Shakespeare to Winehouse open 9:00am–7:00pm on Thu, Fri, Sat from 7 July
Purchased 2018
Joseph Banks KCB (1743-1820), naturalist, grew up on his father's Lincolnshire estate, Revesby, but his lifelong interest in botany developed at Eton and Oxford.
13 portraits in the collection
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Douglas Stewart Fine Books 2013
Purchased 2011
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Gina and Ted Gregg 2010
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2018
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2018
Celebrating a new painted portrait of Joseph Banks, Sarah Engledow spins a yarn of the naturalist, the first kangaroo in France and Don, a Spanish ram.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2010
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Gina and Ted Gregg 2010
Purchased 2008
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2014
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Gina and Ted Gregg 2010
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2010
Shipmates for years, James Cook and Joseph Banks each kept a journal but neither man shed light on their relationship.
The portrait of Dr. Johann Reinhold Forster and his son George Forster from 1780, is one of the oldest in the NPG's collection.