Is it possible to add an image (eg png) to a Viewport?

A viewport is really matching the opengl notion of viewport only defining the size of the rendered content not the content itself.

You could use a Layer for this like here: https://playground.babylonjs.com/#0LYEC3#2

The pg also highlights techniques to hide meshes depending of the camera active with layerMask

But be careful layer !======== layerMask