Art Fund Popular Portraits
34 Portraits in set
Objects purchased using an Art Fund New Collecting Award to acquire popular, global and ephemeral portraits for the National Portrait Gallery. Commenced in 2017, this project aims to collect portraits made, owned, displayed and viewed by ordinary people from the medieval period to the present. With a particular focus on pre-1600 material, it explores the ways in which identity was understood and expressed before painted portraiture arrived in Britain in the sixteenth century. Other themes, including ceramic as a medium for portraiture, social and cultural diversity and national heroes will be explored up to the present day. The project aims to demonstrate the impact of portraiture on our everyday visual experience by collecting objects with a range of functions from propaganda to memorialisation.
Unknown sitter ('Bronze relief with bearded face')
by Unknown artist
bronze relief
NPG D48195
Unknown sitter ('Floor tile with an image of a king or queen')
by Unknown artist
earthenware floor tile, lead-glazed, 14th century
NPG D48194
Unknown man ('carved wooden roof boss')
by Unknown artist
carved elm roof boss, 15th century
On display in Room 1 on Floor 3 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG D48634
King William III; Queen Mary II
by Unknown artist
tin-glazed earthenware, painted, circa 1689-1695
On display in Room 7 on Floor 3 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG D48625
by Derby Porcelain Factory
soft paste porcelain, circa 1770
NPG D48654
Princess Caroline of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel
by Unknown artist
lead glazed and printed earthenware, circa 1820
NPG D48191
Ellen Eliza Blight (Bright) ('Death of the Lion Queen')
by Unknown artist
glazed earthenware, circa 1850
On display in Room 13 on Floor 3 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG D48193
by Unknown artist
transfer-printed and hand-coloured earthenware, 1887
NPG D48622
by Wallis Gimson & Co.
transfer-printed and hand-coloured earthenware, 1887
NPG D48623
David Richard Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty; Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig
by Royal Winton
printed pottery, 1919
NPG D48624
Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor (King Edward VIII)
designed by Dame Laura Knight, manufactured by Burgess & Leigh Limited (Burleigh)
printed and painted earthenware, 1936
On display in Room 13 on Floor 3 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG D48190
by Arnold Machin, for Wedgwood and Bentley
transfer relief moulded ceramic mug, 1941
NPG D48652
by Arnold Machin, for Wedgwood and Bentley
transfer relief moulded ceramic mug, 1941
NPG D48653
William Shakespeare ('Shakespeare's Birthplace Stratford Upon Avon')
by Unknown artist, for British Railways
poster, 1948
NPG D48065
Queen Elizabeth II ('A Queen is Crowned')
by Unknown artist
poster, 1953
NPG D48064
Queen Elizabeth II; William Shakespeare (on verso)
after Harry Norman Eccleston, after William Kent
steel engraved currency note, 1970-1991
NPG D48662
Queen Elizabeth II ('God Save the Queen')
by Jamie Reid, after Peter Grugeon, for The Sex Pistols
record sleeve, 1977
NPG D48055
King Charles III; Diana, Princess of Wales
by Unknown artist
printed textile, 1981
NPG D48063
by Rob Adderley, and Ceri Buckmaster, and Staffan Gnosspelius
currency note, 2009
NPG D48057
by Rob Adderley, and Ceri Buckmaster, and Staffan Gnosspelius
currency note, 2009
NPG D48058
by Rob Adderley, and Ceri Buckmaster, and Staffan Gnosspelius
currency note, 2009
NPG D48059
by Rob Adderley, and Ceri Buckmaster, and Staffan Gnosspelius
currency note, 2009
NPG D48060
Violette Reine Elizabeth Szabo (née Bushell)
by This Ain't Rock 'N' Roll, after Unknown artist
currency note, 2011
NPG D48062
by Robert Best, for Mattel Inc
moulded plastic, card and acrylic, 2012
NPG D48051
William Shakespeare ('William Shakespeare Lego Minifigure')
by Unknown artist
moulded plastic Lego figure, 2014
NPG D48054
William Shakespeare ('Shakespeare Duck')
by Unknown artist
moulded plastic, 2018
NPG D48052
William Shakespeare ('Shakespeare Pill Box')
by Unknown artist
metal pill box, 2018
NPG D48053
by Unknown artist
printed pin badge, 2018
NPG D48056
by Unknown artist
printed pin badge, 2018
NPG D48056a
'When Harry met Meghan' (Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex; Meghan, Duchess of Sussex)
by Dan Evans, published by Octopus Publishing Group Ltd
colour offset lithographically printed book, published 2018
NPG D48664
'God Save the Queen' by the Sex Pistols
published by Virgin Records
7" vinyl record, 1977
NPG D48055.1