'Work in Progress'

Artistsback to top

• (Juliette) Liberty Blake (1968-), Collage artist. Artist or producer of 1 portrait, Sitter in 1 portrait.
• Jann Haworth (1942-), Artist. Artist or producer associated with 2 portraits.

Sittersback to top

• Diane Julie Abbott (1953-), Labour politician; MP for Hackney North and Stoke Newington. Sitter in 5 portraits. Identify
• Ishbel Maria (née Marjoribanks), Marchioness of Aberdeen and Temair (1857-1939), Promoter and patron of social service enterprises. Sitter in 17 portraits. Identify
• Adwoa Aboah (1992-), Fashion model. Sitter in 3 portraits. Identify
• Nicola Virginia Adams (1982-), Boxer; Olympian. Sitter in 2 portraits. Identify
• Maggie Aderin-Pocock (1968-), Scientist and mechanical engineer. Sitter in 2 portraits. Identify
• Kathryn ('Kate') Adie (1945-), Chief News Correspondent, BBC; writer. Sitter in 3 portraits. Identify
• Eileen Agar (1899-1991), Painter. Sitter in 6 portraits, Artist or producer of 2 portraits. Identify
• Dame Louisa Brandreth Aldrich-Blake (1865-1925), Surgeon; first British woman to obtain the degree of Master of Surgery; daughter of Frederick James Aldrich-Blake. Sitter in 3 portraits. Identify
• Dame Julie Elizabeth Andrews (1935-), Actress. Sitter in 8 portraits. Identify
• Dame Elizabeth Nneka Anionwu (née Elizabeth Mary Furlong) (1947-), Sickle-cell and thalassemia nurse specialist and Professor of Nursing. Sitter in 1 portrait. Identify
• Anne Boleyn (circa 1500-1536), Second Queen of Henry VIII. Sitter associated with 28 portraits. Identify
• Mary Anning (1799-1847), Palaeontologist and fossil dealer. Sitter in 1 portrait. Identify
• Joan Armatrading (1950-), Singer. Sitter in 6 portraits. Identify
• M.I.A (Mathangi ('Maya') Arulpragasam) (1975-), Singer and artist. Sitter in 2 portraits. Identify
• Amma Asante (1969-), Writer and film director. Sitter in 4 portraits. Identify
• Rachel Laura Atherton (1987-), Mountain bike racer. Sitter in 1 portrait. Identify
• Jane Austen (1775-1817), Novelist. Sitter associated with 6 portraits. Identify
• (Phoebe) Sarah ('Hertha') Ayrton (née Marks) (1854-1923), Electrical engineer, mathematician and suffragette. Sitter in 1 portrait. Identify
• Agnes Smyth Baden-Powell (1858-1945), Co-founder of the Girl Guides. Sitter in 1 portrait. Identify
• Lady Evelyn ('Eve') Barbara Balfour (1898-1990), Promoter of organic farming; co-founder and Honorary Life President of the The Soil Association. Sitter in 4 portraits. Identify
• Dame Jocelyn Anita Barrow (1929-2020), Educationist, public servant and campaigner for race equality; Co-founder of the Campaign Against Racial Discrimination. Sitter in 2 portraits. Identify
• Dame Shirley Veronica Bassey (1937-), Singer. Sitter in 24 portraits. Identify
• Mary Beale (1633-1699), Portrait painter. Sitter in 4 portraits, Artist or producer associated with 53 portraits. Identify
• Dame Mary Beard (1955-), Classicist. Sitter in 2 portraits. Identify
• Lady Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby (1443-1509), Mother of Henry VII. Sitter associated with 20 portraits. Identify
• Gertrude Bell (1868-1926), Traveller, spy and archaeologist. Sitter in 2 portraits. Identify
• Vanessa Bell (née Stephen) (1879-1961), Painter; sister of Virginia Woolf. Sitter in 21 portraits, Artist or producer associated with 14 portraits. Identify
• Floella Karen Yunies Benjamin, Baroness Benjamin (1949-), Actress, television presenter, singer, author and life peer. Sitter in 1 portrait. Identify
• Lilian Bland (1878-1971), Aviator, aeronautical engineer and journalist; designed and constructed the 'Bland Mayfly'. Sitter in 1 portrait. Identify
• Boudicca (Boadicea) (died 61 or 62), Queen of the Iceni. Sitter associated with 6 portraits. Identify
