Making music
Portraits that show musicians making music or holding musical instruments.
Sir Henry Unton
by Unknown artist
circa 1596
NPG 710
Unknown man, formerly known as Daniel Purcell
by Unknown artist
circa 1700
NPG 1463
Brook Taylor
probably by Louis Goupy
1720
NPG 1920
'The Music Party'
by Philip Mercier
1733
NPG 1556
The Shudi Family Group
by Marcus Tuscher
circa 1742
NPG 5776
Charles Rousseau Burney
by Edward Francisco Burney
circa 1775-1780
NPG 1860
Johann Christian Bach
by Thomas Gainsborough
circa 1776
NPG 5557

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Anna Selina Storace
attributed to Benjamin Vandergucht
circa 1790
NPG 6148
Elizabeth Bannister (née Harpur)
by John Russell
1799
NPG 1770
Patrick Byrne ('Irish Harper')
by David Octavius Hill, and Robert Adamson
1843-1848
NPG P6(150)
Sir James Hope Grant
by Sir Francis Grant
circa 1861
NPG 783
Caroline Blanche Elizabeth (née FitzRoy), Lady Lindsay
by Joseph Middleton Jopling
1874
NPG 5401
Alfred James Hipkins
by Edith J. Hipkins
1898
NPG 2129
Harriet Cohen
by Fred Daniels
circa 1921
NPG P381
Jelly D'Aranyi
by Charles Geoffroy-Dechaume
1920s?
NPG 5735
Sir Thomas Beecham, 2nd Bt
by David Wynne
1957
NPG 4221
Lindsay Quartet (Peter Cropper; Ronald Birks; Robin Ireland; Bernard Gregor-Smith)
by György Gordon
2003
NPG 6649