Published for the exhibition held at the National Portrait Gallery, this catalogue demonstrates that this little-known artist was not only one of the most gifted portrait painters in a long British tradition, but also an original and sensitive artist, whose work has a recognizably individual technique and strength of style.

Glyn Philpot, 1884-1937 : Edwardian Aesthete to Thirties Modernist

Arts & Photography

Robin Gibson

Painting

National Portrait Gallery Publications

Shows selected paintings from the National Portrait Galley, including portraits of politicians, artists, actors, actresses, kings, queens, and the British nobility

The National Portrait Gallery Collection (London)

Susan Foister

History & Criticism

The Raj: India and the British 1600-1947

Published for the exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery (Winter 1990-1) "The Raj: India and the British, 1600-1947", this catalogue examines the relationship between British and Indian society over the whole period of the British presence in India, from the founding of the East India Company in 1660 to the withdrawal of the British and Partition in 1947. It depicts the wealth, productivity and complex civilization of the India of the great Mughals and shows how Europeans, including the English, were drawn to its shores, seeking the privilege of trading in its fine muslins, printed cottons and spices. The English East India Company had long insisted on sovereignty within its commercial bases on Indian soil, and a significant body of opinion argued for more secure territorial holdings in the subcontinent. The catalogue attempts to illustrate and analyse the history of India and the British for over 300 years with more than 500 illustrations of the weapons, fabrics, coinage, books, drawings, paintings, prints, sculpture, manuscripts, miniatures, jewellery and maps featured in the exhibition. The book is an illustrated history of India and a contribution both to Indian history and to an understanding of the European experience of colonialism.

Bayly, C.A.

The Raj: India and the British, 1600-1947

History

National Portrait Gallery (Great Britain)

Asia

Wilde Notebook

Unknown, Author

This illustrated biography of the Sitwell family accompanies a major 1994 exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery.

The Sitwells and the Arts of the 1920s and 1930s

Sarah H. Bradford

Biographies & Memoirs

Millais Portraits

Funnell, Peter et al

Millais: portraits

Warner, Malcolm

Ormond, Leonée

Flint, Kate

Funnell, Peter

Matthew, H. C. G.

This study of the role of costume in portraiture, illustrated in colour throughout, takes 100 examples from the National Portrait Gallery's collections, ranging from the magnificence of the Tudor monarchs to the often understated yet equally telling costume of the 1990s, and through them explores the purpose and original context of the dress in which each sitter chose to be recorded. Each portrait is complemented by related works of art and other contemporary images, together with specially commissioned photographs of original surviving examples of costume. The text encourages the viewer and reader alike to a new understanding and appreciation of one of the most attractive aspects of the hidden history of some of the best-known images of the last 500 years.

The Gallery of Fashion

Aileen Ribeiro

Decorative Arts & Design

Mario Testino: Portraits [Hardcover]

Mario Testino

Individual Artists

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