National Portrait Gallery Archive
Location
- Advice on accessing these materials
- Web
- Telephone
- +44 (0)20 7321 6617
- Address
- St Martin’s Place, London, WC2H 0HE, England, United Kingdom
- Opening Hours
- Tuesday to Thursday 10 am to 5 pm, by appointment only.
List of Collections(View as Search Results)
- Account Book of Joseph Wright of Derby (1734-1797)
- Adolph Hahn, account ledger
- Albert Way, notebook of research on portraits of Mary Queen of Scots
- Alice Hughes, papers
- Ambrose McEvoy, volumes containing photographs of oil paintings and watercolours
- Angus McBean, draft of autobiography
- Baron Studios, day books
- Bassano, photographic studio, day/sitter books
- Bob Collins, photographer, scrapbooks
- Charles Beale, diary
- Charles Francis Bell, annotated copy of 'Self & Partners (mostly self)' by C. J. Holmes
- Charles Henry Collins Baker, research papers
- Count Victor Gleichen, portrait sculpture photographs
- Dorothy Wilding, day books
- Eden Upton Eddis, album of portraits
- Francis Hodge and Hazel Dunlop, papers
- Francis Owen Salisbury, papers
- Frederik van Kretschmar, research on Vernatti family portratis
- George Frederick Browning, scrapbook
- George Perfect Harding, notes on portraits and paintings
- George Richmond, papers
- George Romney, papers
- Harold Isherwood Kay, research papers
- Harry Furniss, ledger and notebooks
- Hay Wrightson, sitter books
- Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford, copy of poem 'The Beauties: an Epistle to Mr Eckardt the Painter'
- Howard Coster, autograph albums and sitter books
- James Northcote, diary
- John and Charles Watkins, photographers, album of correspondence including The Hood Monument
- John C Binmer, volumes relating to French and foreign engraved portraits
- John Comerford, sitter book
- John Nichols and John Bowyer Nichols, papers
- John Partridge, papers
- John Ruskin, album of press cuttings
- John Russell, photograph album of paintings
- John Singer Sargent, photograph album of paintings
- John Steegman research papers on Sir Francis Grant
- Kenneth Garlick, research papers on Sir Thomas Lawrence
- Kent Portrait Survey Records
- Launcelot Surry research on portraits of Edward VI
- Madame Yevonde, day books
- Margaret Sarah Carpenter, transcript of list of paintings 1812-1866
- NPG - Accession Registers
- NPG - Acknowledgement books for donations of items to the collections
- NPG - Admissions policy and procedure records
- NPG - Annual Reports and Associated Material
- NPG - Appropriation Accounts
- NPG - Building Records
- NPG - Copyist records
- NPG - Corporate & Business Plans
- NPG - Correspondence received by the Gallery, 1910-1970
- NPG - Correspondence relating to acquisitions of items for the collections
- NPG - Description of Portraits submitted for Inspection
- NPG - Education Records
- NPG - Exhibition Case Files
- NPG - Financial Accounts
- NPG - Gallery Sound Guides
- NPG - Improving Visitor Access
- NPG - Information and Event Guides (formerly Quarterly leaflets)
- NPG - Items loaned to the Gallery to accompany permanent displays, 1968-1999
- NPG - Laurence Gifford Holland, NPG Clerk, papers
- NPG - Minutes and Papers of Audit and Compliance Committee Meetings
- NPG - Minutes and Papers of Investment Committee Meetings
- NPG - Minutes and Papers of Interpretation Group Meetings
- NPG - Minutes and Papers of Management Team Meetings
- NPG - Minutes and Papers of Planning Team Meetings (Re-named Director's Meeting from Sept 2016)
- NPG - Minutes and Papers of the Board of Trustees Meetings
- NPG - Minutes and Papers of the Development Council Meetings, formerly called Development Board
- NPG - Minutes of Access Audit Working Group Meetings
- NPG - Minutes of Archive and Library Departmental Meetings
- NPG - Minutes of Board of Patrons Meetings
