People & Portraits

Here is a selection of historic portraits and pictures of people from the Amgueddfa Cymru collection. Members of the landowning gentry, workers, politicians, musicians, artists, and writers are all featured in this gallery.

Over time artists became increasingly concerned with reflecting character and the lived experiences of people in Wales. In the mid-nineteenth century the development of photography transformed the nature of portraiture by providing a cheap and relatively instantaneous way to achieve a faithful likeness.