Skip to content
Unfortunately, this content is not available in your region. To learn more, please visit our FAQ page here.

S1E2:Faces of the People

Face of Britain by Simon Schama

6 Oct 2015TV-PG

While most portraits have been of the great and the good who pay to be flattered, some artists have taken all of humanity as their subject. Historian Simon Schama looks at those who have plunged into the crowd and given us the faces of the people. From Hogarth's portrayals of London’s rogues to the suffragette rampage against the nation's art galleries that unleashed the dark side of photography.