• Sonia Boyce (1962-), Artist and professor. Sitter in 3 portraits. Identify
• Alice Helen Anne Boyle (1869-1957), Specialist in nervous diseases, co-founder of the Lady Chichester Hospital and President, Royal Medico-Psychological Association. Sitter in 2 portraits. Identify
• Vera Brittain (1893-1970), Writer, pacifist and feminist. Sitter in 26 portraits. Identify
• Helen Grace Mary Brook (née Knewstub), Lady Brook (1907-1997), Birth control advocate and counsellor; founder of the Brook Advisory Centres. Sitter in 3 portraits. Identify
• Dame (Susan) Jocelyn Bell Burnell (1943-), Physicist and radio astronomer. Sitter in 2 portraits. Identify
• Kate Bush (1958-), Singer. Sitter in 5 portraits. Identify
• Elizabeth Butler-Sloss (née Havers), Baroness Butler-Sloss (1933-), Judge. Sitter in 3 portraits. Identify
• Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879), Pioneer photographer. Sitter in 9 portraits, Artist or producer associated with 119 portraits. Identify
• Marion Barbara ('Joe') Carstairs (1900-1993), Motor-boat racing driver; daughter of Albert Joseph Carstairs. Sitter in 4 portraits. Identify
• Angela Carter (Angela Olive Carter (née Stalker, later Carter-Pearce)) (1940-1992), Novelist and screenwriter. Sitter in 5 portraits. Identify
• Gurinder Chadha (1960-), Film director and journalist. Sitter in 2 portraits. Identify
• Sharmishta ('Shami') Chakrabarti, Baroness Chakrabarti (1969-), Lawyer and human rights campaigner; director of Liberty; life peer. Sitter in 4 portraits. Identify
• Kate Charlesworth (1950-), Cartoonist. Sitter in 1 portrait. Identify
• Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie (née Miller) (1890-1976), Writer; former wife of Archibald Christie, and later wife of Sir Max Mallowan. Sitter in 28 portraits. Identify
• Caryl Churchill (1938-), Playwright. Sitter in 3 portraits. Identify
• Harriet Cohen (1895-1967), Pianist. Sitter in 89 portraits. Identify
• Olivia Colman (1974-), Actress. Sitter in 2 portraits. Identify
• Maureen Morfydd Colquhoun (1928-2021), Politician and local councillor; Labour Member of Parliament for Northampton North. Sitter in 1 portrait. Identify
• Emma Cons (1838-1912), Social reformer and theatre manager. Sitter in 1 portrait. Identify
• Mairead Corrigan-Maguire (1944-), Co-Founder, Northern Ireland Peace Movement, later Community of the Peace People; recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. Sitter in 3 portraits. Identify
• Ellen Craft (1826-1891), Abolitionist who escaped from slavery in the United States. Sitter in 1 portrait. Identify
• Dame Sally Davies (1949-), Chief Medical Officer. Sitter in 3 portraits. Identify
• Mary Delany (née Granville) (1700-1788), Paper collage artist; memoir and letter writer. Sitter in 5 portraits, Artist or producer associated with 3 portraits. Identify
• Dame Judith Olivia ('Judi') Dench (1934-), Actress. Sitter in 14 portraits. Identify
• Dame Jane Beverly Drew (1911-1996), Architect. Sitter in 5 portraits. Identify
• Dame Carol Ann Duffy (1955-), Poet Laureate. Sitter in 3 portraits. Identify
• Jacqueline Mary du Pré (1945-1987), Cellist. Sitter in 17 portraits. Identify
• Joan Kathleen Harding Eardley (1921-1963), Painter. Sitter in 1 portrait. Identify
• Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603), Reigned 1558-1603. Sitter associated with 138 portraits. Identify
• Fanny Eaton (1835-1924), Artist's model and domestic worker. Sitter in 1 portrait. Identify
• Dame Margot Fonteyn (1919-1991), Ballet dancer. Sitter in 51 portraits. Identify
• Rosalind Elsie Franklin (1920-1958), Crystallographer. Sitter in 4 portraits. Identify
• Dawn French (1957-), Actor and comedian. Sitter in 10 portraits. Identify
• Amika George (1999-), Activist. Sitter in 2 portraits. Identify
