Writers and critics

Tony Parsons

1953-
Writer
Sitter in 2 portraits

Frances Partridge

1900-2004
Author and literary journalist
Sitter in 9 portraits | Artist associated with 2 portraits

Ralph Partridge

1894-1960
Soldier in World War I and writer; former husband of Dora Carrington, and later husband of Frances Marshall
Sitter in 13 portraits | Artist associated with 2 portraits

Walter Horatio Pater

1839-1894
Writer; scholar and art critic
Sitter in 1 portrait

Brigit Patmore (née Ethel Elizabeth Morrison-Scott)

1888-1965
Author and society hostess
Sitter in 1 portrait

Alan Stewart Paton

1903-1988
Writer
Sitter in 7 portraits

Raymond M. Patterson

1898-1984
Writer and explorer
Sitter in 1 portrait

Prince Paul Alexandrovitch Chavchavadze

1899-1971
Writer and translator
Sitter in 3 portraits

Anna Pavord

1940-
Writer on gardens, journalist and broadcaster
Sitter in 1 portrait

Daniel Peacock

1958-
Actor, writer for television and director
Sitter in 1 portrait

Mervyn Laurence Peake

1911-1968
Artist and writer
Sitter in 2 portraits | Artist of 2 portraits

Charles Willson Peale

1741-1827
Painter, engraver, sculptor, writer and inventor
Artist associated with 3 portraits

Philippa Pearce

1920-2006
Children's writer
Sitter in 1 portrait

Phyllis Pearsall

1906-1996
Artist and writer; founder and Managing Director of the Geographers' A to Z Map Co. Ltd
Sitter in 1 portrait

Ann Pedler

born 1901
Writer, novelist and journalist
Sitter in 8 portraits

Simon Pegg

1970-
Actor, comedian, writer and director
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sir Max Pemberton

1863-1950
Novelist and magazine editor
Sitter in 11 portraits

Steve Pemberton

1967-
Actor and writer
Sitter in 1 portrait

Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke

1561-1621
Writer and literary patron
Sitter associated with 11 portraits

John Penn

1760-1834
Writer
Sitter in 6 portraits