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William Shakespeare
associated with John Taylor
circa 1600-1610
NPG 1
Benjamin ('Ben') Jonson
by Abraham van Blyenberch
circa 1617
NPG 2752
William Shakespeare
by Martin Droeshout
1632 or 1663-1664
NPG 185
John Evelyn
by Robert Walker
1648-circa 1656
NPG 6179
Samuel Pepys
by John Hayls
1666
NPG 211
Samuel Johnson
by Sir Joshua Reynolds
1756-1757
NPG 1597
Robert Burns
by Alexander Nasmyth
circa 1821-1822, based on a work of 1787
NPG 46
Mary Wollstonecraft
by John Opie
circa 1797
NPG 1237
Percy Bysshe Shelley
by Amelia Curran
1819
NPG 1234
John Keats
by Joseph Severn
1821-1823
NPG 58
Sir Walter Scott, 1st Bt
by Edwin Landseer
circa 1824
NPG 391
Lord Byron
replica by Thomas Phillips
circa 1835, based on a work of 1813
NPG 142
The Brontë Sisters (Anne Brontë; Emily Brontë; Charlotte Brontë)
by Patrick Branwell Brontë
circa 1834
NPG 1725
Mary Shelley
by Richard Rothwell
exhibited 1840
NPG 1235
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
by Samuel Laurence, and Sir Edward Burne-Jones
circa 1840
NPG 2460
William Wordsworth
by Benjamin Robert Haydon
1842
NPG 1857
George Eliot
replica by François D'Albert Durade
1850-1886, based on a work of 1850
NPG 1405
Charles Dickens
by Samuel Laurence
1838
NPG 5207
Robert Browning
by Michele Gordigiani
1858
NPG 1898
Lewis Carroll
by Lewis Carroll
2 June 1857
NPG P7(26)
Charles Dickens
by Herbert Watkins
29 April 1858
NPG P301(20)
William Morris
by George Frederic Watts
1870
NPG 1078
Thomas Hardy
by William Strang
1893
NPG 2929
Rudyard Kipling
by Sir Philip Burne-Jones, 2nd Bt
1899
NPG 1863
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
by Julia Margaret Cameron
3 June 1869
NPG P9
Rupert Brooke
by Clara Ewald
1911
NPG 4911
Virginia Woolf
by Vanessa Bell
1912
NPG 5933
Oscar Wilde
by Napoleon Sarony
1882
NPG P24
Oscar Wilde
by Napoleon Sarony
1882
NPG P25
Henry James
by John Singer Sargent
1913
NPG 1767
Isaac Rosenberg
by Isaac Rosenberg
1915
NPG 4129
Lytton Strachey
by Dora Carrington
1916
NPG 6662
E.M. Forster
by Dora Carrington
1920
NPG 4698
Virginia Woolf
by George Charles Beresford
July 1902
NPG P221
James Joyce
by Jacques-Emile Blanche
1935
NPG 3883
Beatrix Potter
by Delmar Banner
1938
NPG 3635
Isaac Rosenberg
by London Art Studios
circa 1915
NPG P230
Noël Coward
by Clemence Dane
before 1939
NPG 4950
Iris Murdoch
by Tom Phillips
1984-1986
NPG 5921
A.A. Milne; Christopher Robin Milne
by Howard Coster
1926
NPG P715
Seamus Heaney
by Peter Edwards
1987-1988
NPG 6023
Christopher Isherwood
by Humphrey Spender
1935
NPG P41
John Mortimer
by Tai-Shan Schierenberg
1992
NPG 6160
Harold Pinter
by Justin Mortimer
1992
NPG 6185
Alan Bennett
by Tom Wood
1993
NPG 6186
P.D. James
by Michael Taylor
1996
NPG 6361
Derek Walcott ('The Sun Poet')
by Ross Wilson
1997
NPG 6400
Doris Lessing
by Leonard William McComb
1999
NPG 6516
Dame Jacqueline Wilson (née Aitken)
by Maud Sulter
2001
NPG P949(6)
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