• Dame Sarah Catherine Gilbert (1962-), Vaccinologist. Sitter in 1 portrait. Identify
• Dame (Valerie) Jane Goodall (née Morris-Goodall) (1934-), Ethologist and conservationist; founder of the Jane Goodall Institute and United Nations Messenger of Peace. Sitter in 5 portraits. Identify
• Carys Davina ('Tanni') Grey-Thompson, Baroness Grey-Thompson (1969-), Wheelchair racer; Paralympian and sports administrator; London 2012 Ambassador. Sitter in 5 portraits. Identify
• Dame Zaha Mohammad Hadid (1950-2016), Architect. Sitter in 7 portraits. Identify
• Joanna Dorothy Haigh (1954-), Physicist; Professor of Atmospheric Physics; Co-director of the Grantham Institute for Climate Change and the Environment. Sitter in 2 portraits. Identify
• Dame Barbara Hepworth (1903-1975), Sculptor; second wife of Ben Nicholson. Sitter in 31 portraits, Artist or producer of 1 portrait. Identify
• Octavia Hill (1838-1912), Social reformer. Sitter in 3 portraits. Identify
• Lubaina Himid (1954-), Artist, curator and professor. Sitter in 2 portraits. Identify
• Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin (1910-1994), Chemist and crystallographer; Nobel Prize winner; wife of Thomas Lionel Hodgkin. Sitter in 19 portraits. Identify
• Eva Maria Charlotte Michelle Ibbotson (née Wiesner) (1925-2010), Children's writer. Sitter in 1 portrait. Identify
• Eleanor James (1644 or 1645-1719), Printer and political writer. Sitter in 2 portraits. Identify
• Amy Johnson (later Mollison) (1903-1941), Airwoman. Sitter in 32 portraits. Identify
• Noor Inayat Khan (1914-1944), Special Operations Executive agent, member of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) and First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (FANY). Sitter in 2 portraits. Identify
• Jessie Marion King (1875-1949), Illustrator. Sitter in 1 portrait. Identify
• Minnie Lansbury (née Glassman) (1889-1922), Suffragette and Alderman of Poplar, East London. Sitter in 1 portrait. Identify
• Twiggy Lawson (née Lesley Hornby) (1949-), Model and actress. Sitter in 32 portraits. Identify
• Vivien Leigh (1913-1967), Actress. Sitter associated with 147 portraits. Identify
• Alice Pleasance Liddell (1852-1934), Inspiration for 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'; daughter of Henry George Liddell. Sitter in 17 portraits. Identify
• Barbara Lisicki (1954-), Comedian and disability rights activist; co-founder of the Disabled People's Direct Action Network (DAN). Sitter in 1 portrait. Identify
• Augusta (Ada) King (née Byron), Countess of Lovelace (1815-1852), Mathematician and computer pioneer. Sitter associated with 8 portraits. Identify
• Dame Ellen Patricia MacArthur (1976-), Yachtswoman. Sitter in 2 portraits. Identify
• Olivia Mary Manning (1908-1980), Novelist; wife of Reginald Donald Smith. Sitter in 8 portraits. Identify
• Jan Morris (1926-2020), Journalist, author and historian. Sitter in 3 portraits. Identify
• Kate Moss (1974-), Fashion model. Sitter in 8 portraits. Identify
• Dame (Alice) Rosemary Murray (1913-2004), Lecturer in chemistry and Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University. Sitter in 4 portraits. Identify
• Grace Nichols (1950-), Children's poet and writer. Sitter in 2 portraits. Identify
• Elsie Queen ('E.Q.') Nicholson (née Myers) (1908-1992), Designer and painter; daughter of Elsie and Leopold Myers. Sitter in 15 portraits, Artist or producer of 1 portrait. Identify
• Florence Nightingale (1820-1910), Reformer of hospital nursing and of the Army Medical Services. Sitter associated with 37 portraits. Identify
• Marianne North (1830-1890), Painter and traveller. Sitter in 3 portraits. Identify
• Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton (née Sheridan, later Lady Stirling-Maxwell) (1808-1877), Novelist and poet; Law reform campaigner. Sitter in 11 portraits. Identify
