Khan was educated at Aitchison College and Cathedral School in Lahore, later attending the Royal Grammar School Worcester in England. He graduated in 1975 from Keble College, Oxford where he studied ...

William George Aston was a British consular official in Japan and Korea. He made a major contribution to the fledgling study of Japan's language and history (Japanology) in the nineteenth century.

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George VI becomes king. The younger brother of Edward VIII was crowned on the 12th May and the coronation was broadcast to Britain and the Empire on the radio. Edward becomes the Duke of Windsor, ...

Ojih Odutola is, in Smith’s words, the ‘central light in a thrilling new generation of black artists.’ In her portrait of Smith she has included a range of subtle details. Shapes and shadows evoke ...

John Fisher (1469-1535), Bishop of Rochester, cardinal and martyr. Sitter associated with 34 portraits. Sir Thomas More (1478-1535), Lord Chancellor; classical scholar; author of 'Utopia'; saint; ...

A selection of portraits from 1485 to 1603, many of which are on display at the Gallery or at Montacute House, our regional partner in Somerset. Portraits below are listed in chronological order.

Sir John Cope was an Army officer for almost forty years. He took part in the war of Spanish succession (1710-13); his distinguished service led to rapid promotion and by 1713, he was a brevet colonel ...

Born in Virginia, at the time a colony of Britain, Washington was the son of a planter. Despite a formal education lasting only a few years, he taught himself planting and land surveying by reading ...

twelve 2 1/4 inch square film negatives, April 1963 ...

Born in Honolulu on the island of O'ahu as Alexander Liholiho, he was the son of Kekuanaoa, High Chief Mataio Kiuanao'a, Governor of Oahu, and Princess Elizabeth Kina'u, a female chief who had served ...

Millichip studied at Leeds College of Art and Brighton College of Art. He had his first solo exhibition at Gallery One in January 1955 while still a young painter living in Brighton, and his work ...