Britain 1960-1990
Bruce Kent
by Hans Schwarz
1992-1993
NPG 6663
From 18 September 2004
Balcony Gallery
A new display of the paintings and sculpture in the permanent collections from this recent period of our history looks at the Wilson and Thatcher years. Prominent figures from this exciting period include the Cold War Soviet spy John Vassall, the singer and style-setter Elton John and the impresario Lew Grade. Newly acquired representatives of the era include the peace campaigner Bruce Kent and T.H. White, author of The Once and Future King.
Related portraits
- Merle Oberon (NPG 6636)
- Victor Weisz (NPG 6450)
- Bagdad Pact Meeting (NPG 6673)
- (Alfred) Ernest Marples, 1st Baron Marples ('And with a wave of my magic wand, I shall again perform the impossible....') (NPG 5353)
- Alicia Markova (NPG 6163)
- Kenneth Clark, Baron Clark (NPG 5244)
- Change the crew? Why we'll row forever, steady from stroke to bow (NPG 5351)
- 'Conservative planning works' (Reginald Maudling; (Alfred) Ernest Marples, 1st Baron Marples) (NPG 5352)
- 'At least, he's doing something!' (NPG 5354)
- Ninette de Valois (NPG 4679)
- 'Juke box jury' (Harold Wilson; Alec Douglas-Home; Jo Grimond) (NPG 6633)
- William John Christopher Vassall (NPG 6552)
- He followed the choir very well, finishing exactly at the same time, which is important' (Edward Heath) (NPG 6632)
- John Randall Bratby; Josephine ('Joey') Pleasence (née Crombie) (NPG 6555)
- Kingsley Amis (NPG 5920(1))
- Tony Benn (NPG 5920(4))
- Bernard Levin (NPG 5920(16))
- Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton (NPG 5920(23))
- Auberon Waugh (NPG 5920(24))
- Marie Rambert (NPG 4866)
- Learie Constantine (NPG 6015)
- Sir Roy Strong (NPG 5289)
- Clive Jenkins (NPG 5920(14))
- Pandit Ram Gopal (NPG 6812)
- Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton (NPG 5133)
- John Primatt Redcliffe-Maud, Baron Redcliffe-Maud (NPG 5555)
- Harold Wilson (NPG 5047)
- Arnold Lionel David Haskell (NPG 5744)
- Michael Foot (NPG 5920(9))
- Mark Boxer (NPG 5920(25))
- Maggi Hambling (NPG 6562)
- Graham Greene (NPG 5920(11))
- Roy Harris Jenkins, Baron Jenkins of Hillhead (NPG 5920(15))
- Elton John ('On the throne') (NPG 6563)
- Sir Hugh Maxwell Casson (NPG 5920(5))
- Graham Greene (NPG 5574)
- Lord Snowdon (NPG 5920(21))
- Roy Harris Jenkins, Baron Jenkins of Hillhead (NPG 6616)
- Conservative Party Conference, Brighton 1982 (NPG 5843)
- David Martin Scott Steel, Baron Steel of Aikwood (NPG 5920(22))
- Laurence Olivier (NPG 5502)
- Paul McCartney (NPG 5695)
- Elisabeth Frink (NPG 5779)
- Peter Blake (NPG 5845)
- Steven Berkoff (NPG 6560)
- Trade Unionists (Joe Gormley; Thomas Jackson; Sidney Weighell) (NPG 5749)
- Philip Larkin (NPG 5746)
- Francis Bacon (NPG 5818)
- Iris Murdoch (NPG 5921)
- Sebastian Coe (NPG 6565)
- Ian Botham (NPG 5835)
- Geoffrey Howe (NPG 5920(12))
- Dorothy Hodgkin (NPG 5797)
- Sir Frederick Ashton (NPG 6189)
- William Golding (NPG 5922)
- Iris Murdoch (NPG 5944(1))
- Iris Murdoch (NPG 5944(2))
- Iris Murdoch (NPG 5944(3))
- Iris Murdoch (NPG 5944(4))
- Viv Richards (NPG 5999)
- J.G. Ballard (NPG 6557)
- Lew Grade, Baron Grade (NPG 6062)
- Sir Richard Rogers (NPG 6021)
- Eric John Ernest Hobsbawm (NPG 6111)
- Sir Alan Ayckbourn (NPG 6074)
- Zandra Rhodes (NPG 6221)
- Bobby Charlton (NPG 6140)
- T for The Beatles (John Lennon; Paul McCartney; George Harrison; Ringo Starr) (NPG 6672)
- Bruce Kent (NPG 6663)
- Edward Chad Varah (NPG 6225)
- Tony Benn (NPG 6371)
- Michael Caine (NPG 6411)
- Bill Brandt (NPG x40032)
- Queen Elizabeth II (NPG 5882(1))
