Beatrix Potter to Harry Potter: Portraits of Children's Writers
Porter Gallery
Admission Free
15 May - 26 August 2002
Beatrix Potter
by Delmar Banner
1938
NPG 3635
Supported by
Celebrating a century of children's literature, this exhibition features popular writers and writer-illustrators who have created some of our most enduring fictional characters. Sitters featured include Beatrix Potter, Frances Hodgson Burnett, A.A. Milne, Enid Blyton, Roald Dahl, Raymond Briggs and J.K. Rowling. The exhibition contains works in a variety of media including a 'Reading Corner' and 'Listening Tree', making it enjoyable for both children and adults. An accompanying book features over 50 biographies and is illustrated throughout. Priced £15 hardback.
During the exhibition the Portrait Café will be offering a special Kids Menu for £3.99 consisting of a soft drink, a ginger bread man, ricecrispy cake, jellies and kiddies sandwiches.
Related portraits
- J.M. Barrie (NPG 3420)
- Noel Streatfeild (NPG 5941)
- A.A. Milne; Christopher Robin Milne (NPG P715)
- Beatrix Potter (NPG 3635)
- Pamela Lyndon Travers (NPG 5888)
- Henry Williamson (NPG 5713)
- Dodie Smith (NPG 6423)
- Ted Hughes (NPG P726)
- J.R.R. Tolkien (NPG P843)
- Philip Pullman (NPG P958)
- John Agard (NPG P949(1))
- Malorie Blackman (NPG P949(2))
- Michael Bond (NPG P949(3))
- Jamila Gavin (NPG P949(4))
- Grace Nichols (NPG P949(5))
- Dame Jacqueline Wilson (NPG P949(6))
- Frances Hodgson Burnett (NPG x5179)
- Angela Brazil (NPG x19821)
- Arthur Ransome (NPG x12267)
- C.S. Lewis (NPG x19828)
- Imogen Pollock; Enid Blyton (NPG x47292)
- Edward Ardizzone (NPG x45739)
- Rosemary Sutcliff (NPG x125110)
- Richard Adams (NPG x88200)
- Dick King-Smith (NPG x87184)
- Raymond Briggs (NPG x20064)
- Anthony Buckeridge (NPG x20065)
- William Mayne (NPG x26051)
- Roald Dahl (NPG x125022)
- Nina Mary Bawden (NPG x45968)
- W.V. Awdry; Christopher Awdry (NPG x76551)
- Benjamin Zephaniah (NPG x88746)
- Christine Pullein-Thompson; Diana Pullein-Thompson; Josephine Pullein-Thompson (NPG x87719)
- J.K. Rowling (NPG x88402)
- Sir Quentin Blake (NPG x125005)
- Michael Morpurgo (NPG x125037)
- Anne Fine (NPG x125023)
- Kenneth Grahame (NPG D275)
Related sitters
- Richard George Adams
- John Agard
- Edward Jeffrey Irving Ardizzone
- Christopher Awdry
- Wilbert Vere ('W.V.') Awdry
- Sir James Matthew ('J.M.') Barrie, Bt
- Nina Mary Bawden
- Malorie Blackman
- Sir Quentin Saxby Blake
- Enid Mary Blyton
- Michael Bond
- Angela Brazil
- Raymond Redvers Briggs
- Anthony Buckeridge
- Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett
- Roald Dahl
- Anne Fine
- Jamila Gavin
- Kenneth Grahame
- Edward James ('Ted') Hughes
- Donald Gordon ('Dick') King-Smith
- Clive Staples ('C.S.') Lewis
- William Mayne
- Alan Alexander ('A.A.') Milne
- Christopher Robin Milne
- Michael Andrew Bridge Morpurgo
- Grace Nichols
- Imogen Pollock
- (Helen) Beatrix Potter (later Heelis)
- Christine Pullein-Thompson
- Diana Pullein-Thompson
- Josephine Pullein-Thompson
- Philip Pullman
- Arthur Michell Ransome
- Joanne Kathleen ('J.K.') Rowling
- Dodie Smith
- (Mary) Noel Streatfeild
- Rosemary Sutcliff
- John Ronald Reuel ('J.R.R.') Tolkien
- Pamela Lyndon Travers
- Henry Williamson
- Dame Jacqueline Wilson (née Aitken)
- Benjamin Zephaniah
Related artists
- Don Bachardy
- Jan Baldwin
- Delmar Banner
- Sam Barker
- Herbert Rose Barraud
- Lewis Baumer
- Jason Bell
- David Bennett
- Henri Cartier-Bresson
- Howard Coster
- Carole Cutner
- Michael Dyer
- Elliott & Fry
- Cinnamon Faye
- Duncan Fraser
- Harry Furniss
- John Gay
- Mark Gerson
- Trevor Ray Hart
- Gertrude Hermes
- Eamonn McCabe
- Donald MacLellan
- Murdo MacLeod
- Edward Brian Seago
- Antony Charles Robert Armstrong Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon
- Arthur Strong
- Maud Sulter
- John Timbers
- Anthony Wysard