Airmen and Airwomen

John Nares Addinsell

1908-1991
Aviator and RAF flying instructor
Sitter associated with 1 portrait

Edward Barker Addison

1898-1987
Air Vice-Marshal
Sitter in 1 portrait

Bernard Adolf

1904-1979
Air-Commodore
Sitter in 3 portraits

Francesco Agello

1902-1942
Italian test pilot
Sitter in 1 portrait

(Robert) Stanley Aitken

1896-1982
Air Vice-Marshal
Sitter in 3 portraits

Sir John William Alcock

1892-1919
Aviator and RAF Captain; pilot of the first non-stop flight across the Atlantic
Sitter in 1 portrait

Nigel Clinton Alers-Hankey

1912-1941
Pilot officer; son of Eric Alers-Hankey
Sitter in 1 portrait

Prince Alexander Obolensky

1916-1940
Rugby player; Acting Pilot Officer in the Royal Auxiliary Air Forece; son of Prince Serge Obolensky
Sitter in 9 portraits

Geoffrey Hill Ambler

1904-1978
Inventor, air force officer and amateur rower
Sitter in 1 portrait

(Harold) Julian Amery, Baron Amery of Lustleigh

1919-1996
Politician; Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office and RAF captain
Sitter in 23 portraits

Jeffery John Archer Amherst, 5th Earl Amherst

1896-1993
Pilot, businessman, journalist and author
Sitter in 1 portrait

Princess Anne of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg (née Lady Anne Savile)

1864-1927
Socialite, aviation patron and aviator; wife of Prince Ludwig Karl of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg; daughter of 4th Earl of Mexborough
Sitter in 8 portraits

Diego (Alberto) Aracena (Aguilar)

1891-1972
Chilean diplomat and Air Force general
Sitter in 1 portrait

Lady Lettice Mildred Mary Ashley-Cooper

1911-1990
Flight Officer W.A.A.F. and author; daughter of 9th Earl of Shaftesbury
Sitter in 1 portrait

Dame Veronica Margaret Ashworth

1910-1977
Air Commandant-Matron-in-Chief
Sitter in 1 portrait

David Francis William Atcherley

1904-1952
Air Vice-Marshal
Sitter in 8 portraits

Sir Roger Llewellyn Atcherley

1904-1970
Air Marshal
Sitter in 8 portraits

Frederick Colvin George Eden, 6th Baron Auckland

1895-1941
Associate of the Institution of Naval Architects; pilot and wartime flying instructor; assistant to the Air Attaché, Paris
Sitter in 1 portrait

Richard Cecil Ayling

1916-1995
Air Vice-Marshal
Sitter in 1 portrait

Philip Babington

1894-1965
Air Marshal
Sitter in 11 portraits

Sir Douglas Robert Stewart Bader

1910-1982
Air force officer
Sitter in 15 portraits

George Brindley Aufrere Baker

1894-1968
Air Vice-Marshal
Sitter in 7 portraits

Sir John Wakeling Baker

1897-1978
Air Chief-Marshal
Sitter in 15 portraits

Sir John Darcy Baker-Carr

1906-1998
Air Marshal
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sir John Eustace Arthur Baldwin

1892-1975
Air Marshal
Sitter in 5 portraits

Harold Harington Balfour, 1st Baron Balfour of Inchrye

1897-1988
Politician and Great War flying ace
Sitter in 23 portraits

Albert Ball

1896-1917
Fighter pilot; recipient of the Victoria Cross
Sitter in 2 portraits

Sir Benjamin Ball

1912-1977
Air Vice-Marshal
Sitter in 1 portrait

Percy Ronald Gardner Bernard, 5th Earl of Bandon

1904-1979
Air Chief Marshal
Sitter in 1 portrait

Francis Rodwell Banks

1898-1985
Royal Air Force Air Commodore aviation engine specialist
Sitter in 2 portraits

Sir Alexander Bannerman, 11th Bt

1871-1934
Military aviator
Sitter in 3 portraits

Clifford Cockcroft Barker

1909-1977
Air Vice-Marshal
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sir Denis Hensley Fulton Barnett

1906-1993
Air Chief Marshal
Sitter in 1 portrait

Dame (Mary) Henrietta Barnett

1905-1985
Director of the Women's Royal Air Force
Sitter in 4 portraits

Sir John Barraclough

1918-2008
Air Chief Marshal
Sitter in 2 portraits

Sir Arthur Sheridan Barratt

1891-1966
Air Marshal
Sitter in 17 portraits

Sir Leslie John Vernon Bates

1896-1966
Air Vice-Marshal
Sitter in 1 portrait

Jean Gardner Batten

1909-1982
Airwoman
Sitter in 6 portraits

Sir George Robert Beamish

1905-1967
Air Marshal
Sitter in 8 portraits

Eric Bentley Beauman

1891-1989
Wing Commander, RAF
Sitter in 2 portraits

William Flint Beckwith

1913-1971
Air Vice-Marshal
Sitter in 12 portraits

Sir Michael Beetham

1923-2015
Marshal of the Royal Air Force
Sitter in 1 portrait

Donald Clifford Tyndall Bennett

1910-1986
Air Vice-Marshal; Chief Executive of British South American Airways
Sitter in 14 portraits

Faith Bennett

1903-1969
Actress and pilot
Sitter in 4 portraits

George Herman Bennions

1913-2003
Pilot Officer
Sitter in 3 portraits

Constantine Evelyn Benson

died 1960
Air Commodore
Sitter in 1 portrait

Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands

1911-2004
RAF Wing Commander; husband of Queen Juliana of the Netherlands; son of Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld
Sitter in 1 portrait

Denzil Francis Heriz Biggane ('D.F.H.') Biggane

died 1943
Flying Officer, Bomber Command
Sitter in 5 portraits

Kenneth Biggs

born 1890
Air Vice-Marshal and honorary physician to King George V
Sitter in 5 portraits

Noel Pemberton Billing

1880-1948
Pioneer aviator, inventor, writer and politician
Sitter in 3 portraits

Christopher Neil Hope Bilney

1898-1988
Air Vice-Marshal
Sitter in 1 portrait

Prince Birabongse Bhanudej Bhanubandh (also called 'Prince Bira of Siam' and 'B. Bira')

1914-1985
Thai prince; Formula 1 racing driver
Sitter in 1 portrait

Frank Ronald Bird

1918-1983
Air Vice-Marshal, RAF
Sitter in 1 portrait

Jean Lennox Bird

1912-1957
First woman pilot in the RAF
Sitter in 1 portrait

Harold Arthur Cooper Bird-Wilson

1919-2000
Air Vice Marshal
Sitter in 2 portraits

William Avery ('Billy') Bishop

1894-1956
Air Marshal and recipient of the Victoria Cross
Sitter in 1 portrait

Tom Campbell Black

1899-1936
Aviator
Sitter in 1 portrait

Lilian Bland

1878-1971
Aviator, aeronautical engineer and journalist; designed and constructed the 'Bland Mayfly'
Sitter in 1 portrait

Paul Sandland Blockey

1905-1963
Air Vice-Marshal
Sitter in 1 portrait

Robert Stewart Blucke

1897-1988
Air Vice-Marshal
Sitter in 3 portraits