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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
On display in Room 2 at the National Portrait Gallery
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
On display in Room 10 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 1384
by Johan Joseph Zoffany
oil on canvas, 1779-1781
On display in Room 12 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG L169
The Death of the Earl of Chatham
by John Singleton Copley
oil on canvas, 1779-1781
On display in Room 14 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG L146
by George Carter
gouache on millboard, 1784
NPG 1752
by Karl Anton Hickel
oil on canvas, 1793-1795
NPG 745
The Trial of Queen Caroline 1820
by Sir George Hayter
oil on canvas, 1820-1823
On display in Room 17 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 999
by Sir George Hayter
oil on canvas, 1833-1843
On display in Room 20 at the National Portrait Gallery
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
On display in Room 20 at the National Portrait Gallery
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
On display in Room 23 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 6203
The Mission of Mercy: Florence Nightingale receiving the Wounded at Scutari
by Jerry Barrett
oil on canvas, 1857
On display in Room 23 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 6202
by Thomas Jones Barker
oil on canvas, 1859
On display in Room 23 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 5851
The Funeral of Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
by Sir George Scharf
pen and ink, 1860
NPG 2689