• Emmeline Pankhurst (1858-1928), Suffragette leader. Sitter in 17 portraits. Identify
• Sylvia Pankhurst (1882-1960), Political activist, writer and artist; daughter of Emmeline Pankhurst. Sitter in 20 portraits, Artist or producer of 3 portraits. Identify
• Lilian ('Lily') Parr (1905-1978), Footballer. Sitter in 1 portrait. Identify
• Sylvia Plath (1932-1963), Poet and writer. Sitter in 5 portraits, Artist or producer of 1 portrait. Identify
• (Helen) Beatrix Potter (later Heelis) (1866-1943), Children's writer, book illustrator and conservationist. Sitter in 7 portraits. Identify
• Dame Mary Quant (1930-2023), Fashion designer. Sitter in 26 portraits. Identify
• Begum Zubeida Habib Rahimtoola (née Chinoy) (1917-2015), Founding member of the All-Pakistan Women's Association; wife of Habib Ibrahim Rahimtoola, First High Commissioner for Pakistan. Sitter in 2 portraits. Identify
• Dame Paula Rego (1935-2022), Artist. Sitter in 4 portraits, Artist or producer of 2 portraits. Identify
• Bridget Louise Riley (1931-), Artist. Sitter in 19 portraits. Identify
• Dame Anita Lucia Roddick (1942-2007), Businesswoman and campaigner. Sitter in 8 portraits. Identify
• Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830-1894), Poet. Sitter in 6 portraits. Identify
• Joanne Kathleen ('J.K.') Rowling (1965-), Writer. Sitter in 8 portraits. Identify
• Dame Joan Mary Ruddock (1943-), Politician; chair of CND and MP for Lewisham Deptford. Sitter in 2 portraits. Identify
• Victoria Mary ('Vita') Sackville-West (1892-1962), Writer and gardener; wife of Sir Harold Nicolson. Sitter associated with 29 portraits. Identify
• Dame Cicely Mary Strode Saunders (1918-2005), Founder of the hospice movement. Sitter in 5 portraits. Identify
• Ethel Scott (1907-1984), Sprinter. Sitter in 1 portrait. Identify
• Mary Jane Seacole (née Grant) (1805-1881), Entrepreneur, nurse, adventurer and writer. Sitter in 2 portraits. Identify
• Jenny Sealey (1963-), Artistic Director for Graeae Theatre. Sitter in 1 portrait. Identify
• Mala Sen (1947-2011), Writer and human rights activist. Sitter in 2 portraits. Identify
• Shulamith Shafir (1923-2000), Pianist. Sitter in 4 portraits. Identify
• Helen Sharman (1963-), Astronaut; Chemist. Sitter in 2 portraits. Identify
• Ling Shuhua (1900-1990), Writer and painter. Sitter in 1 portrait. Identify
• Princess Sophia Alexandra Duleep Singh (1876-1948), Suffragette; daughter of Maharaja Duleep Singh. Sitter in 2 portraits. Identify
• Zadie Smith (Sadie Adeline Smith) (1975-), Writer. Sitter in 5 portraits. Identify
• Dusty Springfield (1939-1999), Singer. Sitter in 33 portraits. Identify
• Charlotte Reinagle Sterry (née Cooper) (1870-1966), Tennis player; Olympian. Sitter in 1 portrait. Identify
• (Irene) Joan Thirsk (1922-2013), Historian. Sitter in 2 portraits. Identify
• Dame Emma Thompson (1959-), Actress. Sitter in 3 portraits. Identify
• Gillian Wearing (1963-), Artist. Sitter in 8 portraits, Artist or producer of 5 portraits. Identify
• Dame Vivienne Isabel Westwood (1941-2022), Fashion designer. Sitter in 20 portraits. Identify
• Alison Wilding (1948-), Sculptor. Sitter in 3 portraits. Identify
• Amy Jade Winehouse (1983-2011), Singer and songwriter. Sitter in 10 portraits. Identify
• Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797), Writer and feminist. Sitter in 7 portraits. Identify
• Virginia Woolf (née Stephen) (1882-1941), Novelist and critic; sister of Vanessa Bell. Sitter in 64 portraits. Identify
• Gina Yashere (1974-), Comedian. Sitter in 3 portraits. Identify
• Yevonde (Madame Yevonde) (Yevonde Middleton (née Cumbers)) (1893-1975), Photographer. Sitter in 15 portraits, Artist or producer associated with 915 portraits. Identify

