Portraits Day - Elgar's Enigma Variations

A selection of images from works featured in today's programme.

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  Caroline Alice Elgar

  portrayed in ‘Enigma Variations’ © Arthur Reynolds Collection/Lebrecht Music & Arts

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  Hew David Steuart-Powell

  portrayed in ‘Enigma Variations’ © Arthur Reynolds Collection/Lebrecht Music & Arts

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  Richard Baxter Townshend

  portrayed in ‘Enigma Variations’ © Arthur Reynolds Collection/Lebrecht Music & Arts

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  William Meath Baker

  portrayed in ‘Enigma Variations’ © Arthur Reynolds Collection/Lebrecht Music & Arts

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  Richard Penrose Arnold

  portrayed in ‘Enigma Variations’ © Arthur Reynolds Collection/Lebrecht Music & Arts

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  Isabel Fitton

  portrayed in ‘Enigma Variations’ © Arthur Reynolds Collection/Lebrecht Music & Arts

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  Arthur Troyte Griffith

  portrayed in ‘Enigma Variations’ © Arthur Reynolds Collection/Lebrecht Music & Arts

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  Winifred Norbury

  portrayed in ‘Enigma Variations’ © Arthur Reynolds Collection/Lebrecht Music & Arts

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  Augustus Jaeger

  portrayed in ‘Enigma Variations’ © Arthur Reynolds Collection/Lebrecht Music & Arts

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  Dora Penny

  portrayed in ‘Enigma Variations’ © Arthur Reynolds Collection/Lebrecht Music & Arts

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  George Robertson Sinclair

  portrayed in Edward Elgar’s ‘Enigma Variations’ © TP/Lebrecht Music & Arts

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  Basil G. Nevinson

  portrayed in ‘Enigma Variations’ © Arthur Reynolds Collection/Lebrecht Music & Arts

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  Lady Mary Lygon

  a subject of ‘Enigma Variations’ © Arthur Reynolds Collection/Lebrecht Music & Arts

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  Helen Weaver

  identified as a possible subject of ‘Enigma Variations’ © Lebrecht Music & Arts

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  Edward Elgar

  portrayed in ‘Enigma Variations’ © Arthur Reynolds Collection/Lebrecht Music & Arts

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  Francis Barton (left) with Benjamin Britten (right)

  portrayed in Britten's 3 Divertimenti for string quartet (Britten-Pears Foundation)

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  Napoleon Bonaparte

  portrayed in Honegger's 'Napoleon' (Delaroche/Bridgeman Art Library/Getty Images)