Joseph Conrad
(1857-1924), NovelistSitter in 23 portraits
Novelist of Polish parentage; became a seaman, and voyaged widely in the East, the setting for many of his most famous novels. Conrad became a British subject in 1886, settled in England in 1894 and devoted himself to literature. He slowly established himself as one of the greatest of all English-speaking novelists, with Lord Jim, 1900, Nostromo, 1904, and Under Western Eyes, 1911.
by William Rothenstein
pastel, 1903
NPG 2097
by William Rothenstein
pencil, 1916
NPG 2207
by Percy Anderson
chalk and wash, 1918
NPG 1985
by Theodore Spicer-Simson
bronze medallion, 1921
NPG 6966
by Walter Tittle
oil on canvas, 1923-1924
NPG 2220
by James Craig Annan
chlorobromide print, 1923
NPG P1130
by Walter Tittle
etching, 1924
NPG 2482
by Jacob Epstein
bronze bust, 1924
On display in Room 31 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 4159
by George Charles Beresford
sepia-toned platinotype, 1904
NPG x6360
by Unknown photographer
bromide postcard print, mid 1910s
NPG x3714
by William A. Cadby
half-plate glass negative, 1914
NPG x4340
by Alvin Langdon Coburn, published by Duckworth & Co
collotype, 11 March 1916, published 1922
NPG Ax7868
by Alvin Langdon Coburn, published by Duckworth & Co
collotype, 11 March 1916, published 1922
NPG Ax7832
by Malcolm Arbuthnot
bromide print, circa 1921
NPG x194069
by International Newsreel
bromide print, May 1923
NPG x194070
after Unknown artist
relief halftone, probably published 1912
NPG D45867
Joseph Conrad listening to music
by Sir Muirhead Bone
drypoint, 1923
NPG D34076
after Sir David Low
photogravure, September 1923; published 13 February 1926
NPG D45868
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