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William Heath Robinson

by Guy Worsdell
oil on board, 1943
NPG 5906

Noël Coward

by Yousuf Karsh
bromide print, 1943
NPG P490(20)

Eric Newton

by Barnett Freedman
pen and ink and wash, 1943
NPG 6622

James Evershed Agate

by Cecil Beaton
vintage bromide print on white card mount, 1944
NPG P869(1)

Carl Ronald Giles with his wife Sylvia ('Joan') Clarke and musicians, including Butch Shepherd

by Lee Miller
modern archival-toned gelatin silver print from original negative, 1944
NPG P1078

Bertrand Russell

by Sir David Low
pencil, 1945 or before
NPG 4529(321)

Sir John Mills

by Fred Daniels
vintage bromide print, 1945
NPG P390

Archibald John Clark Kerr, 1st Baron Inverchapel

by Yousuf Karsh
bromide print, 1945
NPG P490(41)

Constance Cummings

by Angus McBean
vintage bromide print, 1946
NPG P63

Michael Wilding

by Fred Daniels
vintage bromide print, 1946
NPG P395

Ivor Novello

by Angus McBean
bromide print, 1947
NPG P65

Sir Ralph Richardson

by Angus McBean
bromide print, 1947
NPG P66

Sir Alec Guinness

by Lee Miller
modern archival-toned gelatin silver print from original negative, 1947
NPG P1079

Sir William Turner Walton

by Michael Ayrton
oil on canvas, 1948
NPG 5138

Anatole de Grunwald

by Angus McBean
bromide print, 1948
NPG P889

Patrick Blackett

by Sir David Low
chalk, 1949
NPG 4565

Dorothy Sayers

by Sir William Oliphant Hutchison
oil on canvas, circa 1949-1950
NPG 5146

Bertrand Russell

by Yousuf Karsh
bromide print, 1949
NPG P490(68)

Hugh MacDiarmid

by Lida Moser
bromide print, 1949
NPG P697

Conversation piece at the Royal Lodge, Windsor

by Sir James Gunn
oil on canvas, 1950
On display in Room 28 on Floor 2 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 3778

Christopher Fry

by Angus McBean
bromide print, 1950
NPG P67

Percy Cudlipp

by Sir David Low
pencil, 1952 or before
NPG 4529(98)

J.B. Priestley

by Sir David Low
pencil, 1952 or before
NPG 4529(284)

Nina Hamnett

by Daniel Farson
bromide print, 1952
NPG P288

Harold Rupert Leofric George Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis

by Yousuf Karsh
bromide print, 1952
NPG P490(3)

Richard Burton

by Daniel Farson
bromide print, 1953
NPG P293

Kingsley Amis

by Gordon Stuart
oil on canvasboard, 1953
NPG 6334

Dylan Thomas

by Rollie McKenna
bromide print, May 1953
NPG P1684

Cyril Connolly; Lady Caroline Blackwood

by Daniel Farson
bromide print, 1954
NPG P290

Douglas Fairbanks Jr

by Yousuf Karsh
bromide print, 1954
NPG P490(29)

Augustus John

by Yousuf Karsh
bromide print, 1954
NPG P490(42)

Terence Rattigan

by Yousuf Karsh
bromide print, 1954
NPG P490(66)

Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor (King Edward VIII)

by Dorothy Wilding
cream-toned bromide print, 7 February 1955
NPG P870(14)

George Melly

by Lewis Morley
bromide print, 1956
NPG P512(15)

Harold Nicolson

by Wolfgang Suschitzky
gelatin silver print, April 1957
NPG P307

Thom Gunn

by Rollie McKenna
bromide print, 1957
NPG P1671

Prunella Clough

by Lord Snowdon
bromide print, circa 1959
NPG P797(10)

William Alwyn

by Wolfgang Suschitzky
gelatin silver print, August 1960
NPG P303

Lindsay Anderson

by Lewis Morley
bromide print, 1960
NPG P512(1)

Keith Spencer Waterhouse; Willis Hall

by Lewis Morley
bromide print, 1960
NPG P512(21)

Freddie Trueman

by Wolfgang Suschitzky
gelatin silver print, 1960
NPG P561

Jimmy Savile

by Barry Fantoni
pencil and gouache, 1960s-1970s
NPG 6786

Harold Wilson

by Barry Fantoni
pencil and gouache, 1960s-1970s
NPG 6788

Philip Larkin

by Rollie McKenna
bromide print, 1960
NPG P1675

Joan Plowright

by Angus McBean
bromide print, early 1960s
NPG P908

Hugh Cudlipp, Baron Cudlipp

by Henri Cartier-Bresson
bromide print, 1961
NPG P432

Frank Norman

by Nicolette Meeres
oil on canvas, 1961
NPG 6437

Vita Sackville-West

by Lord Snowdon
gelatin silver print, 5 June 1961
NPG P1917

David Lean

by Angus McBean
bromide print, circa 1961
NPG P900

Johnny Speight

by Lewis Morley
bromide print, 1962
NPG P512(20)

Tony Hancock

by Henri Cartier-Bresson
bromide print, 1962
NPG P725

Ian Fleming

by Cecil Beaton
vintage bromide print on white card mount, October 1962
NPG P869(14)

Michael James Andrews

by Lord Snowdon
bromide print, 7 December 1962
NPG P797(1)

Harold Wilson

by Yousuf Karsh
bromide print, 1963
NPG P258

Harold Wilson

by Yousuf Karsh
bromide print, 1963
NPG P490(88)

Lucian Freud

by Lord Snowdon
bromide print, 17 June 1963
NPG P797(15)

Richard Hamilton

by Lord Snowdon
bromide print, 6 January 1963
NPG P797(17)

Roger Hilton

by Lord Snowdon
bromide print, 21 November 1963
NPG P797(23)

David Hockney

by Lord Snowdon
bromide print, 16 April 1963
NPG P797(25)

Robert Medley

by Lord Snowdon
bromide print, 16 April 1963
NPG P797(32)