Renowned as a fashion illustrator, Oscar-winning costume designer, social caricaturist and writer, Cecil Beaton – ‘The King of Vogue’ – was an extraordinary force in the 20th-century British and ...

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Explore over 220,000 works, 150,000 of which are illustrated from the 16th century to the present day in a wide variety of different mediums. A Collection of 12,700 portraits, of which about 4,000 are ...

Schools hub is the Gallery's free online learning resource hub designed to support Art & Design and History through portraiture. Advance booking is essential for all groups of 10+ to visit the Gallery ...

Mike McCartney, brother of Paul McCartney and formerly a member of skiffle group the Scaffold, photographed life in working-class Liverpool during the 'Merseybeat' era and the rise of Beatlemania.

Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Earl Granville, was widely considered one of the most handsome men of his time. He is best remembered for the fifteen-year affair he had with Henrietta Frances (Harriet) ...

William Hazeldine trained initially as a millwright, but soon changed to become an iron-founder. He first came to prominence in 1796-7 when he cast the world's first iron-framed building, Ditherington ...

Nothing is known of his early life, training or parentage, but in 1537 William Scrots was appointed painter to Mary of Hungary, Regent of the Netherlands. In 1545, he went to England to take up a ...

Eleanor of Castile was the first queen consort of King Edward I. She was the daughter of King Ferdinand III of Castile and his wife, Joan of Ponthieu. In 1254 Eleanor was married to Lord Edward, son ...

Founder of British Inland Navigation; the Worsley canal was built for him by James Brindley to transport coal to Manchester from his mines at Worsley. The unusual design carried the canal by aqueduct ...

Rachel Pearsall Conn ('Ray') Strachey (née Costelloe) (1887-1940), Feminist activist, artist and writer. Artist or producer associated with 99 portraits, Sitter associated with 64 portraits.

John Gay was a poet and dramatist, best remembered for his hugely successful dramatic satire The Beggar's Opera (1727). Along with his friend Alexander Pope (1688-1744), Gay was a member of the ...