Three-quarter-length portrait of William Blake by Thomas Phillips, 1807. Blake is seated on a bench, pencil in hand, turning away from his writing or drawing to look up and outwards. He wears a...
Scanned image of a portrait by Godfrey Kneller of William Congreve, facing right but looking at the viewer and pointing at something unknown to the right.
Scanned image of a title page of one of William Empson's poetry collections. It reads: English Pastoral Poetry. William Empson. New York. W. W. NORTON & CO. INC. Publishers. There is a small plant...
1800s lithograph of William Lisle Bowles, seated facing right with legs crossed, his left hand on his chin, and wearing a cape. There is an umbrella and a top hat next to his chair on the right.
Oil painting of William Makepeace Thackeray, depicted from the chest up, looking forward. He is wearing a red jacket, and a white collar from the shirt underneath peeks out around his neck. His...
Black and white photograph of William Morris by Frederick Hollyer, c. 1887. Morris, with slanted head, tousled hair, and a beard, looks intently straight forward with his cheek resting on his hand.
The "Chandos" portrait of William Shakespeare, perhaps by John Taylor, c. 1610. Its claims to authenticity are doubtful, but better than most. It was the first portrait acquired by the National...
Three-quarter-length painting of William Wordsworth by Benjamin Robert Haydon, 1842, known as "Wordsworth on Helvellyn" (though it was painted in London, with the mountain scene done from memory)....
Lithograph from a painting of Winifred Maxwell, Countess of Nithsdale, by an unknown artist. She is seated with a landscape visible behind, her hand on a small dog that sits beside her. She is...
Black and white photo of Wyndham Lewis in London, taken by Alvin Langdon Coburn, 25 February 1916. Lewis is seated, with legs spread wide, holding a cigarette in one hand and resting his other hand...
Head-and-shoulders illustration of Zadie Smith by Jillian Tamaki for the "New York Times", 17 November 2016. Smith looks sidelong at the viewer with a slight, enigmatic smile, wearing a blue turban...
Black and white, head-and-shoulders photograph of Zora Neale Hurston smiling. She stands, wearing a small black hat and a sweater with decorated neckline. Library of Congress.
