National Portrait Gallery

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...

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...

After Mansfield's death, Woolf wrote in her diary: it seemed to me there was no point in writing. Katherine won't read it.KM appears in episodes in more than one novel by her friend...

Herbert McPherson , whom her will calls a friend and companion during many years of unbroken affection, remains a mystery in FM 's life. The National Portrait Gallery in London holds one engraving...

Three of Gillray 's cartoons of her are in the National Portrait Gallery .

Among other journals, DM has contributed to the Daily Telegraph (where the influence of her writer father got her her first English commission, writing book reviews),Cosmopolitan, and the Times. For the...

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

This was John Opie's second marriage; his first wife had deserted him and their marriage had been dissolved by act of parliament. The second marriage remained childless. John Opie had been enjoying professional success in...

The Fawcett Library (now the Women's Library) in London houses the Suffrage archives, including many of EP 's papers. A sound recording about her, originally an Argo long-playing record, contains a reminiscence by Sybil Thorndike

An oil portrait of Hardie by SP hangs in the National Portrait Gallery . Another, in chalk, is also extant. She produced at this time a self-portrait, also in the National Portrait Gallery, in which...

A statue in her honour was unveiled in Victoria Tower Gardens on 6 March 1930; Dame Ethel Smyth conducted The March of the Women at the ceremony. A portrait done by Georgina Brackenbury hangs in...

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...

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...

The National Portrait Gallery in London held an exhibition of works on ES and her twobrothers , which more than 30,000 people attended.