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Sir Francis Drake

by Unknown artist
oil on panel, circa 1581
On display in Room 1 on Floor 3 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 4032

Sir Francis Drake

attributed to Jodocus Hondius, completed by George Vertue
engraving, circa 1583
NPG 3905

Thomas Cavendish

by Jodocus Hondius
engraving, circa 1590-1592
NPG 6677

Queen Elizabeth I ('The Ditchley portrait')

by Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger
oil on canvas, circa 1592
On display in Room 1 on Floor 3 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 2561

John Smith

by Simon de Passe
line engraving, 1616
On display in Room 3 on Floor 3 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 4594

Unknown man, formerly known as James Scott, Duke of Monmouth and Buccleuch

after Sir Peter Lely
oil on canvas, based on a work of 1670
NPG 556

Sir John Chardin with an unknown male attendant

by Unknown artist
oil on canvas, 1711?
NPG 5161

Edmond Halley

attributed to Isaac Whood
oil on canvas, circa 1720
NPG 6377

Sir Isaac Newton

studio of Enoch Seeman
oil on canvas, circa 1726-1730
NPG 558

John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll and Greenwich

by Thomas Bardwell
oil on canvas, 1740
NPG 3110

Unknown man, formerly known as James Bruce

by Unknown artist
oil on canvas, late 18th century
NPG 100

Sir Joseph Banks, Bt

by Sir Joshua Reynolds
oil on canvas, 1771-1773
On display in Room 18 on Floor 3 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 5868

George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney; Sir George Leonard Staunton, 1st Bt

by Lemuel Francis Abbott
oil on canvas, circa 1785
NPG 329

The Edgeworth Family

by Adam Buck
chalk, watercolour and pastel on paper, 1787
NPG L236

Illustration to Ben Jonson's 'The Alchemist'

by Charles Grignion, after John Graham
etching, circa 1791
On display in Room 11 on Floor 3 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG L269.B7.01

Probably George Vancouver

by Unknown artist
oil on canvas, circa 1796-1798?
On display at Captain Cook Memorial Museum, Whitby
NPG 503

Gwyllym Lloyd Wardle

by Arthur William Devis
oil on canvas, 1809
NPG 4265

Joseph Gwilt

by Andrew Robertson
watercolour on ivory, 1810
NPG 6166

John Playfair

by Sir Henry Raeburn
oil on canvas, circa 1811
NPG 840

George Bradshaw

by Richard Evans
oil on canvas, 1841
On display in Room 17 on Floor 3 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 2201

Thomas Henry Wyatt

by George Landseer
oil on canvas
NPG 5710

The Coalition Ministry, 1854

by Sir John Gilbert
pencil, pen and ink and wash, 1855
NPG 1125

Engraving after 'The Coalition Ministry, 1854'

by William Walker, after Sir John Gilbert
engraving, 1857
NPG 1125a

Engraving after 'Men of Science Living in 1807-8'

by George Zobel, and William Walker
engraving, 1862
NPG 1075a

Alfred Russel Wallace

by Thomas Sims
oil over photograph, mid 1860s
NPG 1765

Frederick Burnaby

by James Jacques Joseph Tissot
oil on panel, 1870
On display in Room 24 on Floor 2 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 2642

Sir Edwin Hughes

by Sydney Prior Hall
pencil
NPG 2390

Richard Everard Webster, Viscount Alverstone

by Sydney Prior Hall
pencil, 1888-1889
NPG 2233

Charles Louis de Saulces de Freycinet

by Jean Baptiste Guth ('GUTH')
watercolour, 1891
NPG 4707(9)

Sir Robert Stawell Ball

by Sir Leslie Ward
watercolour, published in Vanity Fair 13 April 1905
NPG 4544

Naval Officers of World War I

by Sir Arthur Stockdale Cope
oil on canvas, 1921
On display at Old War Office, London
NPG 1913

Sir Alan John Cobham

by Frank Salisbury
oil on canvas, 1926
NPG 5018

H.G. Wells

by Robert Stewart Sherriffs
pen and ink, circa 1928-1936
NPG 5224(3)

H.G. Wells

by Bert Thomas
pencil, pen and ink and crayon, 1930s or 1940s?
NPG 4543

Prince George, Duke of Kent; Prince Edward George Nicholas Paul Patrick, Duke of Kent

by Anthony Wysard
pencil and gouache with paper collage, 1936
NPG 6119

Sir Basil Henry Liddell Hart

by Hein Heckroth
oil on board, 1939
On display in Room 27 on Floor 2 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 5907

(Alfred) Duff Cooper, 1st Viscount Norwich; Lady Diana Cooper (Diana (née Manners), Viscountess Norwich)

by Horst P. Horst
vintage bromide print, 1940
NPG P741

Alan Francis Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke

by Yousuf Karsh
bromide print, 1943
NPG P490(1)

Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart

by Cecil Beaton
vintage bromide print on white card mount, 1944
NPG P869(10)

Flora Robson

by Lee Miller
modern contact print from original negative, 1944
NPG P1085