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Reference Library
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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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Davis, Jim, 1949–
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Gaunt, William, 1900–1980
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Krolʹ, Aleksandra Efimovna, 1899–
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Layard, George Somes, 1857–1925
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Livingstone, Marco
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Lodge, Edmund, 1756–1839
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McKechnie, Sue
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Rose, Andrea
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Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)
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Russell, Charles Edward, 1860–1941
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Schama, Simon
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20th century
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portrait
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catalog
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history
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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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Conversation piece (Portrait painting)
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Kauffmann, Angelica, 1741–1807 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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National Portrait Gallery (Great Britain)
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National Portrait Gallery (Great Britain) -- Catalogs.
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Portraits -- Great Britain -- Catalogs.
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Portraits, British -- 18th century.
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Silhouettes.
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Women painters -- Switzerland.
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Great Britain
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England
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Switzerland
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Denmark
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Oxford
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Kauffmann, Angelica, 1741–1807
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Churchill, Winston, 1874–1965
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Hockney, David, born 1937
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Johnson, Samuel, 1709–1784
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Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792
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Vigée-Lebrun, Louise-Elisabeth, 1755–1842
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Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Richard A. Richards.
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English
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Russian
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Lodge, Edmund, 1756–1839
Portraits of illustrious personages of Great Britain
1835
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Rose, Andrea
Pre-raphaelite portraits
1981
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Weiss Gallery (London, England)
A noble visage
[2001?]
4
National Maritime Museum (Great Britain)
A preliminary descriptive catalogue of the portraits in oils in the National Maritime Museum, 1961
1961.]
5
Catalogue of the second special exhibition of national portraits
[1867]
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Exhibition of the Eton leaving portraits
1951
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Woodiwiss, John
British silhouettes
1965
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McKechnie, Sue
British silhouette artists and their work, 1760-1860
1978
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Catalogue of the first special exhibition of national portraits ending with the reign of King James, the Second
[1866]
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Spielmann, M. H. (Marion Harry), 1858–1948
British portrait painting to the opening of the nineteenth century
1910
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Piper, David, Sir, 1918–1990
The English face
[1957]
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Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)
British portraits
[1956]
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Portrait of an artist
2021
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Shawe-Taylor, Desmond
The Georgians
1990
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Black, Jonathan, 1969–
Winston Churchill in British art, 1900 to the present day
2017
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Davis, Jim, 1949–
Comic acting and portraiture in late-Georgian and Regency England
2015
17
Dictionary of British portraiture
1979-1981
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Gaunt, William, 1900–1980
Court painting in England from Tudor to Victorian times
1980
19
National Portrait Gallery (Great Britain)
100 portraits
[2016]
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Ayres, Sara
Danish-British consort portraiture, c.1600-1900
2023
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Bodleian Library
Portraits of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries
1952
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Livingstone, Marco
Hockney's portraits and people
2003
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Russell, Charles Edward, 1860–1941
English mezzotint portraits and their states
1926
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Krolʹ, Aleksandra Efimovna, 1899–
Angliĭskie portrety XVIII veka
1939
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Rosenthal, Angela
Angelika Kauffmann
c1996
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Layard, George Somes, 1857–1925
Catalogue raisonné of engraved British portraits from altered plates,
1927
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The British portrait, 1660-1960
c1991
28
Sitwell, Sacheverell, 1897–1988
Conversation pieces;
1969
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Rosenthal, Angela
Angelica Kauffman
c2006
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National Maritime Museum (Great Britain)
Portraits at the National Maritime Museum,
1954-55
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Sitwell, Sacheverell, 1897–1988
Conversation pieces;
[1936]
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Schama, Simon
The face of Britain
[2016]
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Tinker, Chauncey Brewster, 1876–1963
The Wedgwood medallion of Samuel Johnson
MCMXXVI [1926]
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Piper, David, Sir, 1918–1990
The English face
1992, c1978
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National Portrait Gallery (Great Britain)
National Portrait Gallery in colour
1979
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National Portrait Gallery (Great Britain)
British historical portraits;
1957