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The Critics

by Edward Burra
ink, 1932
NPG 6370

Billy Butlin

by Sir David Low
chalk, 1949 or before
NPG 5766

Hugh Cudlipp, Baron Cudlipp

by Henri Cartier-Bresson
bromide print, 1961
NPG P432

Merlyn Evans

by Lord Snowdon
gelatin silver print, 10 July 1963
NPG P1948

George Melly

by Lord Snowdon
bromide print, 9 June 1964
NPG P797(33)

Algy Cluff

by Brian Griffin
bromide print, 1977
NPG P406

Fleur Cowles Meyer

by Bern Schwartz
dye transfer print, 30 November 1977
NPG P1156

Clare Mary Francis

by Bern Schwartz
dye transfer print, 1 July 1977
NPG P1170

Lady Diana Cooper (Diana (née Manners), Viscountess Norwich)

by Bern Schwartz
dye transfer print, 1977
NPG P1223

Len Murray

by Arnold Newman
bromide print, 1978
NPG P150(28)

Enoch Powell

by Arnold Newman
bromide print, 1978
NPG P150(32)

Louis Mountbatten, Earl Mountbatten of Burma

by Bern Schwartz
dye transfer print, 25 April 1978
NPG P1217

Sir Harold Evans

by Lord Snowdon
gelatin silver print, 3 April 1980
NPG P1872

Sir Robin Day

by Rosemary Beaton
oil on canvas, 1985
NPG 5750

Stella Gibbons

by John Hedgecoe
bromide print, 1988
NPG P772

Michael Nyman

by Neil Drabble
bromide fibre print, 1990
NPG P661

Dame Kathleen Ollerenshaw (née Timpson)

by Nick Sinclair
bromide print, 1993
NPG P564(18)

(Keith) Rupert Murdoch

by Sally Soames
bromide print, 1998
NPG P646

Penelope Leach (née Balchin)

by Julia Hedgecoe
bromide print, 13 May 1998
NPG P751(14)

Historians of 'Past and Present' (standing: Eric John Ernest Hobsbawm; Rodney Howard Hilton; Lawrence Stone; Sir Keith Vivian Thomas; seated: (John Edward) Christopher Hill; Sir John Elliott; Joan Thirsk)

by Stephen Frederick Godfrey Farthing
oil on canvas, 1999
NPG 6518

Anna Gwenllian Somers Cocks

by Lucy Anne Dickens
chromogenic print, 31 May 2001
NPG P948(10)

Ray Shannon

by Julia Fullerton-Batten
chromogenic print, 23 February 2006
NPG P1128(11)

'Reaching Out'

by Thomas J. Price
bronze (golden patina), 2021
On display in the Entrance Hall on Floor 0 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG L297

Mr H. Praeger

by Camille Silvy
albumen print, 24 May 1865
NPG Ax64286

Sir (Horatio) Gilbert George Parker, 1st Bt

by Frederic G. Hodsoll
bromide print, 1900s
NPG Ax25176

Sir Arthur Wing Pinero

by Frederic G. Hodsoll
gelatin silver chloride printing-out paper print, 1900s
NPG Ax29622

Unknown editor

by Frederic G. Hodsoll
gelatin silver chloride printing-out paper print, circa 1901
NPG Ax29632

Unknown Advertising Manager of the Daily Mail

by Frederic G. Hodsoll
gelatin silver chloride printing-out paper print, circa 1901
NPG Ax29635

Stephen Phillips

by Frederic G. Hodsoll
vintage print on album page, 1902
NPG Ax29625

Phyllis Dare

by Foulsham & Banfield, published by Rotary Photographic Co Ltd
bromide postcard print, mid 1900s
NPG x138241

Ralph David Blumenfeld

by Frederic G. Hodsoll
gelatin silver chloride printing-out paper print, 1908
NPG Ax29633

David Lloyd George

by James Russell & Sons, published by The Shenley Real Photo Post Card (Percy Redjeb)
bromide postcard print, circa 1910
NPG x197806

Baroness Catherine d'Erlanger and Gerard John Regis Leo d'Erlanger

by Unknown photographer
gelatin silver print; printing-out paper print, circa 1910
NPG Ax105745

Winifred Margaret Coombe Tennant (née Pearce-Serocold)

by Photographia-Presse
bromide press print, 1910s
NPG x194417

Edmund Gwenn; Irene Vanbrugh

by Bassano Ltd
whole-plate glass negative, 1911
NPG x152713

Frances Louise Stevenson

by Olive Edis
platinotype on photographer's card mount, 1917
NPG x16096

Constance Backner

by Bassano Ltd
whole-plate glass negative, 21 May 1919
NPG x154514

The Study in Grace Lowrey (née Woodruff), Lady Ashfield's home

by Bassano Ltd
whole-plate glass negative, 13 March 1919
NPG x183792

Sir Geoffrey de Havilland

by Elliott & Fry
bromide print, mid 1920s
NPG x86985

John Charles Walsham Reith, 1st Baron Reith

by Olive Edis
bromide print, 1925
NPG x12800