Reading
Portraits that show sitters reading or holding books and other reading material. Explore the full list here.
Thomas Cranmer
by Gerlach Flicke
1545-1546
NPG 535
George Buchanan
after Arnold Bronckorst
1581
NPG 524
Sir Thomas More, his father, his household and his descendants
by Rowland Lockey, after Hans Holbein the Younger
1593
NPG 2765
King Charles I
by Gerrit van Honthorst
1628
NPG 4444
George Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys of Wem
by John Michael Wright
1675
NPG 6047
Frank Nicholls
attributed to Thomas Hudson
circa 1745-1748
NPG 6144
Giuseppe Baretti
after Sir Joshua Reynolds
early 1770s
NPG 6248
Charles Lennox, 3rd Duke of Richmond and Lennox
by George Romney
1776-1777
NPG 4877
Arthur Murphy
by Nathaniel Dance (later Sir Nathaniel Holland, Bt)
1777
NPG 10
Spencer Perceval
by George Francis Joseph
1812
NPG 1031
John Keats
by Joseph Severn
1821-1823
NPG 58
Vincent Novello
by Edward Petre Novello
early 1830s
NPG 5684
Unknown woman, formerly known as Charlotte Brontë
by Unknown artist
1850
NPG 1444
David Wilkie Wynfield
by David Wilkie Wynfield
1860s
NPG P97
Lytton Strachey
by Dora Carrington
1916
NPG 6662
Kingsley Amis
by Gordon Stuart
1953
NPG 6334
Sir Michael Eliot Howard
by Andrew Festing
2005
NPG 6744
Malala Yousafzai
by Shirin Neshat
2018
NPG 7053