Explorers, Travellers and Adventurers

Sir Henry Blount

1602-1682
Traveller
Sitter in 3 portraits

Wilfrid Scawen Blunt

1840-1922
Traveller, politician and poet
Sitter in 9 portraits

Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon

1827-1891
Artist and women's rights activist; benefactor of Girton College, Cambridge
Sitter in 3 portraits

Andrew Boorde

circa 1490-1549
Traveller and physician
Sitter in 3 portraits

Birdie Bowers

1883-1912
Polar explorer
Sitter in 2 portraits | Artist associated with 1 portrait

Sir John Bowring

1792-1872
Political economist, traveller and the 4th Governor of Hong Kong
Sitter in 18 portraits

Anna (née Allnutt), Lady Brassey

1839-1887
Traveller and writer; wife of 1st Earl Brassey; daughter of John Allnutt
Sitter in 7 portraits

George Washington Brazier-Creagh

1858-1942
Colonel; Indian Civil servant; Explorer
Sitter in 3 portraits

Sir Philip Lee Brocklehurst, 2nd Bt

1887-1975
Lieutenant-Colonel and traveller
Sitter in 4 portraits

Vera Edyth (née Griffith-Boscawen), Lady Broughton

1894-1968
Pioneering ethnographic photographer and traveller
Sitter in 2 portraits

Joe Brown

1930-2020
Mountaineer
Sitter in 1 portrait

James Bruce

1730-1794
Explorer
Sitter associated with 5 portraits

Angus Buchanan

1886-1954
Explorer, photographer and film-maker
Sitter in 2 portraits

Claudius Buchanan

1766-1815
Traveller and missionary chaplain
Sitter in 2 portraits

James Silk Buckingham

1786-1855
Writer and traveller
Sitter in 4 portraits

William John Burchell

1781-1863
Explorer and naturalist
Sitter in 3 portraits

John Lewis Burckhardt

1784-1817
Traveller in the East
Sitter in 1 portrait

Frederick Burnaby

1842-1885
Soldier, traveller and balloonist
Sitter in 10 portraits

Isabel (née Arundel), Lady Burton

1831-1896
Traveller and explorer; wife of Sir Richard Burton
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sir Richard Francis Burton

1821-1890
Explorer and writer
Sitter in 10 portraits