Fact Sheets: Portraits

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These links take you to PDFs with information about key portraits in our collection. Each fact sheet is specifically written for teachers.

A close up photograph of a painted portrait of an Egyptian man's face, with thick curly beard and moustache, and thick strong eyebrows. He is also wearing a golden painted wreath in his hair, and the portrait is surrounded by orange-red mummy wrappings.

 

Portraits of mummified people

 

 

 

A painting of an older white man with a blue-grey jacket and waistcoat on. He has long wavy white hair possibly a wig.

 

William Hogarth, George Arnold

 

 

 

 

A painting of a woman in blue, sitting in a cushioned chair, reading a small book.There is a table next to her with a cup on it. The woman has long dark hair falling behind her back.

 

 

Gwen John,  The Convalescent

A painted portrait of an older woman in profile, with a white bonnet on and black dress. She seems to be looking out a window at the cloudy sky.

 

 

George Richmond, Mrs. Fothergill Robinson

 

 

 

 

 

Jacob Epstein, Albert Einstein

 

 

 

 

 

Joshua Reynolds, the Braddyll Family