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| William Shakespeare portrait (c1600-10) (found in 1856) at National Portrait Gallery. London, United Kingdom. | Philosopher Thomas Hobbes portrait (1670) by John Michael Wright at National Portrait Gallery. London, United Kingdom. | Poet John Milton known for Paradise Lost portrait (1629) at National Portrait Gallery. London, United Kingdom. | John Bunyan known for Pilgrim's Progress portrait (1684) by Thomas Sadler at National Portrait Gallery. London, United Kingdom. |
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| Poet John Dryden portrait (1668) by John Michael Wright at National Portrait Gallery. London, United Kingdom. | Diarist Samuel Pepys portrait (1666) by John Hayls at National Portrait Gallery. London, United Kingdom. | Poet Alexander Pope portrait (c1737) by Jonathan Richardson at National Portrait Gallery. London, United Kingdom. | Author Jonathan Swift known for Gulliver's Travels portrait (1709-10) by studio of Charles Jervas at National Portrait Gallery. London, United Kingdom. |
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| Poet Samuel Johnson portrait (c1756) by Sir Joshua Reynolds at National Portrait Gallery. London, United Kingdom. | James Boswell (biographer of Samuel Johnson) portrait (c1785) by Sir Joshua Reynolds at National Portrait Gallery. London, United Kingdom. | Thomas Paine (author of political tracts 'Common Sense' & 'Rights of Man') portrait (c1791) by Laurent Dabos at National Portrait Gallery. London, United Kingdom. | Mary Wollstonecraft (writer on feminist rights) portrait (1797) by John Opie at National Portrait Gallery. London, United Kingdom. |
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| Scottish poet Robert Burns portrait (c1821) by Alexander Nasmyth at National Portrait Gallery. London, United Kingdom. | Poet Percy Bysshe Shelley portrait (1819) by Amelia Curran at National Portrait Gallery. London, United Kingdom. | Poet George, Lord Byron portrait (1813) by Richard Westall at National Portrait Gallery. London, United Kingdom. | Poet John Keats portrait (1822) by William Hilton after Joseph Severn at National Portrait Gallery. London, United Kingdom. |
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| Poet William Blake portrait (1807) by Thomas Phillips at National Portrait Gallery. London, United Kingdom. | Novelist Jane Austen sketch portrait (c1810) by her sister Cassandra Austen at National Portrait Gallery. London, United Kingdom. | Maria, Lady Callcott (world travel accounts) portrait (1819) by Sir Thomas Lawrence at National Portrait Gallery. London, United Kingdom. | Emily Brontë (Wuthering Heights novelist) portrait (1833) by Patrick Branwell Brontë at National Portrait Gallery. London, United Kingdom. |
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| Brontë sisters (Anne, Emily & Charlotte) portrait (c1834) by Patrick Branwell Brontë at National Portrait Gallery. London, United Kingdom. | Poet William Wordsworth portrait (1842) by Benjamin Robert Haydon at National Portrait Gallery. London, United Kingdom. | Novelist Charles Dickens portrait (1839) by Daniel Maclise at National Portrait Gallery. London, United Kingdom. | Scottish historian Thomas Carlyle portrait (1868) by George Frederic Watts at National Portrait Gallery. London, United Kingdom. |
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| Poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson portrait (c1863-4) by George Frederic Watts at National Portrait Gallery. London, United Kingdom. | Novelist Henry James portrait (1913) by John Singer Sargent at National Portrait Gallery. London, United Kingdom. | Novelist Joseph Conrad bronze bust (1924) by Sir Jacob Epstein at National Portrait Gallery. London, United Kingdom. | Poet Rudyard Kipling bronze bust (1936-7) by Ginette Bingguely-Lejeune at National Portrait Gallery. London, United Kingdom. |
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| Playwright George Bernard Shaw bronze bust (1934) by Sir Jacob Epstein at National Portrait Gallery. London, United Kingdom. |
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