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John Harold Adams

1918-2008
Rear-Admiral
Sitter in 1 portrait

Richard Airey, 1st Baron Airey

1803-1881
Army officer
Sitter in 4 portraits

Mark Akenside

1721-1770
Poet and physician
Sitter in 4 portraits

Joshua Alder

1792-1867
Zoologist
Sitter in 1 portrait

Henry Christian Allhusen

1835-1871
Chemical manufacturer and Lieutenant-Colonel
Sitter in 1 portrait

Janet Anderson

1949-2023
Labour politician; MP for Rossendale and Darwen
Sitter in 1 portrait

Mala Anderson

Sitter in 1 portrait

Charles Freer Andrews

1871-1940
Writer on India
Sitter in 12 portraits

Richard Wallace Annand

1914-2004
Captain; recipient of the first Army Victoria Cross of World War II; founder Member of British Assoc. of Hard of Hearing
Sitter in 7 portraits

Thomas Annandale

1838-1907
Professor of Surgery; writer
Sitter in 1 portrait

John Wykenham Archer

1806-1864
Watercolour painter and printmaker
Sitter in 1 portrait

William George Armstrong, Baron Armstrong

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

Georgy Armstrong

Sitter in 1 portrait

Sir Ove Arup

1895-1988
Civil engineer
Sitter in 4 portraits

Hugh Edward Ashdown

1904-1977
Bishop of Newcastle
Sitter in 2 portraits

Lena Ashwell (née Lena Margaret Pocock, later Lady Simson)

1872-1957
Actress, theatre manager, producer and writer; wife of Sir Henry John Forbes Simson; daughter of Charles Ashwell Boteler Pocock
Sitter in 19 portraits

Rowan Atkinson

1955-
Actor and writer
Sitter in 4 portraits

Francis Thomas ('Tom') Bacon

1904-1992
Scientist
Sitter in 1 portrait

Henry Christopher Barker

1818-1899
Rural Dean of Hexham and Hon. Canon of Newcastle
Sitter in 6 portraits

Robert Barker

1739-1806
Painter of panoramas
Sitter in 3 portraits

Dame Phyllida Barlow

1944-2023
Artist; sculptor
Sitter in 4 portraits

Peter Andrew Beardsley

1961-
Footballer and football coach
Sitter in 1 portrait

John Warburton Beckett

1894-1964
Journalist and Labour politician; MP for Gateshead and Peckham
Sitter associated with 2 portraits

Sir (Isaac) Lowthian Bell, 1st Bt

1816-1904
Iron and steel manufacturer and metallurgist
Sitter in 1 portrait

William Bell

1733-1794
Portrait painter
Artist of 1 portrait

George Bellamy

1941-
Musician; rhythm guitarist for The Tornados
Sitter in 4 portraits

Thomas Bewick

1753-1828
Wood-engraver
Sitter associated with 5 portraits

Harold Ernest Bilbrough

1867-1950
Bishop of Newcastle
Sitter in 5 portraits

Richard Billingham

1970-
Artist
Sitter in 1 portrait

Thomas Binney (Benny)

1798-1874
Nonconformist divine
Sitter in 14 portraits

Sir Walter Calverley Blackett, 2nd Bt

1707-1777
Mayor of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Sitter in 1 portrait

Peter Hunter Blair

1912-1982
Historian and academic; fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sir Edward Blakeney

1778-1868
Army officer
Sitter in 2 portraits

Arthur Blenkinsop

1911-1979
Politician; MP for Newcastle-upon-Tyne and South Shields
Sitter in 4 portraits

William Reid Blyton, Baron Blyton

1899-1987
Politician; MP for Houghton-le-Spring
Sitter in 8 portraits

James Bolam

1938-
Actor
Sitter in 1 portrait

Frances St John (née Cavendish), Countess of Bolingbroke

died 1678
Daughter of 1st Duke of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne; wife of 2nd Earl of Bolingbroke
Sitter in 3 portraits

Margaret Grace Bondfield

1873-1953
Trade unionist, campaigner for women's interests and politician; MP for Wallsend, Northampton and first woman cabinet minister
Sitter in 9 portraits

Charles Ian Carr Bosanquet

1903-1986
Vice Chancellor of the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Sitter in 2 portraits

Henry Bowman Brady

1835-1891
Naturalist and pharmacist
Sitter in 2 portraits