Statesmen

Richard Cobden

1804-1865
Politician; MP for several constituencies, manufacturer and free trade campaigner
Sitter in 50 portraits

Nicholas William Ridley-Colborne, 1st Baron Colborne

1779-1854
Statesman and financier
Sitter in 5 portraits

Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork

1566-1643
Irish statesman
Sitter associated with 2 portraits

Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 1st Earl of Cranbrook

1814-1906
Politician, Home Secretary and Secretary of State for War; ex-officio Trustee of the National Portrait Gallery
Sitter in 29 portraits

Robert Offley Ashburton Crewe-Milnes, 1st Marquess of Crewe

1858-1945
Leader of the Liberal Party and writer
Sitter in 22 portraits

George Mackenzie, 1st Earl of Cromarty

1630-1714
Statesman
Sitter in 2 portraits

Henry Cromwell

1628-1674
Son of Oliver Cromwell and statesman
Sitter associated with 13 portraits

Fox Maule-Ramsay, 2nd Baron Panmure and 11th Earl of Dalhousie

1801-1874
Army officer and Liberal politician; MP for Perth and Elgin Burghs
Sitter in 8 portraits

George Legge, 3rd Earl of Dartmouth

1755-1810
Statesman
Sitter in 7 portraits

Louis Antoine de Bougainville

1729-1811
French statesman
Sitter in 1 portrait

Thomas Philip de Grey, 2nd Earl de Grey

1781-1859
Statesman
Sitter in 10 portraits

Henry Stanley, 4th Earl of Derby

1531-1593
Statesman
Sitter in 4 portraits

William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Devonshire

1641-1707
Statesman
Sitter associated with 11 portraits

Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire

1718-1793
Statesman
Sitter in 1 portrait

John Perceval, 2nd Earl of Egmont

1711-1770
Statesman
Sitter in 7 portraits

Charles Wyndham, 2nd Earl of Egremont

1710-1763
Statesman
Sitter in 1 portrait

Victor Alexander Bruce, 9th Earl of Elgin

1849-1917
Politician and viceroy of India
Sitter in 7 portraits

Mountstuart Elphinstone

1779-1859
Indian statesman
Sitter in 7 portraits

Thomas Cromwell, Earl of Essex

circa 1485-1540
Statesman
Sitter associated with 28 portraits

Sir George Eulas Foster

1847-1931
Canadian statesman
Sitter in 6 portraits