Inventors

Geoffrey Hill Ambler

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

Sir Richard Arkwright

1732-1792
Engineer and inventor
Sitter in 2 portraits

William George Armstrong, Baron Armstrong

1810-1900
Armaments manufacturer and industrialist
Sitter associated with 7 portraits

Lydia Arnold

circa 1989-
Scientist and inventor
Sitter in 1 portrait

Charles Babbage

1791-1871
Mathematician, mechanical engineer, philosopher and computer pioneer
Sitter in 5 portraits

Archibald Barr

1855-1931
Inventor of range-finders
Sitter in 1 portrait

Trevor Baylis

1937-2018
Inventor
Sitter in 2 portraits

Sir Tim Berners-Lee

1955-
Inventor of the World Wide Web and Director of the World Wide Web Consortium
Sitter in 4 portraits

Edward Lyon Berthon

1813-1899
Inventor; Vicar of Romsey
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sir Henry Bessemer

1813-1898
Engineer and inventor
Sitter in 6 portraits

Noel Pemberton Billing

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

Louis Charles Joseph Blériot

1872-1936
Aviator, inventor and engineer
Sitter in 10 portraits

George Boole

1815-1864
Mathematician; inventor of Boolean logic
Sitter in 2 portraits

Samuel Botley

1642-circa 1696
Stenographer and inventor of a system of shorthand
Sitter in 1 portrait

Joseph Bramah

1748-1814
Inventor
Sitter in 3 portraits

William Brockedon

1787-1854
Painter, writer and inventor
Sitter in 2 portraits | Artist associated with 112 portraits

Charles Brooke

1804-1879
Surgeon and inventor of measuring instruments
Sitter in 1 portrait

John Broster

Inventor of system for removal of speech impediments
Sitter in 2 portraits

Sydney George Brown

1873-1948
Inventor and electrical engineer
Sitter in 1 portrait

Edmund Cartwright

1743-1823
Inventor
Sitter in 4 portraits

William Castle

1833-1911
Engineer, inventor
Sitter associated with 1 portrait

Tiberius Cavallo

1749-1809
Scientist and inventor
Sitter associated with 4 portraits

Antoine Claudet

1797-1867
Photographer and inventor
Artist associated with 45 portraits

Sir Christopher Cockerell

1910-1999
Scientist and inventor of the hovercraft
Sitter in 4 portraits

Sir William Congreve, 2nd Bt

1772-1828
Military inventor
Sitter in 4 portraits

Samuel Crompton

1753-1827
Inventor
Sitter in 4 portraits

Peter Koch de Gooreynd

Inventor, music-publisher and song writer
Sitter in 1 portrait

Warren de la Rue

1815-1889
Chemist and astronomer
Sitter in 5 portraits

Bryan Donkin

1768-1855
Inventor and engineer
Sitter in 3 portraits

Cornelis Drebbel

1572-1633
Philosopher and scientific inventor
Sitter in 1 portrait

Joseph Chessborough Dyer

1780-1871
Inventor
Sitter in 2 portraits

James Dyson

1947-
Designer and inventor
Sitter in 4 portraits

Richard Lovell Edgeworth

1744-1817
Writer and inventor
Sitter in 2 portraits

Thomas Alva Edison

1847-1931
Inventor
Sitter in 6 portraits

Benjamin Joseph Edwards

1837-1914
Photographer, inventor and entrepreneur
Artist of 2 portraits

Matthew Flinders

1774-1814
Hydrographer; inventor of the Flinders Bar
Sitter in 1 portrait

George Forbes

1849-1936
Electrical engineer and inventor
Sitter in 2 portraits

Henry Fourdrinier

1766-1854
Inventor
Sitter in 2 portraits

Jeremy Fry

1924-2005
Inventor, engineer and patron of the Arts
Sitter in 1 portrait

Dennis Gabor (né Günszberg) (Dénes Gábor)

1900-1979
Electronics engineer and humanist
Sitter in 5 portraits

Sir Daniel Gooch, 1st Bt

1816-1889
Railway pioneer and inventor
Sitter in 5 portraits

George Edward Gouraud

1842-1912
Soldier and pioneer of recorded music
Sitter in 1 portrait

Henry Greathead

1757-1816
Lifeboat inventor
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sir Goldsworthy Gurney

1793-1875
Inventor
Sitter in 1 portrait

Stephen Hales

1677-1761
Natural philosopher, chemist and inventor
Sitter in 6 portraits

Joseph Aloysius Hansom

1803-1882
Architect and inventor of the safety cab
Sitter in 1 portrait

John Harmar

died 1798
Dissenting minister at Sheffield and inventor
Sitter in 1 portrait

Lewis Haslam

1856-1922
Politician; MP for Monmouth and Newport; inventor of Airtex
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sir Isaac Holden, 1st Bt

1807-1897
Inventor
Sitter in 1 portrait

Austin Hopkinson

1879-1962
Politician, industrialist and inventor
Sitter in 12 portraits

Sir James Horlick, 1st Bt

1844-1921
Co-inventor and manufacturer of Horlicks health drink
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sir James Nockells Horlick, 4th Bt

1886-1972
Lieutenant-Colonel, cricketer, politician, rhododendron breeder and co-inventor of Horlicks Malted Milk drink
Sitter in 1 portrait

Jonathan Hulls

circa 1699-1758
Projector of steam navigation
Sitter in 1 portrait

William Leonard Hunt

1838-1929
'The Great Farini'; tightrope walker, entertainment promoter and inventor
Sitter associated with 2 portraits

John Kay

1704-1780 or 1781
Inventor of textile manufacturing machinery
Sitter in 1 portrait

William Thomson, Baron Kelvin

1824-1907
Mathematician, physicist and inventor
Sitter in 30 portraits

Hedy Lamarr

1914-2000
Actress and inventor
Sitter in 1 portrait

Bertram Lambert

1881-1963
Fellow Emeritus of Merton College, Oxford; inventor of the Box Respirator
Sitter in 1 portrait

Evan Leigh

1810-1876
Inventor and writer
Sitter in 1 portrait

James Henry Lewis

1786-1853
Stenographer and inventor of short-hand
Sitter associated with 1 portrait