(Hardback)
By: Brandon Brame Fortune
ISBN: 9783777432236
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2019
Publisher: Hirmer Verlag
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(Hardback)
By: David H. Solkin
ISBN: 9781855147904
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2019
Publisher: National Portrait Gallery Publications
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(Paperback)
By: Tanya Bentley
ISBN: 9781855145443
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2025
UK Publication Date: 11th July 2024
Publisher: National Portrait Gallery Publications
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(Hardback)
By: The Duchess of Cambridge Patron of the National Portrait Gallery
ISBN: 9781855147386
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2021
UK Publication Date: 7th May 2021
Publisher: National Portrait Gallery Publications
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Focused on three key themes Helpers and Heroes, Your New Normal and Acts of Kindness, this book presents a unique portrait of the UK during the 2020 lockdown, through 100 community photographs.
(Hardback)
By: Rab MacGibbon
ISBN: 9781855147188
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2021
UK Publication Date: 1st April 2021
Publisher: National Portrait Gallery Publications
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Icons and Identities explores the portrayal of people as a human preoccupation from prehistoric art to digital media. Featuring internationally recognised sitters, it shows how artists in the western tradition have engaged with this fascination and made artworks with a remarkable diversity of form and function.
(Hardback)
By: James Hall
ISBN: 9780500027271
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2024
UK Publication Date: 2nd May 2024
Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd
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Excerpts from art critic, historian, lecturer, and broadcaster James Hall's lively and comprehensive cultural history of self-portraiture, focusing on artists including Drer, Gentileschi, Van Gogh, and Kahlo.
(Paperback)
By: David Williamson
ISBN: 9781855144323
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2013
Publisher: National Portrait Gallery Publications
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David Williamsons text paints a vivid and sensitive portrait of each monarch, revealing the dramatic events and controversies that surrounded them. With a rich selection of images, anecdotes, comprehensive fact boxes and clear family trees, National Portrait Gallery Kings & Queens will appeal to everyone with an interest in history or the British monarchy.
(Hardback)
By: Louise Stewart
ISBN: 9781855147034
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2020
UK Publication Date: 10th September 2020
Publisher: National Portrait Gallery Publications
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(Paperback)
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2017
Publisher: National Portrait Gallery Publications
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100 Portraits presents a selection of images of significant individuals who have shaped the last four centuries of British life, from Anne Boleyn to David Beckham, from William Shakespeare to J.K. Rowling, portrayed by artists as diverse as Joshua Reynolds, Andy Warhol and Ida Kar.Each image is accompanied by an extended caption withkey information on the sitter and the artist.
(Hardback)
By: Ekow Eshun
ISBN: 9781855145481
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2024
UK Publication Date: 15th February 2024
Publisher: National Portrait Gallery Publications
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"... introduces readers to the field of Black figuration by highlighting key works from the National Portrait Gallery exhibition The Time is Always Now: Artists Reframe the Black Figure."--Provided by publisher.
(Paperback)
By: Frances Borzello
ISBN: 9780500294024
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2018
UK Publication Date: 11th January 2018
Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd
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Splendid a tour de force Its lucid prose, evocative illustrations and handsome production make it a joy to read and savour Times Higher Education
(Hardback)
By: Rab MacGibbon
ISBN: 9781855145344
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2024
UK Publication Date: 4th July 2024
Publisher: National Portrait Gallery Publications
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(Paperback)
By: Frances Spalding
ISBN: 9781855144811
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2014
Publisher: National Portrait Gallery Publications
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This revealing, highly illustrated biography of Virginia Woolf (18821941) by a leading authority on the Bloomsbury Group accompanies a major exhibition of portraits of the world-renowned British novelist, essayist, biographer and critic and her circle at the National Portrait Gallery, London.
(Hardback)
By: Sophie Gerhard
ISBN: 9781760762742
Publication Date: Feb 2022
Publisher: Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd
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(Hardback)
By: Flavia Frigeri
ISBN: 9781855145689
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2023
UK Publication Date: 5th October 2023
Publisher: National Portrait Gallery Publications
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(Paperback)
By: M Simon
ISBN: 9780823016716
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2011
UK Publication Date: 28th May 2003
Publisher: Watson-Guptill Publications
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All artists are tired of persuading their nearest and dearest to look sad...look glad...look mad...madder...no, even madder...okay, hold it. For those artists (and their long-suffering friends), here is the best book ever.
(Paperback)
By: National Portrait Gallery
ISBN: 9781588346940
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2021
Publisher: Smithsonian Books
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"A gorgeous publication that reveals the historical importance of first ladies through portraiture"--
(Hardback)
By: Kristi Nelson
ISBN: 9781098374365
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2021
Publisher: BookBaby
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A 2nd edition of Masked Heroes which includes artistic tributes of portraits to the frontline workers of the COVID-19 pandemic and their shared stories.
(Hardback)
By: Kristi Nelson
ISBN: 9781098321567
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2020
Publisher: BookBaby
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An artistic tribute of portraits to the frontline workers of the COVID-19 pandemic and their stories.
(Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
By: Richard Walker
ISBN: 9781905400225
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2006
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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Numbering some 1,500 individual items and housed at over 80 historic properties across England, Wales and Northern Ireland, the collection of portrait miniatures cared for by the National Trust is considered to be one of the most significant in the world.
(Hardback)
By: Tom Croft
ISBN: 9781448218004
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)
By: David C. Ward
ISBN: 9781588346056
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2017
Publisher: Smithsonian Books
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"Published to accompany an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC"--Colophon.
(Hardback)
By: Marcia Pointon
ISBN: 9781780230412
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2012
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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An investigation of how we view and understand portraiture as a genre, and how portraits function as artworks within social and political networks.
(Hardback)
By: Michael Desmond
ISBN: 9780977576180
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2010
Publisher: National Portrait Gallery
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