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- subject matching 'Pets and animals'
The appearance of pets and animals in portraits can give clues to a sitter's lifestyle or social status. Sometimes they are used by the artist or the sitter as accessories, fashion statements or to add interest to a composition. Their appearance can also serve as a symbolic reference. A selection of images that depict real pets and animals or representations of animals. See also: 'Shells and fossils', 'Transport and vehicles - Animals' (Accessory), 'Fur accessories' (Dress) and 'Taxidermy' (Theme)
by Lord Snowdon
gelatin silver print, 26 April 1990
NPG P1852
by Paul Brason
oil on canvas, 1991
NPG 6158
by Nick Sinclair
bromide print, 1993
NPG P564(20)
Alexander McQueen; Isabella Blow
by David LaChapelle
chromogenic print, 1996
NPG P1403
Sarah Lucas ('Got a Salmon On #3')
by Sarah Lucas
Iris print, 1997
NPG P884(9)
by Barry Marsden
colour transparency, 1998
NPG P718(29)
by Leonard William McComb
oil on canvas, 1999
NPG 6516
'The Royal Family: A Centenary Portrait'
by John Wonnacott
oil on canvas on foamboard, 2000
NPG 6479
Sir Hugh Ashley Roberts; Jane Roberts
by Lucy Anne Dickens
chromogenic print, May 2001
NPG P948(34)
Sam Taylor-Johnson (Sam Taylor-Wood) ('Self-portrait in Single-breasted Suit with Hare')
by Sam Taylor-Johnson (Sam Taylor-Wood)
chromogenic print, 2014, based on a work of 2001
On display in Room 30 on Floor 1 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG P959
by Leonard William McComb
oil on canvas, 2003
NPG 7083
Jonny Lee Miller ('Jonny Lee Miller and Ethel')
by Stuart Pearson Wright
pencil, charcoal and wash, 2004-2005
NPG 6753
by Dame Paula Rego
pastel on paper laid on board, 2005
NPG 6746
by Conrad Atkinson
giclée, oil pastel, gilding and collage, 2008
NPG 6953
by Finlay MacKay
archival pigment print, 15 March 2011
NPG P1738
by Finlay MacKay
archival pigment print, 15 March 2011
NPG P1739
Sir Michael Derek Vaughan Rake
by Emma Hardy
chromogenic print, January 2013
NPG P1840
by Josh Olins
digital chromogenic print, January 2016
NPG P2018
Sketches on seven sheets of MS fragments
by George Cruikshank
pen and ink and pencil
NPG 4259
Unknown man, formerly known as Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
attributed to Alfred Edward Chalon
watercolour
NPG 1099
by Unknown photographer
albumen carte-de-visite, 1850s-1860s
NPG x1374
by Unknown photographer
salt print, 1850s?
NPG x87260
by Roger Fenton
salt print, 1855
NPG Ax24909
Lord George Augustus Frederick Paget
by Roger Fenton
salt print, published 25 March 1856
NPG Ax24910
by Unknown photographer
albumenised salt print, late 1850s
NPG Ax196706
by Unknown photographer
albumenised salt print, late 1850s
NPG Ax196708
Horatio McCulloch (Macculloch)
by James Good Tunny
albumen carte-de-visite, 1860s
NPG Ax17267
by Samuel Alexander Walker
albumen carte-de-visite, 1860s
NPG Ax25067
by Frederick Hollyer
albumen carte-de-visite, 1860s
NPG Ax128370
by William Stonehouse
albumen carte-de-visite, 1860s
NPG Ax39745
by Unknown photographer
albumen carte-de-visite, 1860s
NPG Ax46373
by Mark Wynter
albumen carte-de-visite, 1860s
NPG Ax38179
Lydia Foote (Lydia Alice Legg)
by Adolphe Paul Auguste Beau
hand-coloured albumen carte-de-visite, 1860s
NPG x13985
Group of officials and relatives, Simla
possibly by Bourne & Shepherd
albumen print, 1860s
NPG x129636
by Camille Silvy
albumen print, 1860
NPG Ax50231
by Camille Silvy
albumen carte-de-visite, 1860
NPG x12698
John Robert Townshend, 1st Earl Sydney
by Camille Silvy
albumen print, 1860
NPG Ax50001
Lady Edith Christian Fergusson (née Ramsay)
by Camille Silvy
albumen print, 1860
NPG Ax50035
Princess Françoise Marie Amélie d'Orléans, Duchess of Chartres's dog
by Camille Silvy
albumen print, 1860
NPG Ax50052
Eliza Price Noble (née Campbell), Lady Otway (later Mrs Leathem)
by Camille Silvy
albumen print, 1860
NPG Ax50122
Jane Loftus (née Hope-Vere), Marchioness of Ely; Lady Corisande Olivia Bennet
by Camille Silvy
albumen print, 1860
NPG Ax50136
Mary Caroline (née Herbert), Marchioness of Ailesbury
by Camille Silvy
albumen print, 1860
NPG Ax50205
Henry William John Byng, 4th Earl of Strafford
by Camille Silvy
albumen print, 1860
NPG Ax50233
Alice Anne Caroline (née Lambton), Countess of Morton
by Camille Silvy
albumen print, 1860
NPG Ax50271
Sholto John Douglas, 18th Earl of Morton
by Camille Silvy
albumen print, 1860
NPG Ax50272
Robert James Loyd-Lindsay, Baron Wantage
by Camille Silvy
albumen print, 1860
NPG Ax50277
Harriet Sarah (née Loyd), Lady Wantage
by Camille Silvy
albumen print, 1860
NPG Ax50278
by Camille Silvy
albumen print, 1860
NPG Ax50288
George Cadogan, 3rd Earl Cadogan and an unknown man
by Camille Silvy
albumen print, 1860
NPG Ax50322
by Camille Silvy
albumen print, 1860
NPG Ax50337