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Heinz Archive & Library Public access and enquiries Resources and collections
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Public access and enquiries Introduction Appointments Please telephone in advance on
0207 321 6617 (BT's Type Talk: 18001) to make an appointment.
Visitors who have not previously used the Public Study Room should
bring with them some form of identification, such as a passport
or driver's licence. Consultations Where to find us Visitors with appointments, or those attending consultation sessions on Wednesday afternoons, should announce themselves at the Reception Desk. The nearest Underground stations are Leicester Square and Charing Cross, the nearest mainline station is Charing Cross, and the nearest bus stops are at Trafalgar Square. Access First time visitors will be asked to show some form of identification, such as a passport or driver's licence, and fill in a Visitor Agreement Form. Self-service photocopying facilities
are provided in the Public Study Room. Visitors must comply with
UK and European Copyright Legislation and may only make copies
for private study or non-commerical research purposes. Photographic
services can be arranged through the Picture Library. The Public Study Room is fitted with two induction loops, including one portable facility. A large print version of our visitor's leaflet is available on request and magnifying sheets and torches are provided in the Public Study Room. If you have any special requirements for your visit please notify Archive staff in advance. |
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Archive enquiry service All other enquiries should be made in writing and sent by letter, fax or e-mail. They should be addressed to the Head of Archive and Library. The number for faxed enquiries is 020 7306 0056 and the address for e-mailed enquiries is archiveenquiry@npg.org.uk. Please note that we may retain correspondence for further reference in the Gallery's Records. Written enquiries are distributed to archive staff once a week and may therefore take fifteen working days to answer. For this reason please do not expect an immediate reply to faxes and e-mails. Please explain your query clearly and give your full name and postal address in case we need to contact you by post. If you are trying to identify a sitter or artist associated with a portrait in your possession please send us a good quality colour photograph. We may wish to retain this image for our records. Do not fax or e-mail images or send photocopies or laser prints as these do not reproduce sufficiently clearly for research purposes. Please note we can only answer
enquiries relating to British portraiture. We cannot give valuations,
we do not answer competition, crossword puzzle or quiz questions,
and, unfortunately, we are not able to enter into ongoing correspondence
with enquirers. We can check of our 'sitter boxes' and main index
for up to five names or we can undertake very brief checks for
up to ten names if you are looking for portraits of particular
individuals but we cannot do this on a repeat basis. If you are
researching more than ten names you are advised to make an appointment
to visit the study room or arrange for a freelance researcher
to do this on your behalf. Enquirers who live in or near to London
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Resources and collections Visual resources and index
of portraits Prints and drawings The remainder of the collection comprises discrete named groups, including extra-illustrated volumes, bound collections of prints, albums of drawings, sketchbooks, silhouettes, paintings, brass rubbings, tracings, miniatures and medallions. Many of the items in these collections have been indexed and a hand-list of all the named collections in the Archive, Library and Photographs collections can be consulted in the Public Study Room. For more information about the main groups of portraits contained in the reference collection, go to www.npg.org.uk/live/arccoll.asp With support of the DCMS Challenge Fund and Paul Mellon Centre between April 2002 and March 2004 we have embarked upon a major digitisation project to research, photograph and catalogue these collections so that they can be searched on our website. 10 collections of mainly 17th and 18th century prints were digitised with the aid of funding between 2002 and 2004. For further information about the DCMS funded project, go to www.npg.org.uk/live/dcmsprint.asp. For information about the research project supported by the Paul Mellon Centre, go to www.npg.org.uk/mellon.asp. All of the prints digitised as part of these projects can also be searched on our website at www.npg.org.uk/search The Gallery has an ongoing commitment
to digitising its reference collections and, subject to the availability
of additional funding, it intends to undertake further projects
