Mrs. Siddons as the Tragic Muse (detail), 1789, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Dulwich Picture Gallery collection

the collection

Gallery I

The Basil Samuel Charitable Trust Room

British Portraiture

Reynolds: detail from Mrs Siddons as the Tragic Muse

British Portraiture

This room showcases a variety of portraits by British artists from as early as Tudor times right up to the 19th-century.  The anonymous Judd Marriage, which was bequeathed to the gallery in the 16th-century, is displayed alongside well known 18th-century portraits such as Sarah Siddons as the Tragic Muse by Reynolds and Lucy Ebberton by Knapton as well as Denning’s adorable portrait of the Queen Victoria, aged Four.