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Oscar Wilde

by Unknown photographer
snapshot photograph, Spring 1900
NPG P317

Lewis Carroll; Harry Furniss

by Harry Furniss
pen and ink, before 1901
NPG 3567

John Edward Bernard Seely, 1st Baron Mottistone

by Sir Leslie Ward
watercolour, published in Vanity Fair 23 February 1905
NPG 2967

Sir Thomas Brock

by Sir Leslie Ward
pencil, watercolour and gouache, 1905
NPG 5393

Charles Burgess Fry

by Albert Chevallier Tayler, after a photograph by George William Beldam
lithograph, 1905
NPG 5953

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

H.G. Wells

by Claud Lovat Fraser
charcoal and wash, 1910s?
NPG 5071

Laura Knight with model, Ella Louise Naper ('Self Portrait')

by Laura Knight
oil on canvas, 1913
On display in Room 24 on Floor 2 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 4839

Gordon Craig

by Edward Steichen
photogravure, 1913
NPG P228

T.E. Lawrence

by B.E. Leeson
bromide print, 1917
NPG P324

Josef Holbrooke

by Walter Benington
gelatin silver print, late 1910s
NPG P983

George Arliss

by Baron Adolph de Meyer
vintage bromide print, 1918
NPG P167

Eric Portman

by Harrington Neilson
sepia-toned bromide print, 1920s
NPG P502

Gerald Brenan

by (Charles) John Hope-Johnstone
platinum print, 1922
NPG P134(21)

David Lloyd George

by Sir William Orpen
oil on canvas, 1927
NPG 3244

Sir (Edward) Guy Dawber

by Sir Gerald Kelly
oil on canvas, 1927
NPG 6900

Roger Fry

by Ramsey & Muspratt
bromide print, 1932
NPG P363(10)

Paul Nash

by Helen Muspratt
bromide print, 1932
NPG P569

Sidney James Webb, Baron Passfield

by Unknown photographer
vintage snapshot print, 1933
NPG P1292(33)

Sir Cedric Webster Hardwicke

by Dorothy Wilding
chlorobromide print on tissue and card mount, 1933
NPG P870(8)

King George VI

by Bertram Park
bromide print, circa 1936
NPG P140(6)

Eileen Agar

by Lee Miller
modern archival-toned gelatin silver print from original negative, 1937
NPG P1073

Eddie Hapgood

by Fred Daniels
vintage bromide print, 1939
NPG P385

Vivien Leigh

by Laszlo Willinger
bromide print, 1940
NPG P238

Laurence Olivier

by Laszlo Willinger
bromide print, 1940
NPG P236

Irene Vanbrugh as Catherine of Braganza

by Germaine Kanova
bromide print, 1940
NPG P300

Angus McBean

by Angus McBean
bromide print, 1945
NPG P933

Berto Pasuka

by Angus McBean
vintage bromide print, published in Ballet January 1946
NPG P1305

Aldous Huxley

by George Platt Lynes
gelatin silver print, 1946
NPG P1686

Sir Osbert Sitwell

by Horst P. Horst
bromide print, 1948
NPG P1662

Sir Eduardo Paolozzi

by Lee Miller
modern archival-toned gelatin silver print from original negative, 1948
NPG P1084

Joseph Arthur Rank, 1st Baron Rank

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

Sir Robert Murray Helpmann

by Angus McBean
bromide print, 1950
NPG P61

Sir Stanley Spencer

by Irving Penn
vintage bromide print, 1950
NPG P599

Sir Frederick Ashton

by Cecil Beaton
vintage bromide print on white card mount, 1950
NPG P869(2)

Roy Campbell

by Jane Bown
bromide print, 1951
NPG P378

David Emery Gascoyne

by Rollie McKenna
bromide print, 1951
NPG P1669

Nancy Spain

by Angus McBean
bromide print, 1951
NPG P909

Dylan Thomas

by Rollie McKenna
bromide print, January 1952
NPG P1685

T.S. Eliot; (Esme) Valerie Eliot (née Fletcher)

by Angus McBean
bromide print, 1957
NPG P891