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William Makepeace Thackeray

by Unknown photographer
ninth plate daguerreotype in case with lock of hair, 1852-1853
NPG P1996

Oscar Wilde

by Napoleon Sarony
albumen panel card, 1882
On display in Room 24 on Floor 2 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG P24

Oscar Wilde

by Napoleon Sarony
albumen panel card, 1882
NPG P25

Oscar Wilde

by Napoleon Sarony
albumen cabinet card, 1883
NPG P1133

Walt Whitman

by Napoleon Sarony
albumen print, late 1880s-early 1890s
NPG P1700(10b)

Dame Adeline Genée

by Alice Boughton
platinum print, 1914
On display in Room 24 on Floor 2 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG P206

Lee Miller

by Lee Miller
modern archival-toned gelatin silver print from original negative, 1932
NPG P1081

Sir Frederick Ashton

by Lee Miller
modern archival-toned gelatin silver print from original negative, 1933
NPG P1074

John Gielgud

by Carl Van Vechten
vintage print, 1936
NPG P504

Anna Neagle

by McClelland Barclay
oil on canvas, 1940
On display in Room 19 on Floor 2 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 6054

Boris Karloff

by Yousuf Karsh
bromide print, 1946
NPG P318

Dame Elizabeth Taylor

by Yousuf Karsh
bromide print, 1946
NPG P254

Angela Lansbury

by Yousuf Karsh
bromide print, 1946
NPG P490(45)

Dame Elizabeth Taylor

by Yousuf Karsh
bromide print, 1946
NPG P490(74)

Aldous Huxley

by George Platt Lynes
gelatin silver print, 1946
NPG P1686

Stephen Spender

by Irving Penn
vintage bromide print, 1947
NPG P600

Peter Ustinov

by Irving Penn
vintage bromide print, 1947
NPG P602

P.G. Wodehouse

by Irving Penn
vintage bromide print, 1947
NPG P605

Beatrice Gladys Lillie (Lady Peel)

by Yousuf Karsh
bromide print, 1948
NPG P490(46)

Yehudi Menuhin

by Irving Penn
vintage bromide print, 1948
NPG P595

Wallis, Duchess of Windsor

by Irving Penn
bromide print, 1948
NPG P604

Graham Greene

by Irving Penn
vintage bromide print, 1950
On display in Room 28 on Floor 2 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG P592

Dylan Thomas

by Rollie McKenna
bromide print, January 1952
NPG P1685

Edith Sitwell

by Rollie McKenna
bromide print, 1953
NPG P1682

Dylan Thomas

by Rollie McKenna
bromide print, May 1953
NPG P1684

Dame Elizabeth Taylor

by Peter Basch
vintage bromide print, 1955
NPG P786

Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor (King Edward VIII)

by Dorothy Wilding
cream-toned bromide print, 7 February 1955
NPG P870(14)

Wallis, Duchess of Windsor; Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor (King Edward VIII)

by Richard Avedon
bromide print, 1957
NPG P616

Martin Cyril D'Arcy

by Richard Avedon
bromide print, 1958
NPG P235

Ted Hughes

by Rollie McKenna
bromide print, 1959
NPG P1673

Alfred Hitchcock

by Yousuf Karsh
bromide print, 1960
NPG P490(39)

W.H. Auden

by Richard Avedon
bromide print, 1960
NPG P614

John Lennon

by Annie Leibovitz
bromide print, 1970
NPG P627

Wallis, Duchess of Windsor; Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor (King Edward VIII)

by Yousuf Karsh
bromide print, 1971
NPG P490(89)

Mick Jagger

by Annie Leibovitz
bromide print, 1975
NPG P626

Don Bachardy; Christopher Isherwood

by David Hockney
lithograph, 1976
NPG 6024

Sir John Pope-Hennessy

by Arnold Newman
bromide print, 1978
NPG P150(31)

Yoko Ono; John Lennon

by Annie Leibovitz
chromogenic print, 1980
NPG P628

Tom Stoppard

by Irving Penn
vintage gelatin silver print, 1984
NPG P601

Christian Fletcher; Malcolm McLaren

by Annie Leibovitz
chromogenic print, 1985
NPG P629

Sting

by Annie Leibovitz
chromogenic print, 1985
NPG P630

Quentin Crisp

by David Gamble
colour print, 1986
NPG P631

Jackie Collins; Joan Collins

by Annie Leibovitz
chromogenic print, 1987
NPG P623

Margaret Thatcher

by Helmut Newton
bromide print, 1991
NPG P507

Barry Humphries

by Annie Leibovitz
bromide print, 1991
NPG P625

Patrick McGrath

by Sally Soames
bromide print, 1991
NPG P644

Howard Hodgkin

by Annie Leibovitz
bromide print, 1993
NPG P624

Seamus Heaney

by Ross Wilson
charcoal and pencil, surface worked, 1994
NPG 6261

James Ivory

by Don Bachardy
acrylic with wash, 1996
NPG 6372

Joan Collins

by John Swannell
Iris print, 1996
NPG P717(5)

Kate Moss

by Mario Testino
Durst and Lambda bromide print, 1996
NPG P1020

Helen Mirren

by Ishbel Myerscough
oil on board, 1997
NPG 6415

Madonna

by Mario Testino
chromogenic print, 1998
NPG P1019

Ian McKellen

by Clive Smith
oil on canvas, 2001-2002
NPG 6610

Sir Brian Edward Urquhart

by Philip Pearlstein
oil on canvas, 2002
NPG 6618

David Bowie

by Steven Klein
chromogenic print, 2003
NPG P1277

Jan Morris

by Arturo Di Stefano
oil on canvas, 2004-2005
On display in Room 28 on Floor 2 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 6722

'Self-Portrait with Charlie' (David Hockney; Charles Dare Scheips)

by David Hockney
oil on canvas, 2005
On display in Room 30 on Floor 1 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 6819

Sir Tim Berners-Lee

by Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin
chromogenic print, 13 April 2005
NPG P1103

Jony Ive ('Jonathan Ive')

by Andreas Gursky
fine art print mounted on dibond, 2019
NPG P2081