The meetings of parliaments and councils have been portrayed in art but usually with an unsatisfactory emphasis on multiple small portraits of their members. Of course many identifiable members of councils and parliaments have also been recorded in individual and group portraits.

A few historic parliamentary occasions have been reconstructed by artists after the event. Most notable, however, are the contemporary views of the dramatic destruction of the old Houses of Parliament by fire in 1834, followed by the war damage of 1941.