Highlights of the latest updates

 Horatio Nelson, Viscount Nelson  Nyree Dawn Porter  Constantine I  Anne Boleyn  Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill   Eileen Forrester Agar

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Image credits:

Horatio Nelson, Viscount Nelson (1758–1805): by Sir William Beechey, 1800. © National Portrait Gallery, London

Nyree Dawn Porter (1936–2001): by Vivienne, 1960s. © reserved; collection National Portrait Gallery, London

Constantine I (272/33–337): head. photograph: AKG London

Anne (c. 1500–1536): by unknown artist, late 16th cent. [original, c.1533–6]. © National Portrait Gallery, London

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (1874–1965): by Walter Sickert, 1927. © courtesy Estate of Walter Sickert; collection National Portrait Gallery, London

Eileen Forrester Agar (1899–1991): self-portrait, 1927. © Estate of Eileen Agar; collection National Portrait Gallery, London