- Queen Elizabeth II (NPG 5882(2))
- Queen Elizabeth II (NPG 5882(3))
- Queen Elizabeth II (NPG 5882(4))
Related sitters
- Sir Kingsley William Amis
- Sir Frederick William Mallandaine Ashton
- Sir Alan Ayckbourn
- Francis Bacon
- James Graham ('J.G.') Ballard
- Anthony Wedgwood ('Tony') Benn
- Steven Berkoff
- Sir Peter Thomas Blake
- Sir Ian Botham
- Mark Boxer
- Bill Brandt
- John Randall Bratby
- Richard Austen ('Rab') Butler, 1st Baron Butler of Saffron Walden
- Sir Michael Caine
- Sir Hugh Maxwell Casson
- Sir Robert ('Bobby') Charlton
- Kenneth Clark, Baron Clark
- Sebastian Coe, Baron Coe
- Learie Nicholas Constantine, Baron Constantine
- Dame Ninette de Valois (Edris Stannus)
- John Foster Dulles
- (Edwin) Duncan Sandys, Baron Duncan-Sandys
- Queen Elizabeth II
- Michael Foot
- Dame Elisabeth Jean Frink
- Sir William Gerald Golding
- Pandit Ram Gopal
- Joseph ('Joe') Gormley, Baron Gormley
- Lew Grade, Baron Grade
- Graham Greene
- Quintin McGarel Hogg, 1st Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone
- Maggi Hambling
- George Harrison
- Arnold Lionel David Haskell
- Sir Edward Heath
- Eric John Ernest Hobsbawm
- Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin
- Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home, Baron Home of the Hirsel
- (Richard Edward) Geoffrey Howe, Baron Howe of Aberavon
- Thomas Jackson
- Roy Harris Jenkins, Baron Jenkins of Hillhead
- (David) Clive Jenkins
- Sir Elton John (Reginald Kenneth Dwight)
- Bruce Kent
- Philip Arthur Larkin
- John Lennon
- Bernard Levin
- Sir (James) Paul McCartney
- Iain Norman Macleod
- Dame Alicia Markova
- (Alfred) Ernest Marples, 1st Baron Marples
- Reginald Maudling
- Dame (Jean) Iris Murdoch
- Merle Oberon (Estelle Merle O'Brien Thompson)
- Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier
- Cecil Edward Parkinson, Baron Parkinson
- Ann Mary (née Jarvis), Lady Parkinson
- Josephine ('Joey') Pleasence (née Crombie)
- Francis Leslie Pym, Baron Pym
- Dame Marie Rambert (Dame Marie Dukes)
- John Primatt Redcliffe-Maud, Baron Redcliffe-Maud
- Dame Zandra Lindsey Rhodes
- Sir Isaac Vivian Alexander ('Viv') Richards
- Sir Richard George Rogers, Baron Rogers of Riverside
- (John) Selwyn Brooke Lloyd, Baron Selwyn-Lloyd
- Antony Charles Robert Armstrong Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon
- Sir Ringo Starr (Richard Starkey)
- David Martin Scott Steel, Baron Steel of Aikwood
- Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton
- Sir Roy Strong
- Margaret Hilda Thatcher (née Roberts), Baroness Thatcher of Kesteven
- Sir Denis Thatcher, 1st Bt
- Edward Chad Varah
- William John Christopher Vassall
- Auberon Alexander Waugh
- Sidney Weighell
- Victor Weisz
- (James) Harold Wilson, Baron Wilson of Rievaulx
Related artists
- Clive Barker
- Cecil Beaton
- John Bellany
- Sir Peter Thomas Blake
- William Bowyer
- Mark Boxer
- Paul Brason
- John Randall Bratby
- Richard Browne
- Robert Clatworthy
- Angela Conner
- Peter Edwards
- Georg Eisler
- Adrian George
- James Hague
- Maggi Hambling
- Robert Heindel
- Karin Jonzen
- Andrew Logan
- Frederick Edward ('F.E.') McWilliam
- Suzi Malin
- Brigid Marlin
- Humphrey Ocean (Humphrey Anthony Erdeswick Butler-Bowdon)
- Bryan Organ
- Anthony Palliser
- Sir Eduardo Luigi Paolozzi
- Tom Phillips
- Enzo Plazzotta
- Allan Ramsay
- Sarah Raphael
- Martin Rose
- Hans Schwarz
- Emma Sergeant
- Yolanda Sonnabend
- Ruskin Spear
- Graham Vivian Sutherland
- Faith Lucy Tilly Tolkien
- Feliks Topolski
- Andy Warhol
- Victor Weisz
- Astrid Zydower