863
'Four Generations' (King George V; Queen Victoria; King Edward VII; Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor (King Edward VIII))
by John Chancellor
1899
NPG P232
Augustus John
by Sir William Orpen
exhibited 1900
NPG 4252
Virginia Woolf
by George Charles Beresford
July 1902
NPG P221
Robert Baden-Powell
by Sir Hubert von Herkomer
1903
NPG 5991
Sir Frank (Athelstane) Swettenham
by John Singer Sargent
1904
NPG 4837
Herbert Henry Asquith, 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith
by Sir Leslie Ward
published in Vanity Fair 14 July 1904
NPG 4945
Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour
by John Singer Sargent
1908
NPG 6620
No work found
Henry James
by John Singer Sargent
1913
NPG 1767