Beside the seaside
To celebrate August and the Summer holidays here are a selection of our portraits beside the seaside.
Prints from the National Portrait Gallery collection are available to buy from as little as £6.00. To order, select your image and then on the next page click on the 'Buy a print of this image' link beneath it. You can choose unframed prints, starting from £6, and framed prints, starting from £25. Sizes available: 15 x 10 cm on satin paper, A4, A3 and A2 prints on art etch and satin paper and A3 images on A2 canvas. International shipping available.
Can't find quite the right portrait for you? If you wish to see more images showing water in all its forms, please browse here.
'The Siren Galop'
by Alfred Concanen, and by Thomas Wales Lee, printed by Stannard & Dixon, published by John Blockley, and published by Cramer, Beale & Wood
1860s
NPG D42816
Study of an unknown woman on the beach
by George Estall
late 19th century
NPG D23202
Gabrielle Ray
by Bassano Ltd, published by Aristophot Co Ltd
1900s
NPG x198011
Lady Ottoline Morrell
by Philip Edward Morrell
1910
NPG Ax140239
Gabrielle Ray
by Bassano Ltd, published by Aristophot Co Ltd
circa 1910
NPG x160565
Eileen Smith
by Bassano Ltd
23 August 1910
NPG x81060
Julian Vinogradoff (née Morrell); Lady Ottoline Morrell
by Philip Edward Morrell
1910-1911
NPG Ax140263
Marjorie Strachey; Clive Bell
by Unknown photographer
1910
NPG Ax160973
Julian Vinogradoff (née Morrell)
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
1912
NPG Ax140292
Lytton Strachey
by Unknown photographer
1916
NPG Ax143311
Rauf Mansel
by Bassano Ltd
22 March 1921
NPG x37093
Winifred Barnes
by Bassano Ltd
10 June 1924
NPG x101045
Dame Myra Hess
by Unknown photographer
April-May 1926
NPG Ax183800
Mercedes Gleitze
by Underwood & Underwood
26 June 1928
NPG x136729
Baroness Catherine d'Erlanger and an unknown man
by Unknown photographer
circa 1932
NPG Ax135995
Harriet Cohen and unknown man
by Unknown photographer
1930s
NPG x39409
Phyllis Calvert during the filming of 'The Golden Madonna'
by Francis Goodman
1948
NPG Ax39683
Angus McBean
by Angus McBean
1951
NPG P936
David Ball; Angus McBean
by Angus McBean
1956
NPG x39318
William Ninnes; Alan Bailey Lowndes
by Ida Kar
1961
NPG x134153
Patricia ('Bubbles') Evelyn Beverly Harmsworth (née Matthews), Viscountess Rothermere
by Francis Goodman
1964
NPG x87482
Ian Fleming
by Francis Goodman
1964
NPG x195031
Ethel Drew (Ethel Hyde-White, née Korenman); Wilfred Hyde-White
by Francis Goodman
1969
NPG x195055
Minah Bird; Peter Everard Smith; Suzy Thirkell
by Lewis Morley
13 May 1970
NPG x38952