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Reference Library
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Rare Books and Manuscripts
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National Portrait Gallery (Great Britain)
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National Maritime Museum (Great Britain)
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Piper, David, Sir, 1918–1990
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Rosenthal, Angela
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Sitwell, Sacheverell, 1897–1988
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Ayres, Sara
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Black, Jonathan, 1969–
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Bodleian Library
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Caulfield, James, 1764–1826
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Christie, James, 1773–1831
1
Davis, Jim, 1949–
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Gaunt, William, 1900–1980
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King, Thomas
1
Krolʹ, Aleksandra Efimovna, 1899–
1
Layard, George Somes, 1857–1925
1
Livingstone, Marco
1
Lodge, Edmund, 1756–1839
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Maguire, Thomas Herbert, 1821–1895
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McKechnie, Sue
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Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792
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Accessible by appointment in the Reference Library
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Accessible by appointment in the Study Room
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20th century
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19th century
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21st century
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17th century
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18th century
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portrait
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catalog
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auction catalog
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caricatures and cartoon
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Portraits, British.
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Great Britain -- Biography -- Portraits.
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Great Britain.
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Portraits, British -- Catalogs.
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Engravings, British.
3
Great Britain -- Kings and rulers -- Portraits.
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Art -- Private collections -- Great Britain -- Catalogs.
2
Art -- Private collections.
2
Art auctions -- England -- London -- Catalogs.
2
Conversation piece (Portrait painting)
2
Kauffmann, Angelica, 1741–1807 -- Criticism and interpretation.
2
National Portrait Gallery (Great Britain)
2
National Portrait Gallery (Great Britain) -- Catalogs.
2
National characteristics, English.
2
Portraits -- Great Britain -- Catalogs.
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Portraits, British -- 18th century.
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Portraits, British -- 19th century.
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Portraits, British -- Exhibitions.
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Portraits.
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Great Britain
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England
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Switzerland
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England London
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Europe
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Great Britain Ipswich
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London
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Oxford
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Kauffmann, Angelica, 1741–1807
2
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792
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Bath, Elizabeth Thynne Marchioness of, 1735–1825
1
Brougham and Vaux, Henry Brougham, Baron, 1778–1868
1
Churchill, Winston, 1874–1965
1
Coke, Thomas William, Earl of Leicester, 1752–1842
1
Dunfermline, James, 1776–1858
1
Durham, John George Lambton, Earl of, 1792–1840
1
Grey, Charles Grey, Earl, 1764–1845
1
Hockney, David, born 1937
1
Hollar, Wenceslaus, 1607–1677
1
Johnson, Samuel, 1709–1784
1
Lansdowne, Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, Marquess of, 1780–1863
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Lyndhurst, John Singleton Copley, Baron, 1772–1863
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O'Connell, Daniel, 1775–1847
1
Peel, Robert, 1788–1850
1
Russell, J. (John), 1793–1863
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Shakespeare, William, 1564–1616
1
Spencer, John Charles Spencer, Earl, 1782–1845
1
Towneley, John, 1731–1813
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Exhibition History
Wilde Americk - Discovery and Exploration of the New World, 1500-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-09-27 - 2001-09-27)
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Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Frederick W. Hilles, Yale BA 1922, transfer from the Yale University Library.
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Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Richard A. Richards.
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English
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German
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Russian
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Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792
Engravings from the pictures & sketches painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds
July 1820 [i.e. 1820-1831]
2
King, Thomas
A catalogue of a capital collection of prints, the work of that incomparable artist Wenceslaus Hollar
[1818]
3
Christie, James, 1773–1831
A catalogue of the contents of the very valuable copy of Granger's Biographical history of England, illustrated with upwards of 3300 portraits
[1826]
4
The book of the illustrious
MDCCCXLV [1845]
5
Lodge, Edmund, 1756–1839
Portraits of illustrious personages of Great Britain
1835
6
Vertue, George, 1684–1756
A description of nine historical prints,
1776
7
Caulfield, James, 1764–1826
Calcographiana: the printsellers chronicle and collectors guide to the knowledge and value of engraved British portraits
1814
8
The whole historical dramas of William Shakespeare illustrated,
1811
9
Baziliōlogia
1618
10
Maguire, Thomas Herbert, 1821–1895
Portraits of honorary members of the Ipswich Museum
1852
11
Rose, Andrea
Pre-raphaelite portraits
1981
12
Weiss Gallery (London, England)
A noble visage
[2001?]
13
Black, Jonathan, 1969–
Winston Churchill in British art, 1900 to the present day
2017
14
Shawe-Taylor, Desmond
The Georgians
1990
15
Catalogue of the first special exhibition of national portraits ending with the reign of King James, the Second
[1866]
16
Davis, Jim, 1949–
Comic acting and portraiture in late-Georgian and Regency England
2015
17
National Maritime Museum (Great Britain)
A preliminary descriptive catalogue of the portraits in oils in the National Maritime Museum, 1961
1961.]
18
Catalogue of the second special exhibition of national portraits
[1867]
19
Spielmann, M. H. (Marion Harry), 1858–1948
British portrait painting to the opening of the nineteenth century
1910
20
McKechnie, Sue
British silhouette artists and their work, 1760-1860
1978
21
Exhibition of the Eton leaving portraits
1951
22
Piper, David, Sir, 1918–1990
The English face
[1957]
23
Portrait of an artist
2021
24
Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)
British portraits
[1956]
25
National Portrait Gallery (Great Britain)
100 portraits
[2016]
26
Gaunt, William, 1900–1980
Court painting in England from Tudor to Victorian times
1980
27
Woodiwiss, John
British silhouettes
1965
28
Dictionary of British portraiture
1979-1981
29
Livingstone, Marco
Hockney's portraits and people
2003
30
Ayres, Sara
Danish-British consort portraiture, c.1600-1900
2023
31
Sitwell, Sacheverell, 1897–1988
Conversation pieces;
1969
32
Rosenthal, Angela
Angelica Kauffman
c2006
33
National Maritime Museum (Great Britain)
Portraits at the National Maritime Museum,
1954-55
34
Schama, Simon
The face of Britain
[2016]
35
Piper, David, Sir, 1918–1990
The English face
1992, c1978
36
National Portrait Gallery (Great Britain)
National Portrait Gallery in colour
1979
37
National Portrait Gallery (Great Britain)
British historical portraits;
1957
38
Tinker, Chauncey Brewster, 1876–1963
The Wedgwood medallion of Samuel Johnson
MCMXXVI [1926]
39
Sitwell, Sacheverell, 1897–1988
Conversation pieces;
[1936]
40
Bodleian Library
Portraits of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries
1952
41
Layard, George Somes, 1857–1925
Catalogue raisonné of engraved British portraits from altered plates,
1927
42
The British portrait, 1660-1960
c1991
43
Krolʹ, Aleksandra Efimovna, 1899–
Angliĭskie portrety XVIII veka
1939
44
Rosenthal, Angela
Angelika Kauffmann
c1996
45
Russell, Charles Edward, 1860–1941
English mezzotint portraits and their states
1926