National Portrait Gallery

A striking photographic portrait of CH by Lena Connell , taken in 1912, is now in the National Portrait Gallery . Connell also photographed other theatre notables such as Edith Craig .

EJ had her portrait painted by an unknown artist (the canvas now resides at the National Portrait Gallery ), wearing a red silk dress and displaying several of her publications including a splendidly bound copy...

MS studied singing for years, flirted with painting (as she put it), and had an enduring love-affair with gardening. A perceptive acquaintance said, Mary paints as if she were writing. She was painted...

The Trustees of the National Portrait Gallery commissioned a painting of PDJ , and she was asked to choose the artist. She enjoyed the thirteen sittings it took for the young painter of her choice,...

This portrait was engraved in the 1770s by Henry Richard Cook , and by Francesco Bartolozzi for S. and E. Harding 's abortive 1793 edition of her Shakespear Illustrated. The painting itself does not...

The National Portrait Gallery holds a painting of NS done in 1926 by Lewis Baumer , in profile, which shows her looking cool and elegant and modern.

Meanwhile the Rice portrait (so called from the family which now owns it) emerged into the light of scholarly controversy. This attractive full-length painting shows a lively, intelligent-looking adolescent girl, dark in colouring, wearing a...

In December 2011 a more formal portrait came before the public as representing Austen. Dated by the (extremely stylish) clothes to about 1815, this drawing in graphite or plumbago on vellum shows a seated woman...

ALB was in general unwilling to have any picture made of her (which casts some doubt on the six images said to be of her in the collections of the National Portrait Gallery ). But...

The National Portrait Gallery holds a painting of GLM as an imposing, unbending figure, her hand possessively placed on a stack of her wrirings.

Sir Godfrey Kneller painted EB 's portrait (now in the National Portrait Gallery ) in this same year.

The painter Marie-Louise von Motesiczky did a portrait of IM in 1964, commissioned by St Anne's College . Years later Tom Phillips painted her for the National Portrait Gallery , posed in front of Titian

JC may have had her portrait painted. A mezzotint by J. Faber, Jr , now in the National Portrait Gallery , has been identified as her, but on very inadequate evidence.

As an old lady MD had her portrait painted by John Opie (now at the National Portrait Gallery ).

Through an innovative blend of historical scholarship and detective fiction, the novel exonerates Richard III for the murder of the little Princes in the Tower, pinning the crime on Henry VII . JT 's...