to research, catalogue and digitise discrete areas of the collection
in order to improve public access to this important resource. Gallery records Library |
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Photographs
collection The Photographs collection holds approximately 240,000 original prints and negatives of historical and contemporary portraits, including large collections of the work of Camille Silvy, Ida Kar, Madame Yevonde, Howard Coster, the Bassano studio and Cecil Beaton. A percentage have been catalogued on to the main collections database of the National Portrait Gallery which can be searched on our website at www.npg.org.uk/search. Those wishing to consult portrait photographs should contact the Curator of Photographs in writing. For more information about the scope of the Photographs Collection go to www.npg.org.uk/live/photcoll.asp |
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Collection Those wishing to see paintings and other portraits in the Primary Collection not on display, or to consult the records of the collection, should contact the Collections Manager in writing. For more information about the Primary Collection go to www.npg.org.uk/live/primcoll.asp |
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 Queen Elizabeth I by Unknown artist oil on panel, circa 1600 (circa 1559?) |
Useful sources of information Collections databases
John Ingamells, Mid-Georgian Portraits 1760-1790, NPG, 2004 John Kerslake, Early Georgian Portraits, HMSO, 2 vols, 1977 Richard Ormond, Early Victorian Portraits, HMSO, 2 vols, 1973 David Piper, Seventeenth Century Portraits in the National Portrait Gallery, Cambridge University Press, 1963 Roy Strong, Tudor and Jacobean Portraits, HMSO, 2 vols, 1969 Richard Walker, Regency Portraits, National Portrait Gallery, 2 vols, 1985 |
 Jessie Matthews by Dorothy Wilding bromide print, circa 1928  William Cowper by George Romney pastel, 1792 |
Other collection catalogues
Robin Gibson and Pam Roberts (including a catalogue by Ian Thomas), Madame Yevonde. Colour, Fantasy and Myth, National Portrait Gallery, 1990 Richard Ormond, Original Vanity Fair Cartoons in the National Portrait Gallery, National Portrait Gallery, 1976 Terence Pepper, Howard Coster's Celebrity Portraits. 101 Photographs of Personalities in Literature and the Arts, National Portrait Gallery, London, in association with Dover Publications, Inc., New York, 1985 Terence Pepper, Dorothy Wilding. The Pursuit of Perfection, National Portrait Gallery, 1991 Malcolm Rogers, Camera Portraits. Photographs from the National Portrait Gallery 1839-1989, National Portrait Gallery, 1989 Malcolm Rogers, Master Drawings from the National Portrait Gallery, National Portrait Gallery, London, in association with Art Services International, Alexandria, Virginia, 1993 Richard Walker, 'Henry Bone Pencil Drawings in the National Portrait Gallery', Walpole Society, vol. 61, 1999, pp. 305-67 Robert Woof and Stephen Hebron, Romantic Icons. The National Portrait Gallery at Dove Cottage, Grasmere, The Wordsworth Trust, 1999
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 Queen Elizabeth I by Nicholas Hilliard watercolour on vellum, oval, 1572 |
Books and articles on the
collections Robin Gibson, The Face in the Corner. Animals in Portraits from the Collections of the National Portrait Gallery, National Portrait Gallery, 1998 Eilean Hooper-Greenhill, 'The Collections of the First Decade of the National Portrait Gallery, London', Museums and the Interpretation of Visual Culture, Routledge, 2000, pp. 23-48 Gertrude Prescott Nuding, 'Portraits for the Nation', History Today vol. 39 (1989), pp. 30-36 Aileen Ribeiro, The Gallery of Fashion, National Portrait Gallery, 2000 Charles Saumarez Smith, The National Portrait Gallery, National Portrait Gallery, 1997 Jacob Simon, 'Collecting the Twentieth Century at the National Portrait Gallery', Christies Bulletin for Professional Advisers, 6/2 (Winter 2001), pp. 20-27 Richard Walker, Miniatures.
300 Years of the English Miniature Illustrated from the Collections
of the National Portrait Gallery, National Portrait Gallery,
1998 CD-ROMs |
 William Shakespeare attributed to John Taylor oil on canvas, feigned oval, circa 1610 |
General background and history
of the National Portrait Gallery 'The New National Portrait Gallery and Some of its Treasures', The Graphic, (4 April 1896), pp.407-410 Paul Barlow, 'The Imagined Hero as Incarnate Sign: Thomas Carlyle and the Mythology of the 'National Portrait' in Victorian Britain', Art History, vol. 17, no. 4 (December 1994), pp.517-545 John Cooper, National Portrait Gallery: A Visitor's Guide, National Portrait Gallery, 2000 Sir Joshua Fitch, The National Portrait Gallery (Reprinted from the Educational Record, June 1907), Eyre and Spottiswoode, [1908] Peter Fleetwood-Hesketh, 'Future of the National Portrait Gallery', Country Life, (20 August 1970), pp. 446-448 Sir Henry Hake, 'Foreword', NPG Catalogue 1856-1947, National Portrait Gallery, 1949, pp.ix-xii John Hayes, The National Portrait Gallery in Colour, edited by Richard Ormond, Studio Vista, 1979, pp.3-5 Graham Hulme, Brian Buchanan and Kenneth Powell, The National Portrait Gallery: An Architectural History, National Portrait Gallery, 2000 Cosmo Monkhouse, 'The National Portrait Gallery', Scribner's Magazine, (September 1896), pp.317-333 Gertrude Prescott Nuding, 'Portraits for the Nation', History Today, vol. 39 (June 1989), pp.30-36 |