- NPG - Minutes of Bookshop Gallery Meetings
- NPG - Minutes of Corporate Advisory Group Meetings
- NPG - Minutes of Curatorial and Collections Meetings
- NPG - Minutes of Curatorial Meetings
- NPG - Minutes of Design Presentation Meetings
- NPG - Minutes of Exhibition Committee Meetings
- NPG - Minutes of Exhibition Project Management Meetings
- NPG - Minutes of Health and Safety Committee Meetings
- NPG - Minutes of Individual Giving Advisory Group Meetings
- NPG - Minutes of National Portrait Gallery Company Ltd. Board of Directors Meetings
- NPG - Minutes of Publishing Board Meetings
- NPG - Minutes of the 2009 Gala Committee Meetings
- NPG - Minutes of the Displays Committee Meetings
- NPG - Minutes of the Equality Steering Group Meetings, previously called the Access Steering Group
- NPG - Minutes of the Equality & Diversity Steering Group
- NPG - Minutes of the Evaluation Group Meetings
- NPG - Minutes of the Learning Department Meetings
- NPG - Minutes of the Portrait Fund Committee Meetings
- NPG - Minutes of Whitley Council Meetings
- NPG - National Photographic Record
- NPG - National Portrait Gallery Archive and Library Visitor Books
- NPG - National Portrait Gallery Warding and security staff records
- NPG - National Portrait Survey Returns
- NPG - Notes on Artists
- NPG - Notes on Sitters
- NPG - NPG newsletter for Gallery supporters
- NPG - NPG Photographs
- NPG - NPG Posters
- NPG - Papers of Charles Kingsley Adams
- NPG - Papers of James Donald Milner
- NPG - Papers of John Hayes
- NPG - Papers of Sir Charles Holmes
- NPG - Papers of Sir David Piper
- NPG - Papers of Sir George Scharf
- NPG - Papers of Sir Henry Mendelssohn Hake
- NPG - Papers of Sir Lionel Cust
- NPG - Papers of Sir Roy Strong
- NPG - Papers of William Smith (1808-1876)
- NPG - Personnel records
- NPG - Portrait Award Exhibition records
- NPG - Postcard Biographies case files
- NPG - Press Packs
- NPG - Press releases
- NPG - Press-Cuttings
- NPG - Receipts for portraits returned to their owners, 1856-1926
- NPG - Register of Long Term Loans
- NPG - Registered Packets
- NPG - Registered Packets: portraits on long-term loan to the Gallery
- NPG - Registered Packets: Primary Collection Photographs
- NPG - Short Term Loans Out Files
- NPG - Signed Minutes of the Board of Trustees Meetings
- NPG - Small Displays Case Files
- NPG - Staff Newsletters
- NPG - Turnstile Account Books
- NPG - Visitor Information Desk Records
- NPG - Visitor Statistics
- NPG - Visitor Survey Reports
- NPG - Visitors' Books
- Pamela Johnson, research papers on Neville Northey Burnard
- Papers associated with Doyne Courtenay Bell F.S.A
- Papers associated with Lucian Freud and his family
- Papers of Henry William Beechey (1788/9-1862)
- Papers of Sir William Beechey (1753-1839)
- Papers of Sydney Chancellor
- Philip de László, papers
- Records Associated with George Frederic Watts
- Richard James Lane, papers
- Richard Jeffree, art research papers
- Robert Home, register of sitters
- Robert Lemon, letter and notes
- Robert Tull, account book
- Ronald Brymer Beckett, research notes on portraits by Sir Peter Lely
- Rupert Potter, photographs of Sir John Everett Millais' Studio
- Samuel De Wilde, typescript of diary 1810-1811
- Samuel Lysons, inventory of paintings, drawings and furniture etc
- Sigfrid Henry Steinberg, papers on a Bibliography of the History of British Portraiture
- Sir Francis Grant, list of works
- Sir Gerald Kelly photograph collection
- Sir Thomas Lawrence, papers
- Thomas Phillips, transcript of catalogue of his works 1791-1843
- Tonson family papers
- William Edwards Miller, sitter book
- William Fleming, papers
- William Roberts, research papers relating to 18th and 19th century artists
- William Seguier, album of letters
- William Stevenson Fitch, notebooks