Related worksback to top

• NPG x86256: Eve Balfour (source portrait)
• NPG P712: Vera Brittain (source portrait)
• NPG x100965: Shulamith Shafir (source portrait)
• NPG 1030: Mary Delany (née Granville) (source portrait)
• NPG P689: Dame Cicely Mary Strode Saunders (source portrait)
• NPG x137618: Mairead Corrigan-Maguire (source portrait)
• NPG P1679: Sylvia Plath (source portrait)
• NPG x133090: Alison Wilding (source portrait)
• NPG 7022: Dame Sally Davies (source portrait)
• NPG x137767: Dusty Springfield (source portrait)
• NPG x131972: Judi Dench (source portrait)
• NPG 3635: Beatrix Potter (source portrait)
• NPG x158757: Dame Louisa Brandreth Aldrich-Blake (source portrait)
• NPG x14197: Vita Sackville-West (source portrait)
• NPG P696: Julia Margaret Cameron (source portrait)
• NPG x200047: Joanna Dorothy Haigh (source portrait)
• NPG x18627: Dame (Alice) Rosemary Murray (source portrait)
• NPG 6840: Dame Zaha Hadid (source portrait)
• NPG 3630: Jane Austen (source portrait)
• NPG 5933: Virginia Woolf (source portrait)
• NPG x136430: Dame Jane Goodall with Figan (source portrait)
• NPG 1237: Mary Wollstonecraft (source portrait)
• NPG 551: Lady Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby (source portrait)
• NPG x82368: Florence Nightingale (source portrait)
• NPG 5175: Queen Elizabeth I (source portrait)
• NPG 4999: Sylvia Pankhurst (source portrait)
• NPG x68245: Angela Carter (source portrait)
• NPG x46503: Vivien Leigh (source portrait)
• NPG x197139: Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton (née Sheridan, later Lady Stirling-Maxwell) (source portrait)
• NPG x133188: Twiggy (source portrait)
• NPG x127165: Dame Jocelyn Anita Barrow (source portrait)
• NPG Ax5534: Ishbel Maria (née Marjoribanks), Marchioness of Aberdeen and Temair (source portrait)
• NPG P1276: Kate Moss (source portrait)
• NPG x42237: Helen Boyle (source portrait)
• NPG 5592: Eleanor James (source portrait)
• NPG x39276: Harriet Cohen (source portrait)
• NPG x39271: Harriet Cohen (source portrait)
• NPG x126829: Amy Johnson (source portrait)
• NPG P2050: Gina Yashere (source portrait)
• NPG x88686: Shirley Bassey (source portrait)
• NPG P620: Yevonde (source portrait)
• NPG D22647: Boudicca (Boadicea) (source portrait)
• NPG x128671: Olivia Mary Manning (source portrait)
• NPG x13745: Bridget Riley (source portrait)
• NPG 1746: Octavia Hill (source portrait)
• NPG x13714: Dame Jane Beverly Drew (source portrait)
• NPG 4385: Gertrude Bell (source portrait)
• NPG x198240: Dame Mary Quant; Alexander Plunket Greene (source portrait)
• NPG x134329: Dame Carol Ann Duffy (source portrait)
• NPG x200717: Sonia Boyce (source portrait)
