Explorers, Travellers and Adventurers

Alessandro, Count of Cagliostro (Giuseppe Balsamo)

1743-1795
Italian adventurer and magician
Sitter in 2 portraits

Albert Frederick Calvert

circa 1872-1946
Traveller and author
Sitter in 1 portrait

Julia Margaret Cameron

1815-1879
Pioneer photographer
Sitter in 9 portraits | Artist associated with 119 portraits

Charlotte Canning (née Stuart), Countess Canning

1817-1861
Wife of 1st Earl Canning
Sitter in 3 portraits

Princess Caroline of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel

1768-1821
Queen of George IV
Sitter in 101 portraits

Sir John Carr

1772-1832
Traveller
Sitter in 1 portrait

Verner Duncan Carse

1913-2004
Polar explorer; radio broadcaster and actor
Sitter in 1 portrait

Margaret Catchpole

1762-1841
Convict and writer
Sitter in 1 portrait

Frederick Spencer Chapman

1907-1971
Explorer, mountaineer, jungle warfare expert and author
Sitter in 11 portraits

Sir John Chardin

1643-1712
Diamond merchant and travel writer
Sitter in 5 portraits

Alfred Buchanan Cheetham

1868-1918
Seaman and explorer on Antarctic expeditions
Sitter in 1 portrait

Apsley George Benet Cherry-Garrard

1886-1959
Polar explorer
Sitter in 1 portrait

Francis Rawdon Chesney

1789-1872
General and explorer
Sitter in 2 portraits

Sir (Mary) Valentine Ignatius Chirol

1852-1929
Traveller, journalist and writer
Sitter in 1 portrait

Hugh Clapperton

1788-1827
African explorer
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sir Richard Collinson

1811-1883
Naval officer and explorer
Sitter in 4 portraits

Sheila Galbraith Combe (née Macdonald)

born 1905
Mountaineer; wife of Harold Percy Combe; daughter of Claude Macdonald
Sitter associated with 1 portrait

Arthur Conolly

1807-1842
Asiatic traveller
Sitter in 1 portrait

Thomas Coryate

1577?-1617
Traveller
Sitter in 5 portraits

Elizabeth Craven (née Berkeley), Margravine of Brandenburg-Ansbach-Bayreuth

1750-1828
Dramatist; author; traveller
Sitter in 5 portraits