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John Russell, 1st Earl Russell

by Lowes Cato Dickinson
oil on canvas, 1855-1867
NPG 5222

John Timbs

by Thomas John Gullick
watercolour on ivory, engraved 1855
NPG 5011

Humphrey Chamberlain; Agnes Turner (née Chamberlain)

by Benjamin Brecknell Turner
albumen print, 1855
NPG P1003

Unknown man

by Unknown photographer
albumen print, circa 1856
NPG P7(31)

Unknown man

by Unknown photographer
albumen print, circa 1856
NPG P7(33)

Unknown man

by Unknown photographer
albumen print, circa 1856
NPG P7(34)

Unknown man

by Unknown photographer
albumen print, circa 1856
NPG P7(35)

Osborne Gordon

by Lewis Carroll
albumen print, Spring 1857
NPG P7(5)

Thomas Faed

by Herbert Watkins
albumen print, late 1850s
NPG P301(45)

George Cattermole

by William Frederick Lake Price
albumen print, 1857
NPG P1663

Men of Science Living in 1807-8

by Sir John Gilbert, and Frederick John Skill, and William Walker, and Elizabeth Walker (née Reynolds)
pencil and wash, 1858-1862
NPG 1075

Edith Mary Liddell; Ina Liddell; Alice Liddell

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

Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

replica by Franz Xaver Winterhalter
oil on canvas, 1867, based on a work of 1859
On display in Room 15 on Floor 3 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 237

Algernon Charles Swinburne with nine of his peers at Oxford

by Hills & Saunders
albumen print, circa 1859-1860
NPG P416

Charles Samuel Keene

by Horace Harral
platinum print, 1860s
NPG P861

Richard Cobden

by Lowes Cato Dickinson
oil on canvas, 1870, based on a work of 1861
NPG 316

'The Secret of England's Greatness' (Queen Victoria presenting a Bible in the Audience Chamber at Windsor)

by Thomas Jones Barker
oil on canvas, circa 1862-1863
On display in Room 23 on Floor 2 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 4969

Royal mourning group, 1862

by William Bambridge
albumen print, March 1862
NPG P27

Engraving after 'Men of Science Living in 1807-8'

by George Zobel, and William Walker
engraving, 1862
NPG 1075a

Emilia Francis (née Strong), Lady Dilke

by Pauline, Lady Trevelyan (née Jermyn), and Laura Capel Lofft (later Lady Trevelyan)
oil on millboard, circa 1864
NPG 1828a

The Supreme Indian Council, Simla, 1864

by Bourne & Shepherd
albumen print, circa 1864
NPG P426

William Holman Hunt

by John Ballantyne
oil on canvas, 1865
NPG 2555

The Derby Cabinet of 1867

by Henry Gales
watercolour, 1868
NPG 4893

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

Charles Reade

attributed to Charles Mercier
oil on canvas, circa 1870
NPG 2281

Sir Daniel Gooch, 1st Bt

by Sir Francis Grant
oil on canvas, 1872
NPG 5080

Sir Pierre Louis Napoleon Cavagnari with the Sirdars

by John Burke
albumen print, 1878-1879
NPG P330

Dante Gabriel Rossetti; Theodore Watts-Dunton

by Henry Treffry Dunn
gouache and watercolour, 1882
NPG 3022

The Duke and Duchess of Teck receiving officers of the Indian Contingent, 1882

by Sydney Prior Hall
oil on canvas, 1883
NPG 4441

Sheikh Chidda; Queen Victoria

by Hills & Saunders
carbon print, 17 July 1893
NPG P51

John Campbell Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair

by William James Topley
sepia-matt bromide print, circa 1893-1898
NPG P498

Queen Alexandra

after Luke Fildes
oil on canvas, 1920, based on a work of 1894
NPG 1889

Chulalongkorn, King of Siam

by Unknown photographer
vintage print, 1897
NPG P1700(37c)

Herbert Spencer

by Unknown photographer
albumen cabinet card, circa 1898
NPG P514

Sir George Howard Darwin

by Gwen Raverat
watercolour laid down on card, circa 1900s
NPG 2101

Sir Richard Strachey

by Simon Bussy
pastel, 1901
NPG 4596

Dorothea Beale

by G.H. Martyn & Sons
printing-out paper print, 1902
NPG P1700(83d)

The Homage-Giving: Westminster Abbey, 9th August, 1902

by John Henry Frederick Bacon
oil on canvas, 1903
NPG 6058

Quintin Hogg

by Unknown photographer
albumen print, before 1903
NPG P1700(83c)

Maurice Henry Hewlett

by James Kerr-Lawson
oil on canvas, 1904
NPG 2800

Sir Frank (Athelstane) Swettenham

by John Singer Sargent
oil on canvas, 1904
On display at Tate Britain, London
NPG 4837

Lady Ottoline Morrell

by Cavendish Morton
platinum print, 1905
NPG P477

Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour

by John Singer Sargent
oil on canvas, 1908
On display in Room 24 on Floor 2 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 6620

William Nicholson

by E.O. Hoppé
sepia-toned silver print, 1912
NPG P1695

Eric Gill; Alice Mary (née Knewstub), Lady Rothenstein

by William Rothenstein
oil on canvas, circa 1913
NPG 5508

Statesmen of World War I

by Sir James Guthrie
oil on canvas, 1924-1930
On display in Room 25 on Floor 2 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 2463

Constant Lambert

by Christopher Wood
oil on canvas, 1926
On display in Room 25 on Floor 2 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 4443

Violet Trefusis (née Keppel)

by Jacques-Emile Blanche
oil on canvas, 1926
NPG 5229

Douglas McGarel Hogg, 1st Viscount Hailsham

by Aidan Savage
oil on canvas, 1928
NPG 5946

William Plomer

by Edward Wolfe
oil on canvas, 1929
NPG 5172

Lady Cynthia Blanche Mosley (née Curzon)

by Cecil Beaton
gelatin silver print, 1929
NPG P1353

'Like Father: Like Son (XIV)' (Malcolm John MacDonald; Ramsay MacDonald)

by Anthony Wysard
pencil and gouache, published in 'The Tatler' April 1936
NPG 6123

Sir Hugh Walpole

by Stephen Bone
oil on canvas, late 1930s?
NPG 3841

Wallis, Duchess of Windsor; Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor (King Edward VIII)

by Cecil Beaton
bromide print, 2 June 1937
NPG P264

Anne Redpath

by Leszek Muszynski
oil on canvas, 1948
NPG 5171

Sir Osbert Sitwell

by Horst P. Horst
bromide print, 1948
NPG P1662

Joseph Arthur Rank, 1st Baron Rank

by Yousuf Karsh
bromide print, 1949
NPG P490(65)

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

Somerset Maugham

by Henri Cartier-Bresson
bromide print, 1951
NPG P727

Queen Elizabeth II

by Baron Studios
bromide print, 1953
NPG P1436