Sleeping
Portraits that show sitters sleeping or at rest with their eyes closed. Explore the full list here.
Unknown man, formerly known as James Scott, Duke of Monmouth and Buccleuch
by Unknown artist
circa 1640s
NPG 1566
King Charles II and Colonel William Carlos (Careless) in the Royal Oak
by Isaac Fuller
1660s?
NPG 5249
Benjamin Robert Haydon
by Sir David Wilkie
1815
NPG 1505
Sleeping Child (Miss Bell)
by David Octavius Hill, and Robert Adamson
1843-1848
NPG P6(170)
William Ewart Gladstone
by Harry Furniss
1880s-1900s
NPG 3381
Charles Edward Conder
by William Rothenstein
circa 1896
NPG 2558
Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery
by Sir Francis Carruthers Gould ('F.C.G.')
after 1896
NPG 2859
Dorothy Deane (Dorothy Ellen Cox)
by Bassano Ltd
March 1919
NPG x103028
Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
by Louis Paul (Alexander Louis Paul)
1920
NPG 4272
Teresa ('Baby') Jungman (later Cuthbertson); Zita Jungman (later James)
by Cecil Beaton
late 1920s
NPG x40246
Two unknown men
by Fred Daniels
1929
NPG x32921
W.H. Auden
copy by E. Maurice Feild
1982, based on a work of 1935
NPG 5544
(George) Gilbert Aimé Murray
by Norman Parkinson
1957
NPG x30064
Walter de la Mare
by Patrick George
1956
NPG 5980
Edith Sitwell
by Mark Gerson
May 1962
NPG x46700
Kin Hoitsma
by Cecil Beaton
1971
NPG x40208
Dudley Moore; Peter Cook
by Terry O'Neill
1975
NPG x34136
Tim Souster
by David Ward
1981
NPG P854