National Portrait Gallery

The National Portrait Gallery lists twelve portraits of HLP , dated 1781 to 1811 (though some of these derive from each other and a couple are conversation-piece prints). Sir Joshua Reynolds painted her with her...

AF was painted in a miniature by Peter Cross (now in the National Portrait Gallery ) round about 1690. She left another, later miniature of her by Zincke in her will to Lady Hertford ...

LRR was often painted, both in youth and age. The original Dictionary of National Biography mentions many portraits; Schwoerer's biography reproduces five. A Kneller at Woburn is reproduced in most editions of her letters; another...

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,...

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...

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.

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...

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

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

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...