Portrait Drawing at the National Gallery
2 January 2014
A visit to the National Gallery, with notebook and pencil. A day spent learning from the Masters to improve concentration, the discipline of looking and the nerve of working in a public space. With drawing, there’s no hiding place.
(See also ‘Unforgettable’ – notebook drawings of ‘Cityscape’, ‘Landscape’ & the ‘Figure’ in the National Gallery collection)
Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun – Self Portrait in a Straw Hat
Workshop of Rogier van der Weyden – Portrait of a Lady
Titian – Portrait of Gerolamo (?) Barbarigo
Peter Paul Rubens – Portrait of Susanna Lunden(?) (‘Le Chapeau de Paille’)
Rembrandt van Rijn – Portrait of Margaretha de Geer, Wife of Jacob Trip
Rembrandt van Rijn – Portrait of Jacob Trip
Rembrandt van Rijn – Self Portrait at the Age of 34
Rembrandt van Rijn – Self Portrait at the Age of 63
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres – Madame Moitessier
William Hogarth – The Shrimp Girl
Attributed to Albrecht Dürer – The Painter’s Father
Giovanni Bellini – Doge Leonardo Loredan
The National Gallery, Trafalgar Square, London WC2N 5DN
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