Our Collection

Celebration of Portraiture

Our Collection

A watercolour image of women with her hair tied back

Mary Watts, Self Portrait, 1882

Sketch of a bearded man

From the archive: George Frederic Watts's sketchbooks

Pen drawings of a man in a plumed helmet

George Frederic Watts, Boccaccio, 1844-47

Statue of Alfred Tennyson and his dog

Monument to Lord Tennyson

A red pencil sketch of a woman looking up

Drawings and watercolours

Oil painting of a figure surrounded by flame turned away

Object in Focus: Satan

Oil painting featuring Ophelia in side profile closing her eyes surrounded by trees

Object in Focus: Ophelia

Sculpture of a women turning her head to one side

Object in Focus: Clytie

Carved severed head of Medusa from above

Object in Focus: Medusa

Painting of a young woman in a white blouse looking to the left

Object in Focus: Miss May Prinsep