Carving
One of the main techniques used in sculpture, a process of cutting into a hard material such as wood, stone, marble or ivory, and removing it to leave a shape or form. The opposite of modelling.
Susannah Maria Cibber (née Arne)
by Unknown artist
circa 1729
NPG 1984
Alexander Pope
by John Michael Rysbrack
1730
NPG 5854
John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough
studio of John Michael Rysbrack
circa 1730
NPG 2005
Laurence Sterne
by Joseph Nollekens
circa 1766
NPG 1891
Angelica Catalani
by Lewis Alexander Goblet
1820
NPG 5039
Charles Long, 1st Baron Farnborough
by Sir Francis Leggatt Chantrey
1820
NPG 2090
Unknown sitter, formerly known as William Whiston
by Unknown artist
circa 1750-1800
NPG 733
James Joyce
by Renée Mendel (née Rosa Minna Mendel)
1934
NPG 5883
Noel Gilroy Annan, Baron Annan
by Glynn Anthony Williams
1993
NPG 6220
Andrew Motion
by Jilly Sutton
2000
NPG 6543