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William Makepeace Thackeray

by Unknown photographer
ninth plate daguerreotype in case with lock of hair, 1852-1853
NPG P1996

Oscar Wilde

by Napoleon Sarony
albumen panel card, 1882
NPG P24

Oscar Wilde

by Napoleon Sarony
albumen panel card, 1882
NPG P25

Oscar Wilde

by Napoleon Sarony
albumen cabinet card, 1883
NPG P1133

Walt Whitman

by Napoleon Sarony
albumen print, late 1880s-early 1890s
NPG P1700(10b)

Dame Adeline Genée

by Alice Boughton
platinum print, 1914
NPG P206

Lee Miller

by Lee Miller
modern archival-toned gelatin silver print from original negative, 1932
NPG P1081

Sir Frederick Ashton

by Lee Miller
modern archival-toned gelatin silver print from original negative, 1933
NPG P1074

John Gielgud

by Carl Van Vechten
vintage print, 1936
NPG P504

Anna Neagle

by McClelland Barclay
oil on canvas, 1940
On display in Room 31 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 6054

Boris Karloff

by Yousuf Karsh
bromide print, 1946
NPG P318

Dame Elizabeth Taylor

by Yousuf Karsh
bromide print, 1946
NPG P254

Angela Lansbury

by Yousuf Karsh
bromide print, 1946
NPG P490(45)

Dame Elizabeth Taylor

by Yousuf Karsh
bromide print, 1946
NPG P490(74)

Aldous Huxley

by George Platt Lynes
gelatin silver print, 1946
NPG P1686

Stephen Spender

by Irving Penn
vintage bromide print, 1947
NPG P600

Peter Ustinov

by Irving Penn
vintage bromide print, 1947
NPG P602

P.G. Wodehouse

by Irving Penn
vintage bromide print, 1947
NPG P605

Beatrice Gladys Lillie (Lady Peel)

by Yousuf Karsh
bromide print, 1948
NPG P490(46)

Yehudi Menuhin

by Irving Penn
vintage bromide print, 1948
NPG P595