Politicians

Francis Leslie Pym, Baron Pym

1922-2008
Conservative politician; Foreign Secretary, Defence Secretary, Northern Ireland Secretary and Leader of the House of Commons
Sitter associated with 30 portraits

Joan Quennell

1923-2006
Politician; Conservative MP for Petersfield
Sitter in 1 portrait

Hugh Richard Heathcote Gascoyne-Cecil, Baron Quickswood

1869-1956
Politician and provost of Eton
Sitter in 29 portraits

Edward Bernard Raczynski

1891-1993
Diplomat, writer, politician and President of Poland in exile
Sitter in 1 portrait

Giles Heneage Radice, Baron Radice

1936-2022
Labour politician; MP for Chester-le-Street and for North Durham; life peer; author
Sitter in 2 portraits

Jacob Pleydell-Bouverie, 2nd Earl of Radnor

1750-1828
Politician; MP for Salisbury
Sitter in 6 portraits

William Pleydell-Bouverie, 3rd Earl of Radnor

1779-1869
Whig politician; MP for Downtown and Salisbury
Sitter in 4 portraits

William Pleydell-Bouverie, 5th Earl of Radnor

1841-1900
Conservative politician; MP for South Wiltshire and Enfield
Sitter in 1 portrait

Jacob Pleydell-Bouverie, 6th Earl of Radnor

1868-1930
Soldier and Conservative politician; MP for Wilton
Sitter in 6 portraits

Sheikh Mujibur Rahman

1920-1975
President of Bangladesh
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sir (Henry) Victor Alpin MacKinnon Raikes

1901-1986
Politician; MP for Liverpool
Sitter in 24 portraits

Mylai Chinna Thambi Pillai Rajah

1883-1943
Politician and activist
Sitter in 1 portrait

Archibald Henry Maule Ramsay

1894-1955
Captain, founder of The Right Club and Conservative politician; MP for Peebles and Southern Midlothia
Sitter in 6 portraits

Hon. Charles Maule Ramsay

1859-1936
Soldier and politician; son of 12th Earl of Dalhousie
Sitter in 5 portraits

John Ramsbottom

1778-1845
Politician; MP for Windsor
Sitter in 1 portrait

Eugene Joseph Squire Hargreaves Ramsden, Baron Ramsden of Birkenshaw

1883-1955
Politician; MP for Bradford
Sitter in 10 portraits

George Taylor Ramsden

1879-1936
Mayor of Halifax and politician
Sitter in 3 portraits

James Edward Ramsden

1923-2020
Chairman of the London Clinic and Conservative politician; Secretary of State for War; MP for Harrogate
Sitter in 9 portraits

John Charles Ramsden

1788-1836
Politician; MP for Malton and Yorkshire
Sitter in 1 portrait

Harry Enos Randall

1899-1976
Labour politician; MP for Clitheroe and Gateshead West
Sitter in 12 portraits

James Ranger

1889-1975
Labour politician; MP for Ilford South
Sitter in 8 portraits

Sir Frederic Carne Rasch, 1st Bt

1847-1914
Politician for Essex and army officer
Sitter in 3 portraits

Robert William Hugh O'Neill, 1st Baron Rathcavan

1883-1982
Politician; 1st Speaker of the Northern Ireland House of Commons and MP for Antrim
Sitter in 2 portraits

Cecil William Norton, 1st Baron Rathcreedan

1850-1930
Politician; MP for Newington West
Sitter in 5 portraits

David Robert Plunket, 1st Baron Rathmore

1838-1919
Politician, first Commissioner of Works and lawyer
Sitter in 7 portraits

Nathan Raw

1866-1940
Physician and politician
Sitter in 7 portraits

Sir Alfred Cooper Rawson

1876-1946
Businessman and Conservative politician; MP for Brighton
Sitter in 3 portraits

Sir William Ray

1876-1937
Conservative politician; MP for Richmond
Sitter in 4 portraits

Walter Russell Rea, 1st Baron Rea of Eskdale

1873-1948
Politician and banker
Sitter in 5 portraits

Philip Russell Rea, 2nd Baron Rea

1900-1981
Politician and merchant banker
Sitter in 15 portraits

Russell Rea

1846-1916
Politician, shipowner and merchant
Sitter in 4 portraits

Ronald Reagan

1911-2004
President of the United States
Sitter in 3 portraits

Denis Rearden

1817-1885
Politician; MP for Athlone
Sitter in 1 portrait

John Thomas Freeman-Mitford, 1st Earl of Redesdale

1805-1886
Politician; son of 1st Baron Redesdale
Sitter in 5 portraits

Peter Wynford Innes Rees, Baron Rees

1926-2008
Lawyer, businessman and Conservative politician; MP for Dover
Sitter in 1 portrait

Jacob William Rees-Mogg

1969-
Politician
Sitter in 2 portraits

Joseph Reeves

1888-1969
Labour politician; MP for Greenwich
Sitter in 9 portraits

William Pember Reeves

1857-1932
High commissioner, New Zealand, historian and poet
Sitter in 2 portraits

James Scott Cumberland Reid, Baron Reid

1890-1975
Scottish Unionist politician and judge
Sitter in 13 portraits

Sir George Houstoun Reid

1845-1918
Colonial politician; fourth Prime Minister of Australia
Sitter in 3 portraits