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William Colepeper

1664-1726
Politician; one of the five 'Kentish Petitioners', 1701 and poet
Sitter in 1 portrait

Herbert Wybault Colvin

1858-1882
Army officer
Sitter in 1 portrait

Lord Alwyne Compton

1825-1906
Bishop of Ely
Sitter in 6 portraits

Sir William Congreve, 2nd Bt

1772-1828
Military inventor
Sitter in 4 portraits

Robert Conny

1645?-1713
Physician
Sitter in 1 portrait

Emma Cons

1838-1912
Social reformer and theatre manager
Sitter in 1 portrait

Hayne Constant

1904-1968
Chief scientist, Royal Air Force
Sitter associated with 3 portraits

(William) Martin Conway, 1st Baron Conway of Allington

1856-1937
Mountaineer and art historian
Sitter in 12 portraits

F. Cooke

Photographer
Artist of 1 portrait

Thomas Sidney Cooper

1803-1902
Animal painter
Sitter in 8 portraits

Wendy Cope

1945-
Teacher, writer and poet
Sitter in 1 portrait

John Copley

1875-1950
Printmaker; founder member of the Senefelder Club
Sitter in 1 portrait | Artist of 1 portrait

Alfred Edgar Coppard

1878-1957
Short story writer and poet
Sitter in 16 portraits

Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork

1566-1643
Irish statesman
Sitter associated with 2 portraits

Fiennes Stanley Wykeham Cornwallis, 1st Baron Cornwallis

1864-1935
Colonel; Chairman of Kent County Council
Sitter in 2 portraits

Wykeham Stanley, 2nd Baron Cornwallis

1892-1982
Director of Royal Insurance Co
Sitter in 12 portraits

Fiennes Cornwallis

1831-1867
Army officer; father of 1st Baron Cornwallis
Sitter in 1 portrait

Frederick Cornwallis

1713-1783
Archbishop of Canterbury
Sitter in 5 portraits

Arthur Foulkes Baglietto Cottrell

1891-1962
Brigadier; Councillor, East Ashford Rural District
Sitter in 6 portraits

Dame Kathleen D'Olier Courtney

1878-1974
Suffragist and peace campaigner and Joint President of United Nations Association
Sitter in 2 portraits

John Cowan

1929-1979
Photographer
Sitter in 2 portraits

Sir Noël Coward

1899-1973
Actor, playwright and composer
Sitter associated with 117 portraits

Henry Tracey Coxwell

1819-1900
Balloonist and meteorologist
Sitter in 2 portraits

Dame (Florence) Barbara Cozens

1906-1995
Nurse and nursing administrator
Sitter in 2 portraits

(Albert) Kenneth Cragg

1913-2012
Assistant Bishop of Jerusalem; Honorary Canon of Canterbury
Sitter in 1 portrait

Edith Ailsa Geraldine Craig

1869-1947
Actress, theatre director, producer and set and costume designer; daughter of Ellen Terry
Sitter in 4 portraits

Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 1st Earl of Cranbrook

1814-1906
Politician, Home Secretary and Secretary of State for War; ex-officio Trustee of the National Portrait Gallery
Sitter in 29 portraits

John David Gathorne-Hardy, 4th Earl of Cranbrook

1900-1978
Justice of the Peace
Sitter in 2 portraits

Fidelity (née Seebohm), Countess of Cranbrook

1912-2009
Second wife of 4th Earl of Cranbrook; daughter of Hugh Exton Sebohm
Sitter in 9 portraits

Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 5th Earl of Cranbrook

1933-
Chairman of the Institute for European Environmental Policy and author
Sitter in 2 portraits

Thomas Cranmer

1489-1556
Archbishop of Canterbury
Sitter in 47 portraits

Gibbs Craufurd (Crawfurd)

circa 1732-1793
Politician; MP for Queenborough
Sitter in 2 portraits

Aidan Merivale Crawley

1908-1993
Politician, editor and television executive
Sitter in 12 portraits

Thomas Crick

1885-1970
Royal Chaplain and Dean of Rochester
Sitter in 3 portraits

Martin Crimp

1956-
Playwright
Sitter in 1 portrait

Virginia Clementine Crompton (née Keyes)

1950-
Daughter of 2nd Baron Keyes
Sitter in 1 portrait

Mackenzie Crook

1971-
Actor and comedian
Sitter in 1 portrait

William Cuffay

1788-1870
London Chartist leader
Sitter in 1 portrait

Frederick George Rees Cuming

1930-2022
Artist; painter; teacher
Artist of 1 portrait

Charles Cunliffe-Owen

1863-1932
Brigadier-General
Sitter in 12 portraits

Richard Dadd

1817-1886
Painter
Sitter in 1 portrait | Artist of 1 portrait

Narbrough Hughes D'Aeth

1901-1981
Air Vice-Marshal
Sitter in 6 portraits

Wendy Dagworthy

1950-
Fashion designer and academic
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sir John Henry D'Albiac

1894-1963
Air Marshal
Sitter in 1 portrait

Anne Seymour Damer (née Conway)

1749-1828
Sculptor
Sitter in 10 portraits | Artist associated with 8 portraits

Hendrick Danckerts

circa 1625-1679
Painter, engraver
Artist of 1 portrait

John Bligh, 4th Earl of Darnley

1767-1831
Sitter in 5 portraits

Augusta (née Finch), Countess of Dartmouth

1822-1900
Wife of 5th Earl of Dartmouth; daughter of 5th Earl of Aylesford
Sitter in 1 portrait

William Heneage Legge, 6th Earl of Dartmouth

1851-1936
Politician; Vice-Chamberlain of the Household and landowner
Sitter in 10 portraits

Sonia d’Artois

1924-2014
Special Operations Executive agent; officer in the Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) and the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (FANY)
Sitter in 1 portrait

Charles Darwin

1809-1882
Naturalist, geologist and originator of the theory of evolution
Sitter in 35 portraits

Sir Francis Darwin

1848-1925
Botanist
Sitter in 5 portraits

Elizabeth David

1913-1992
Cookery writer
Sitter in 3 portraits

Randall Thomas Davidson, Baron Davidson of Lambeth

1848-1930
Archbishop of Canterbury
Sitter associated with 27 portraits

Sue Davies

1933-2020
Founder and director of the Photographers' Gallery
Sitter in 3 portraits

Sir Henry Joseph D'Avigdor-Goldsmid, 2nd Bt

1909-1976
Politician, army officer and company director
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sir Edmund Davis

1861-1939
Mining financier and art collector
Sitter in 3 portraits

Tacita Dean

1965-
Artist
Sitter in 1 portrait | Artist of 2 portraits

Deborah Bull

1963-
Ballet dancer, writer, broadcaster and former creative director of the Royal Opera House; life peer
Sitter in 2 portraits

William Francis Deedes, Baron Deedes

1913-2007
Newspaper editor and politician
Sitter in 4 portraits