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Monday, April 7, 2025

London Retrospective 2: National Portrait Gallery and St. Martin-in-the-Fields

London diary 2: Saturday 8 March 

An afternoon in the National Portrait Gallery and an evening of candlelit Gershwin, Price, Copland and Shostakovich at St. Martin-in-the-Fields, accompanied in the latter by my London-based friend, Bev Murray.

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Queen Mary, 1544, attributed to ‘Master John’

Queen Elizabeth 1, 1575, unknown artist

Queen Elizabeth 1, about 1600, unknown artist

Katherine Parr, about 1545, unknown artist

5 Jane Seymour, mid-16th century, Studio of Hans Holbein the Younger

Anne Boleyn, about 1500-36, unknown artist

7-8 The Phoenix Portrait, Queen Elizabeth 1, about 1575, Nicholas Hilliard

Queen Elizabeth 1, 1572, Nicholas Hilliard

10 Sir Walter Raleigh, about 1585, Nicholas Hilliard

11  Self-portrait with model Ella Louise Naper, 1913, Dame Laura Knight

12 Virginia Woolf, 1912, Vanessa Bell

13 Vanessa Bell, about 1913, Duncan Grant

14 Gwen John, about 1900, Self-portrait

15 Germaine Greer, 1995, Paula Rego

16 Gluck, Self-portrait, 1942

17 Portrait, Eyes Lowered, 2019, Celia Paul

18-20  St. Martin-in-the Fields with Bev Murray