Jewish sitters

Kopel Kahana

1895-1978
Jewish academic and Rabbi
Sitter in 1 portrait

Yvonne Kapp (Yvonne Cloud)

1903-1999
Writer, political activist, editor and translator
Sitter in 1 portrait

Hans Keller

1919-1985
Musician and musicologist
Sitter in 3 portraits

Isidore Kerman

1905-1998
Solicitor, property speculator, restaurant owner, racecourse owner and philanthropist
Sitter in 2 portraits

R.B. Kitaj

1932-2007
Painter
Sitter in 6 portraits | Artist of 4 portraits

Melanie Klein

1882-1960
Psychoanalyst and writer
Sitter in 2 portraits

Arthur Koestler

1905-1983
Writer
Sitter in 14 portraits

Bernard Kops

1926-2024
Playwright
Sitter in 13 portraits

Alexander Korda

1893-1956
Film producer
Sitter in 13 portraits

Leon Kossoff

1926-2019
Painter and draughtsman
Sitter in 8 portraits | Artist of 1 portrait

Jacob Kramer

1892-1962
Artist
Sitter in 1 portrait | Artist associated with 7 portraits

Sir Hans Adolf Krebs

1900-1981
Biochemist
Sitter in 12 portraits

Minnie Lansbury (née Glassman)

1889-1922
Suffragette and Alderman of Poplar, East London
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sir Denys Lasdun

1914-2001
Architect
Sitter in 6 portraits

Harold Laski

1893-1950
Political theorist
Sitter in 8 portraits

Nigel Lawson, Baron Lawson of Blaby

1932-2023
Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1983-89
Sitter in 8 portraits

Sir Sidney Lee

1859-1926
Shakespearian scholar; editor of the Dictionary of National Biography
Sitter in 1 portrait

Tutte Lemkow (Isak Samuel Lemkow)

1918-1991
Actor and dancer
Sitter in 3 portraits

Helen Lessore

1907-1994
Artist; founder of Beaux Arts Gallery
Sitter in 9 portraits

Paul Philip Levertoff

1878-1954
Hebrew scholar and reverend
Sitter in 1 portrait

Joseph Moses Levy

1812-1888
Founder of the 'Daily Telegraph'
Sitter in 1 portrait

Dayan Myer Szulim Lew

1907-1987
Dayan of the London Beth Din
Sitter in 1 portrait

Oscar Lewenstein

1917-1997
Theatre impresario and film producer
Sitter in 1 portrait

Bernard Lewis

1916-2018
Professor of Near Eastern Studies
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sir George Henry Lewis, 1st Bt

1833-1911
Solicitor
Sitter in 12 portraits

Ted ('Kid') Lewis

1893-1970
Boxing promoter; agent of Jimmy Wilde
Sitter in 1 portrait

Karl Joseph Leyser

1920-1992
Historian
Sitter in 1 portrait

Dame Maureen Lipman

1946-
Actress and writer
Sitter in 2 portraits

Daniel Leopold Lipson

1886-1963
Teacher, Mayor of Cheltenham and Conservative politician; MP for Cheltenham
Sitter in 10 portraits

Benjamin Lumley

1811 or 1812-1875
Opera manager and author
Sitter in 2 portraits

Edgar Marcus Lustgarten

1907-1978
Broadcaster, narrator of criminal trials and WW II propagandist
Sitter in 1 portrait

Linda McCartney

1941-1998
Photographer, artist, musician, businesswoman, cookery writer and animal rights activist
Sitter in 10 portraits | Artist of 14 portraits

Sir Philip Montefiore Magnus-Allcroft (né Magnus), 2nd Bt

1906-1988
Historian, Justice of the Peace and army major
Sitter in 11 portraits

Alicia Markova

1910-2004
Ballet dancer
Sitter in 35 portraits

Rika ('Rixi') Markus (née Scharfstein)

1910-1992
Bridge player and writer
Sitter in 1 portrait

Karl Marx

1818-1883
Social, political and economic theorist
Sitter in 1 portrait

Robert Maxwell

1923-1991
Newspaper proprietor and publisher
Sitter in 9 portraits

Alfred Moritz Mond, 1st Baron Melchett

1868-1930
Industrialist, financier and Liberal politician; MP for Chester, Swansea and Carmarthen
Sitter in 10 portraits

Raphael Meldola

1849-1915
Chemist
Sitter in 7 portraits

Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy

1809-1847
Composer
Sitter in 2 portraits