Hampstead's Village People: Portraits Of Cultural Icons

Hampstead's unique qualities have always attracted some of London's most notable intellectual and artistic residents. To celebrate Hampstead and its residents, the National Trust, in collaboration with the National Portrait Gallery, is bringing 30 photographs of the neighbourhood's cultural icons to hang in the equally well-known 17th century Fenton House.

Hampstead's Village People celebrates the people who make it what it is today. It includes portraits of musicians as diverse as Edward Elgar and Boy George, writers Edith Sitwell and Alan Hollinghurst, artists Ben Nicholson and Barbara Hepworth and actors Richard Burton and Judi Dench. More of Hampstead's famous faces will be brought to life and hung on the walls of Fenton House with photographic portraits of Sir John Betjeman by John Gay, Richard Wilson by Trevor Leighton, Helena Bonham Carter, Ricky Gervais, and Martin Amis.

Part of the National Trust's London Project.