 Sir Kenneth Macmillan by Yolanda Sonnabend oil on canvas, 1988 |
Lara Perry, 'The National Portrait Gallery and its Constituencies, 1858-96', Governing Cultures: Art Institutions in Victorian London, edited by Paul Barlow and Colin Trodd, pp.145-156 Marcia Pointon, 'Epilogue. Saved from the Housekeepers Room: The Foundation of the National Portrait Gallery, London', Hanging the Head, Yale 1993, pp.227-245 Charles Saumarez Smith, The National Portrait Gallery, National Portrait Gallery, 1997 Jacob Simon, 'Collecting the Twentieth Century at the National Portrait Gallery', Christies Bulletin for Professional Advisers, 6/2 (Winter 2001), pp.20-27 Sir Roy Strong, 'Faces Past and Faces Present', Art and Artists, vol. 1 (1970), pp.26-29 Brandon Taylor, 'Art for the Nation, Exhibitions and the London Public 1747-2001', The Barber Institute's Critical Perspectives in Art History Series, Manchester University Press, pp.92-99 |
 Possibly Nell Gwyn studio of Sir Peter Lely oil on canvas, circa 1675 |
British portraits held in
other collections Richard Ormond and Malcolm Rogers (editors), Dictionary of British Portraiture, 4 vols, Batsford, 1979-81
David Piper, The English Face, National Portrait Gallery, 1992 Marcia Pointon, Hanging the Head: Portraiture and Social Formation in Eighteenth Century England, Yale 1993 Robin Simon, The Portrait in Britain and America, Phaidon, 1987 Sir Roy Strong, The English Icon: Elizabethan and Jacobean Portraiture, (Studies in British Art), Paul Mellon Foundation for British Art, 1969 |
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British portrait painters
and sculptors Checklist of British Artists in the Witt Library, Witt Library, Courtauld Institute of Art, 1991 Daphne Foskett, Miniatures: Dictionary and Guide, Antique Collectors' Club, 1987 Daphne Foskett, A Dictionary of British Miniature Painters, 2 vols., Faber & Faber Ltd, 1972 Julian Halsby and Paul Harris, The Dictionary of Scottish Painters 1600 to the Present, 2nd edition, Cannongate, 1998 J. Johnson and A. Greutzner, The Dictionary of British Artists 1880-1940, Antique Collectors' Club, 1976 Peter J.M.McEwan, Dictionary of Scottish Art and Architecture, Antique Collectors' Club, 1994 James Mackay, The Dictionary of Sculptors in Bronze, Antique Collectors' Club, 1977 Theo Snoddy, Dictionary of Irish Artists 20th Century, Wolfhound Press, 1996 Frances Spalding, 20th Century Painters and Sculptors (Dictionary of British Art vol. VI), Antique Collectors' Club, 1990 Brian Stewart and Mervyn Cutten, The Dictionary of British Portrait Painters in Britain up to 1920, Antique Collectors' Club, 1997 Ellis Waterhouse, The Dictionary of 16th and 17th Century British Painters, Antique Collectors' Club, 1988 Ellis Waterhouse, The Dictionary of British 18th Century Painters in Oils and Crayons, Antique Collectors' Club, 1981 Christopher Wood, Victorian Painters (Dictionary of British Art vol. IV), 2 vols., Antique Collectors' Club, 1995 |
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Valuations for works of art Bonhams Christie's Sotheby's For information about art dealers and auction houses in your area you should contact your local reference library. For advice on how to care for, restore and conserve works of art you may contact the institutions below. The Institute of Conservation keeps a register of qualified conservators across the UK. This service is provided at a fee. Institute of Conservation The International Institute of Conservation (www.iiconservation.org) Association of British Picture Restorers (www.abpr.co.uk) MLA: Museums Libraries and Archives (www.mla.gov.uk/website/links/Conservation) Family names and genealogical
enquiries For general information about genealogical research you should contact the institutions below. Family History Centre The National Archives Society of Genealogists Works of art other than portraits National Art Library National Gallery National Galleries of Scotland The Royal Collection Tate Victoria and Albert Museum
General art reference libraries
in London Westminster Central Art Reference Library, 35 St Martin's Street, London WC2H 7HP (www.westminster.gov.uk/libraries/westref/) nearest tube stations: Leicester Square and Piccadilly National Art Library, Victoria and Albert Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 2RL (www.vam.ac.uk/nal) nearest tube station: South Kensington tube station. |
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