Explorers, Travellers and Adventurers

Alexander Alexander

active 1830
Scottish traveller
Sitter in 2 portraits

Eric Allden

1886-1949
Traveller, cultural attaché and civil servant
Sitter in 1 portrait

Francis Vyvyan Jago Arundell

1780-1846
Traveller and antiquary
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sir Horatio Thomas Austin

1801-1865
Admiral and explorer
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sir George Back

1796-1878
Naval officer and explorer
Sitter in 6 portraits

Florence Barbara Maria (née von Sass), Lady Baker

1841-1916
Traveller in Africa; second wife of Sir Samuel White Baker
Sitter in 5 portraits

Sir Samuel White Baker

1821-1893
Traveller and sportsman
Sitter in 12 portraits

George Baldwin

1743?-1826
Traveller and mystic
Sitter in 1 portrait

William John Bankes

1786-1855
Traveller, egyptologist, antiquary and politician; MP for Truro, University of Cambridge, Marlborough and Dorset
Sitter in 2 portraits

Sir Joseph Banks, Bt

1743-1820
Explorer and botanist
Sitter associated with 35 portraits

William Bedloe

1650-1680
Informer and adventurer
Sitter associated with 9 portraits

Aphra Behn (née Johnson)

1640-1689
Dramatist, novelist and spy
Sitter associated with 4 portraits

Gertrude Bell

1868-1926
Traveller, spy and archaeologist
Sitter in 2 portraits

Joseph René Bellot

1826-1853
French Arctic explorer
Sitter in 2 portraits

Giovanni Battista Belzoni

1778-1823
Performing artist and Egyptologist
Sitter in 3 portraits

Penelope (née Chetwode), Lady Betjeman

1910-1986
Author as 'Penelope Chetwode'; wife of Sir John Betjeman; daughter of 1st Baron Chetwode and 7th Baronet of Oakley
Sitter in 14 portraits

Sir (Frederick) George Binney

1900-1972
Explorer; Businessman
Sitter in 4 portraits

Isabella Lucy Bird Bishop

1832-1904
Philanthropist, writer, traveller and photographer
Sitter in 2 portraits

William Bligh

1754-1817
Admiral and explorer; captain of the Bounty
Sitter in 5 portraits

Thomas Blood

1618?-1680
Adventurer; attempted to steal Crown jewels
Sitter associated with 9 portraits

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