| 1977 | The Minories, Colchester |
| 1978 | Rochdale Art Gallery : touring to Ferens Art Gallery Hull, Harris Museum & Art Gallery Preston, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham |
| 1980 | Marlborough Fine Art, London |
| 1985 | Marlborough Fine Art, London |
| 1986 | Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh |
| 1988 | Marlborough Fine Art, London |
| 1992 | Agnew’s, London |
| 1996 | Agnew’s, London |
| 1998 | Wolsey Art Gallery, Christchurch Mansion, Ipswich |
| 1999 | Hirschl and Adler, NY |
| 2000 | Agnew’s, London |
| 2000 | National Portrait Gallery |
| 2005 | Agnew’s, London |
| 2011 | Agnew’s, London – A Tale of Two Houses |
| 2012 | Clare Hall, Cambridge - 50-year retrospective of self-portraits |
| 2012 | St John’s College, Oxford - 50-year retrospective of self-portraits |
| 2013 | Chambers Fine Art, New York |
| 1971 | Painting and Perception, The Macroberts Art Centre Gallery, University of Sterling |
| 1974 | Painting 1974, Hayward Gallery, London |
| 1977 | British Painting 1952-77, Royal Academy of Arts, London |
| 1983 | Britain Salutes NY, Marlborough Gallery, NY |
| 1984 | The Hard-Won Image, Tate Gallery, London |
| 1986-87 | Foundation Veranneman invites Marlborough, Foundation Veranneman, Kruishoutem, Belgium |
| 1989 | Monet to Freud, National Art Collections Fund Loan Exhibition, Sotheby’s, London |
| 1989 | Salute to Turner, National Trust Foundation for Art, Agnew’s, London |
| 1990 | The Pursuit of the Real, British Figurative Painting from Sickert to Bacon, Manchester City Art Galleries, The Barbican Art Gallery, Glasgow City Art Gallery |
| 1992 | The New Patrons, Twentieth Century Art from Corporate Collections, National Art Collection Fund, Christies, London |
| 1995 | Contemporary Portraits from Suffolk to Essex, Gainsborough’s House, Sudbury, Suffolk |
| 1995 | Contemporary British Artists Celebrate 100 years of The National Trust, Christie’s, London |
| 2000 | Painting the Century, National Portrait Gallery, London. |
| 2001 | A Sea of Faces, The National Maritime Museum, Greenwich. |
| 2004 | Visions of London, Art Space Gallery |
| 2005-14 | Royal Portrait Society, Annual Exhibition (2005 Ondaatje prize, 2015 Conversation Piece prize) |
| 2007 | Looking Forward: 25 British Artists, Agnew’s, London |
| 2007 | Venice, City of Dreams, Sotheby’s, London |
| 2014 | The Norwich Life Room: Wonnacott & Lessore, Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery |
| 2014 | About Life: Wonnacott & Lessore, NUA Gallery, Norwich, University of the Arts |
| 2014-15 | Royals Then and Now, Beningbrough Hall, Yorkshire |