Disability is no respecter of person. Those represented on the walls of the National Portrait Gallery and in its collections are among the most celebrated members of British society but among them are many with disabilities. Some are celebrated in literature: Richard III was famously depicted by Shakespeare as ‘Crookback’, while the poet Byron who […]
A small online exhibition of PRB portrait drawings in the collection of the Lady Lever Art Gallery in Liverpool.
An exemplary online resource for new research into miniature production, key proponents, royal iconography, and techniques.
This online exhibition from the British Postal Museum & Archive explores the evolution of Arnold Machin’s classic profile portrait of the Queen. Online exhibition homepage.
New York Public Library’s Digital Gallery provides free and open access to over 800,000 images digitized from the The New York Public Library’s vast collections, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints, photographs and more.
The Portraits of Actors, 1720-1920 database includes almost 3,500 pictures of actors – studio portraits and actors posing in costume for a particular role or performing a scene from a play. Dramatists, theatrical managers, singers and musicians are also included, but the majority are British and American actors who worked between about 1770 and 1893. […]
