Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell (1857-1941), Major-General and founder of the Boy Scouts and Girl Guides. Sitter in 56 portraits. Olave St Clair Baden-Powell (née Soames), ...

Following the German invasion of the Netherlands, Belgium and France, Neville Chamberlain resigns and Churchill is appointed Prime Minister making the famous speech: 'I have nothing to offer but blood ...

Explore over 220,000 works, 150,000 of which are illustrated from the 16th century to the present day in a wide variety of different mediums. A Collection of 11,000 portraits, of which about 4,000 are ...

Commemorating Beckford’s death in 1770; a crude image apparently derived from the anonymous mezzotint of 1769. Kirk produced a second medal in 1773. L. Brown, A Catalogue of British Historical Medals ...

Inscr. in pencil at bottom: ‘Miss Florence Nightingale. / At Embley. / December 28th 1857.’; in faded ink at top left-hand corner: ‘49’ (the page no. of Scharf’s notebook). At first sight this drawing ...

Tudor paintings by Hans Holbein the Younger and contemporary photography by Hiroshi Sugimoto meet in the National Portrait Gallery’s first exhibition of historic portraiture since reopening, ...

Architect; with Walter Gropius (partnership 1934-6) pioneered international modernism in Britain in buildings such as Impington Village College, Cambridgeshire (1936). With wife, Dame Jane Drew, ...

In spite of the crown jewels and fine clothes, there is an uncertainty about Charles’s stance that fails to convey authority. The next year Mytens was eclipsed by the arrival of Van Dyck. Cooper, John ...

Friedrich Theodor Müller (born 1797), Artist. Artist or producer associated with 1 portrait. Friedrich Wilhelm Schmidt (born 1787), Artist. Artist or producer associated with 1 portrait.

The son of a cotton-spinner, Frank Stone took up art in 1824 and was apparently self-taught. He settled in London in 1831. His early work involved producing drawings for Charles Heath's Books of ...

This catalogue provides further technical and art historical information about some of the Gallery’s sixteenth and seventeenth century portraits. These pictures have been examined as part of a ...

John Spilsbury was the younger brother of portraitist Jonathan Spilsbury. He was apprenticed to Thomas Jefferys, engraver, cartographer, and map and print publisher, after which he established himself ...