Commissions Films
Please select the playlist symbol in the top left corner of the player to explore more films about portrait commissions.
Find out more about the Gallery’s commissioning programme.
Recent commissioned portraits
Sir Tim Berners-Lee
by Sean Henry
2015
NPG 6996
Simon Weston
by Nicky Philipps
2014
NPG 6984
Shami Chakrabarti
by Gillian Wearing
2011
NPG 6923
Kelly Holmes
by Craig Wylie
2012
NPG 6944
Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge
by Paul Emsley
2012
NPG 6956
Sir Andrew John Wiles
by Rupert Alexander
2015
NPG 6994
Dame Anne Elizabeth Owers (née Spark)
by Diarmuid Kelley
2010
NPG 6898
Helena Ann Kennedy, Baroness Kennedy of the Shaws
by Chris Levine
2013
NPG 6979
Willard White
by Ishbel Myerscough
2009
NPG 6886
Paul Smith
by James Lloyd
1998
NPG 6441
J.K. Rowling
by Stuart Pearson Wright
2005
NPG 6723
Michael Caine
by James Hague
1998
NPG 6411
Judi Dench
by Alessandro Raho
2004
NPG 6671
Paul Nurse ('Paul')
by Jason Brooks
2008
NPG 6837
Prince William, Duke of Cambridge; Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex
by Nicky Philipps
2009
NPG 6876
James Dyson ('James, Inventor')
by Julian Opie
2010
NPG 6917
Steve Redgrave
by Dryden Goodwin
2006
NPG 6767
Julia Catherine Donaldson
by Peter Monkman
2013
NPG 6960
Maggie Smith
by James Lloyd
2012
NPG 6955
Vivienne In Her Garden, London 2014 (Dame Vivienne Westwood)
by Juergen Teller
2014
NPG P1980
Ken Livingstone
by Andrew Tift
2014
NPG 6983
Dame Zaha Hadid
by Michael Craig-Martin
2008
NPG 6840
James Ephraim Lovelock
by Michael Gaskell
2011
NPG 6928
David Beckham ('David')
by Sam Taylor-Johnson (Sam Taylor-Wood)
2004
NPG 6661