• NPG x125385: Caryl Churchill (source portrait)
• NPG x32111: Dame Emma Thompson (source portrait)
• NPG D5124: Ada Lovelace (source portrait)
• NPG P991(1): Alice Liddell (source portrait)
• NPG x76929: Rosalind Franklin (source portrait)
• NPG x126717: Gurinder Chadha (source portrait)
• NPG x131966: Amma Asante (source portrait)
• NPG x126501: Agatha Christie (source portrait)
• NPG x200721: Adwoa Aboah; Cara Delevingne (source portrait)
• NPG P1700(11c): Christina Rossetti (source portrait)
• NPG x139735: Marion Barbara ('Joe') Carstairs (source portrait)
• NPG x131986: Dame Vivienne Westwood (source portrait)
• NPG x84516: Begum Zubeida Habib Rahimtoola (née Chinoy) (source portrait)
• NPG x125366: Joan Armatrading (source portrait)
• NPG 7105: 'Sadie' (Zadie Smith) (source portrait)
• NPG 1687: Mary Beale (source portrait)
• NPG 6444: E.Q. Nicholson (source portrait)
• NPG P1831: Nicola Adams (source portrait)
• NPG 6923: Shami Chakrabarti (source portrait)
• NPG x201506: Demonstration of Anti-Racist Committee of Asians in East London (including Mala Sen and Chomok Ali Noor) (source portrait)
• NPG x88514: Barbara Hepworth (source portrait)
• NPG x194159: Emmeline Pankhurst (source portrait)
• NPG x88953: Lubaina Himid (source portrait)
• NPG x134361: Amy Winehouse (source portrait)
• NPG 4331: Vanessa Bell (source portrait)
• NPG x135905: Dorothy Hodgkin (source portrait)
• NPG P1029: Elizabeth Butler-Sloss (née Havers), Baroness Butler-Sloss (source portrait)
• NPG P751(3): Dame (Susan) Jocelyn Bell Burnell (source portrait)
• NPG x199685: Margot Fonteyn (source portrait)
• NPG x139974: Olivia Colman (source portrait)
• NPG P949(5): Grace Nichols (source portrait)
• NPG 668: Anne Boleyn (source portrait)
• NPG 6856: Mary Seacole (source portrait)
• NPG x126911: Kate Bush (source portrait)
• NPG x32781: Eileen Agar (source portrait)
• NPG x132185: Dame Joan Mary Ruddock (source portrait)
• NPG x125687: Gillian Wearing (source portrait)
• NPG x128163: Kate Adie (source portrait)
• NPG x76992: Jacqueline du Pré (source portrait)
• NPG x38120: Dame Paula Rego (source portrait)

Linked publicationsback to top

• Flavia Frigeri, Women At Work: 1900 to Now, 2023, p. 196

Subjects & Themesback to top

• Art in art
• Chairs and thrones
• Commissions - Film and Mixed media
• Dancing
• Disability
• Diversity
• Eyeglasses and spectacles
• Gloves and gauntlets
• Group portraits
• Hats and head attire
• Jewellery - Crowns and tiaras
• Pets and animals - Cats
• Pets and animals - Wild and exotic animals
• Reading
• Transport and vehicles - Wheelchairs
• Words and inscriptions

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