Here we have Sir Walter Raleigh. Painted in 1588, this is a man in his prime. He was a poet, an explorer, a pioneer, a prisoner, but maybe you know him as the unrequited lover of Queen Elizabeth I.
This is a portrait of Mary Neville and her son Gregory Fiennes, and it was painted in 1559 by Hans Eworth. So what really drew my curiosity and attention to this portrait is that it's the oldest portrait in the exhibition.
This is a sculpture of Tim Berners-Lee by the artist Sean Henry commissioned in 2015. So how do you choose your favourite portrait outta an exhibition of 80 amazing portraits?
We're looking at Man's Head (Self-portrait III) from 1963 by Lucian Freud.
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