Portraits Collection (page 19)

Gerhard Douw or Gerrit Dou, Dutch artist of the Golden Age, 1613 - 1675. From a picture in the Stafford collection. Lithograph after a drawing by HVH from Portraits of the most celebrated painters of

Rembrandt, Dutch painter
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, Dutch painter, 1606-1669. From a picture by himself, formerly in the possession of the Duke of Montagu

Sir Anthony Van Dyck, Flemish Baroque artist, 1599-1641. Lithograph after a drawing by HVH from Portraits of the most celebrated painters of all the schools, Ackermann, London, 1827

Hans Holbein the younger, German Renaissance artist 1497-1543. From a self portrait. Lithograph after a drawing by HVH from Portraits of the most celebrated painters of all the schools, Ackermann

Two aboriginal men, named Garicha and Boyguda, of Cape York, Australia, who were brought to Britain in 1853 after accidentally remaining on board Captain Stricklands ship

Page from The Illustrated London News reporting on the indigenous people of Australia Felix, Port Phillip, in New South Wales

Page from a 1931 issue of Play Pictorial with an advertisement showing Noel Coward, an alumni of the Italia Conti School, when he appeared in the production of When the Rainbow Ends 21 years earlier

Mrs. Frederick Benson, wife of the famous banker and racing driver, photographed by Speaight with her baby daughter and featured in The Tatler. Date: 1921

Catherine Kitty Brigid Kiernan (1893-1945), pictured at home after the announcement of her engagement to Irish revolutionary leader and Chairman of the Provisional Government, Michael Collins

Nannie Langhorne Shaw pictured in The Sketch at the time of her engagement to Waldorf Astor. Her sister Irene was married to the artist Charles Dana Gibson

The prolific English author Edmee Elizabeth Monica Dashwood (1890-1943), commonly known as E. M. Delafield, and Lorna Lewis, British writer ()

Miss Eileen Idare, in private life Mrs. George Mitchell, the woman behind the fashion label Idare et Cie, couturier and court dressmaker

Personalities at the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve banquet caricatured by Fred May. Pictured are C. I. H. Concannon, Charles Hipwood, Lord Chelmsford, Air Vice Marshal Sir Philip Garrie

Front cover of The Tatler featuring a photograph of Lady Weymouth (formerly Daphne Vivian) with her son, Alexander George Thynne who would become the 7th Marquess of Bath

Page from The Tatler featuring sisters Myra and Georgina Wernher, daughters of Lady Zia and Sir Harold Wernher and grand-daughters of Grand Duke Michael of Russia

Toshusai Sharaku image. He was a Japanese ukiyo-e print designer, known for his portraits of kabuki actors. Neither his true name nor the dates of his birth or death are known

Versatile - Averil Mackenzie-Grieve (1903-1975) - Writer, Wood-engraver, Linguist, Traveller, Dress-designer, Editor and Stamp Collector! 1940

Sir Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of Great Britain pictured in familiar garb but without cigar, against a London skyline. Date: 1953

Princess Margaret
Portrait of Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon (1930-2002), pictured in a green ensemble in 1953 - Coronation year. Date: 1953

Bust of (Sir) Edward Moss
Marble bust of Mr. H. E. Moss of the London Hippodrome by Scottish sculptor William Birnie Rhind (mis-spelled here as Birone Rhind)

Miss Billie Lawford, daughter of Lady Gertrude Lawford, pictured in The Bystander at the time of her engagement to Kenneth Baird. Date: 1924

Middlesex Golf Club Secretaries by H. H. Harris
Secretaries of various golf clubs in the Middlesex area in 1932, caricatured by H. H. Harris. Those featured are Major E. A. Proute of Northwick, Captain W

Mrs. Richard Herbert by Madame Yevonde
Mrs. Richard Herbert, formerly Miss Marjorie du Pre photographed by Madame Yevonde contemplating a theatrical mask. Date: 1932

Engagement of the Beaton sisters
An impression by society sketch portraitist Pat Charles of the two recently engaged sisters of Cecil Beaton with their fiancÚ│« Nancy Beaton is seen with Sir Hugh Smiley

Lady Sibell Lygon by Madame Yevonde
Lady Sibell Lygon (1907 - 2005), English socialite, part of the Bright Young Things. Daughter of the 7th Earl Beauchamp, she was the eldest of the four Lygon sisters

Familiar Faces, Brilliant Brunettes by Pat Charles
A sextet of well-known society women who happen to have brunette hair. Top left, model Hilary Charles, sister of the artist Pat Charles, top right Lady Pamela Smith, daughter of Lord Birkinhead

