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- subject matching 'Events and occasions'
A selection of portraits depicting special or important events and occasions. See also: 'Processions' (Theme).
The Somerset House Conference, 1604
by Unknown artist
oil on canvas, 1604
NPG 665
The Gunpowder Plot Conspirators, 1605
by Crispijn de Passe the Elder
engraving, circa 1605
NPG 334a
James Scott, Duke of Monmouth and Buccleuch
by Jan van Wyck
oil on canvas, circa 1675
NPG 5376
Queen Anne and the Knights of the Garter
by Peter Angelis
oil on canvas, circa 1725
NPG 624
The Court of Chancery during the reign of George I
by Benjamin Ferrers
oil on canvas, circa 1725
NPG 798
by Philip Mercier
oil on canvas, 1733
NPG 1556
'A Conversation of Virtuosis...at the Kings Arms'
by Gawen Hamilton
oil on canvas, 1735
NPG 1384
by Johan Joseph Zoffany
oil on canvas, 1779-1781
NPG L169
The Death of the Earl of Chatham
by John Singleton Copley
oil on canvas, 1779-1781
NPG L146
by George Carter
gouache on millboard, 1784
NPG 1752
by Karl Anton Hickel
oil on canvas, 1793-1795
NPG 745
by John Eckstein
oil on canvas, 1801-1802
NPG 832
The Trial of Queen Caroline 1820
by Sir George Hayter
oil on canvas, 1820-1823
NPG 999
by Sir George Hayter
oil on canvas, 1833-1843
NPG 54
by Jemima Blackburn (née Wedderburn)
watercolour, 1833-1857
NPG 2772(28b)
The Anti-Slavery Society Convention, 1840
by Benjamin Robert Haydon
oil on canvas, 1841
NPG 599
The Arctic Council planning a search for Sir John Franklin
by Stephen Pearce
oil on canvas, 1851
NPG 1208
Queen Victoria's First Visit to her Wounded Soldiers
by Jerry Barrett
oil on canvas, 1856
NPG 6203
The Mission of Mercy: Florence Nightingale receiving the Wounded at Scutari
by Jerry Barrett
oil on canvas, 1857
NPG 6202
by Thomas Jones Barker
oil on canvas, 1859
NPG 5851