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King Edward VI and the Pope

by Unknown artist
oil on panel, circa 1575
NPG 4165

John Horne Tooke

by John Raphael Smith
pastel, exhibited 1811
NPG 6727

Sarah Sophia Child-Villiers (née Fane), Countess of Jersey

by Sir George Hayter
pencil and watercolour, 1819
NPG 883(14)

Charles Mathews

by Sir Edwin Landseer
pencil, circa 1830
NPG 3097(3)

Sir John Bowring

by Unknown artist
pencil, 1854
NPG 2550

D. Kennedy, J. Smith, Willy Stewart, John Brown, F. Farquarson, John Morgan, Charlie Coutts, P. Robertson and John Grant

by George Washington Wilson
albumen print, 1857
NPG P22(17)

Edith Mary Liddell; Ina Liddell; Alice Liddell

by Lewis Carroll
wet collodion glass plate negative, Summer 1858
NPG P991(3)

Edith Mary Liddell; Ina Liddell; Alice Liddell

by Lewis Carroll
albumen print, Summer 1858
NPG P991(4)

Edith Mary Liddell

by Lewis Carroll
albumen print, Summer 1858
NPG P991(6)

Jane Morris (née Burden)

by Lewis Carroll, after Dante Gabriel Rossetti
photograph of drawing, albumen print, 8 October 1863, based on a work of 1861
NPG P1273(4a)

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

Stanley Owen Buckmaster, 1st Viscount Buckmaster

by Harry Furniss
pen and ink, 1880s-1900s
NPG 3426

Sir William Schwenck Gilbert

by Harry Furniss
pen and ink, 1880s-1900s
NPG 3574

Stephen McKenna

by Harry Furniss
pen and ink, 1880s-1900s
NPG 3489

Oscar Wilde

by Napoleon Sarony
albumen panel card, 1882
NPG P25

William Ewart Gladstone

by Sydney Prior Hall
gouache on millboard, circa 1890s
NPG 2227

Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery

by Sir Francis Carruthers Gould ('F.C.G.')
pen and ink, 1890s?
NPG 2858

Gertrude Elizabeth (née Blood), Lady Colin Campbell

by Giovanni Boldini
oil on canvas, 1894
On display in Room 24 on Floor 2 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 1630

Herbert Spencer

by Unknown photographer
albumen cabinet card, circa 1898
NPG P514

Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury

by Sir Francis Carruthers Gould ('F.C.G.')
pencil, chalk and wash, early 1900s
NPG 2873

William Hillier Onslow, 4th Earl of Onslow

by Sir Leslie Ward
watercolour, published in Vanity Fair 20 April 1905
NPG 5394

Sir (Henry) Rider Haggard

by Harry Furniss
pen and ink, 1910s
NPG 3461

Hazel Lavery

by Baron Adolph de Meyer
vintage bromide print, 1910s
NPG P164

Clementine Ogilvy Spencer-Churchill (née Hozier), Baroness Spencer-Churchill; Sarah Churchill

by Sir John Lavery
oil on canvas, circa 1915
NPG 5184

Lytton Strachey

by Dora Carrington
oil on panel, 1916
NPG 6662

Vanessa Bell

by Duncan Grant
oil on canvas, 1917
NPG 5541

Henry Hinchliffe Ainley

by Harry Furniss
ink, circa 1920
NPG 3414

Elsa Lanchester

by Oriel Ross
pencil, 1931
NPG 6577

Dame Gladys Cooper

by Angus McBean
bromide print, 1938
NPG P916

Walter Sickert; Thérèse Lessore

by Cecil Beaton
vintage bromide print on white card mount, 15 September 1940
NPG P869(21)

Sidney James Webb, Baron Passfield; Beatrice Webb

by Unknown photographer
matte bromide print, 13 September 1941
NPG P1292(59)

James Evershed Agate

by Angus McBean
vintage bromide print, 1947
NPG P617

Girl in Bed

by Lucian Freud
oil on canvas, 1952
On display in Room 26 on Floor 2 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG L258

Joyce Cary

by Katerina Wilczynski
pen and ink, 1954
NPG 4822

Dame Elizabeth Taylor

by Peter Basch
vintage bromide print, 1955
NPG P786

The Bevans (Aneurin Bevan; Jennie Lee; Karol Keres; Pietro Nenni)

by Henri Cartier-Bresson
bromide print, 1957
NPG P431

David Lean

by Angus McBean
bromide print, circa 1961
NPG P900

Jean Shrimpton

by David Bailey
bromide print, 1963
NPG P954

Elizabeth Hester Douglas-Home, Baroness Home of the Hirsel; Alec Douglas-Home

by Eve Arnold
bromide print, 1964
NPG P522

Anthony Eric Sandall Green (' Self-portrait in Father's Chair')

by Anthony Eric Sandall Green
pencil, 1967
NPG 6106