Margaret Watts by Gluck
Portrait of Margaret Watts, daughter of the illustrator Arthur Watts, by Gluck, which was exhibited in a Gluck show at the Fine Art Galleries. Date: 1932

Nina Vanna in a white evening gown by Madame Yevonde
Nina Vanna (Nina Yasikova Kind Hakim Provatoroff, 1899-1953) by Madame Yevonde. She was a Russian-born British film and theatre actress

Lady Broughton by Madame Yevonde
Lady Broughton (1894 - 1968), first wife of Sir Jock Delves Broughton, photographed by Madame Yevonde in 1932. Previously Miss Vera Griffith-Boscawen

Lady Diana Somerset by Madame Yevonde
Lady Diana Maud Nina Somerset (12 September 1898 6 May 1935), married 19 September 1925 Captain Lindsey Shedden (18811971)

Ian MacPherson, Secretary for Ireland
(James) Ian Stewart Macpherson, 1st Baron Strathcarron, (1880 - 1937), British lawyer and Liberal politician, pictured at the time he was appointed Secretary of State for Ireland in the 1919

Lord Berners
Gerald Hugh Tyrwhitt-Wilson, 14th Baron Berners (1883 - 1950), also known as Gerald Tyrwhitt, British composer, novelist, painter and aesthete. Usually referred to as Lord Berners Date: 1926

George Bernard Shaw kaleidoscoped
Front cover of The Sketch featuring an unusual portrait of playwright George Bernard Show shown in kaleidoscope effect. Date: 1926

Bystander cover - Elsie Mackay (Poppy Wyndham)
Front cover of The Bystander magazine featuring a portrait of Elsie Mackay (1893-1928), aristocratic daughter of Lord and Lady Inchcape, actress, interior decorator and aviator

The actress June by Madame Yevonde
The actress known simply as June at the time she was appearing in the new musical comedy, Toni in Birmingham before moving to the Shaftesbury Theatre in London. Date: 1924

Jack Buchanan smoking
Jack Buchanan (1890 - 1957), Scottish theatre and film actor, singer, dancer, producer and director. Pictured smoking in a page from The Sketch that reported on the fact that in order to avoid hefty

Miss Adela Maddison, composer of new opera
Page from The Sketch featuring a portrait of Adela Maddison, Irish composer of a new opera, The Talisman, which was performed at Leipzig on 19 November 1910. Date: 1910

Sisters of the King of Siam, daughters of the late King Chulalongkorn, pictured in their unusual attire according to The Tatler. Date: 1911

1930s woman in black with yellow background, Albert Bailey
Glamorous woman dress in black against a yellow background. Illustration by Albert Bailey. Date: c.1935

Mascagni at the London Hippodrome
Pietro Mascagni, Italian composer and conductor, featured in The Bystander at the time he was conducting a special orchestra at the London Hippodrome, where performances of his world-famous opera

Frank Parker, stage director at London Hippodrome
Frank Parker, , stage director at the London HIppodrome where he was the brains behind the theatres incredible water spectacles, plunging elephants, diving cyclists, snowstorms

Reform and Anti-Reform
Reform Bill - Reform and Anti-Reform - depiction of a naval battle between two ships, with the Reform ship winning. " The Portraits of the King, Lords Brougham, Russell, Grey

Miss Essex and Valerie French, Madame Yevonde
Essex and Valerie French, daughters of Major the Hon. and Mrs Gerald French, younger son of Sir John French, Earl of Ypres. 1926

Anne and Christine Bevan by Madame Yevonde
Anne and Christine Bevan, daughters of Mr Edwyn Bevan and the former Mary Waldegrave, photographed by Madame Yevonde at the time Anne was to be married to Charles Craven Saunderson. Date: 1926

Sketch cover, Queen Ena of Spain
Front cover of The Sketch featuring a portrait of Queen Victoria Eugenia (Ena) of Spain, granddaughter of Queen Victoria and wife of King Alfonso XIII

George Black, theatre producer
George Black (20 April 1890 4 March 1945), British theatrical impresario who controlled many entertainment venues during the 1930s/40s and was a pioneer of the motion-picture business. Date: 1937

Marquis of Anglesey in costume
Henry Paget, the 5th Marquess of Anglesey, aristocrat renowned for his eccentric love of theatre, pictured in a particularly flamboyant costume for a part in a production at his own theatre

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