Regency rebels, radicals and reformers

Thomas Beddoes

1760-1808
Physician
Sitter in 2 portraits

Jeremy Bentham

1748-1832
Social philosopher
Sitter in 9 portraits

Sir John Bowring

1792-1872
Political economist, traveller and the 4th Governor of Hong Kong
Sitter in 18 portraits

Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux

1778-1868
Lord Chancellor
Sitter associated with 280 portraits

Sir Francis Burdett, 5th Bt

1770-1844
Parliamentary reformer
Sitter associated with 135 portraits

John Cartwright

1740-1824
Political reformer
Sitter associated with 6 portraits

William Cobbett

1763-1835
Journalist, agriculturalist and politician; MP for Oldham
Sitter associated with 57 portraits

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

1772-1834
Poet
Sitter in 10 portraits

George Crabbe

1754-1832
Poet
Sitter in 6 portraits

George Dyer

1755-1841
Author
Sitter in 1 portrait

Daniel Isaac Eaton

circa 1753-1814
Radical writer and publisher
Sitter in 1 portrait | Artist associated with 2 portraits

William Godwin

1756-1836
Philosopher and novelist
Sitter in 13 portraits

George Grote

1794-1871
Classical historian and Liberal politician; MP for City of London
Sitter in 15 portraits

Thomas Hardy

1840-1928
Novelist and poet
Sitter in 60 portraits

William Hazlitt

1778-1830
Essayist, journalist and critic
Sitter in 5 portraits | Artist of 1 portrait

William Hone

1780-1842
Bookseller, pamphleteer and writer
Sitter in 3 portraits

Joseph Hume

1777-1855
Doctor and politician; MP for Aberdeen Burghs, Middlesex and Montrose Burghs
Sitter associated with 76 portraits

Henry Hunt

1773-1835
Radical politician and demagogue; MP for Preston
Sitter associated with 21 portraits

Leigh Hunt

1784-1859
Poet, essayist and critic
Sitter associated with 11 portraits

John Gale Jones

1769-1838
Radical political orator and agitator
Sitter in 2 portraits