Philanthropists

Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, 10th Bt

1787-1871
Philanthropist
Sitter in 6 portraits

Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, 11th Bt

1809-1898
Politician and educational reformer
Sitter in 6 portraits

Ralph Allen

1693-1764
Philanthropist; known as 'The Man of Bath'
Sitter associated with 5 portraits

William Allen

1770-1843
Chemist and philanthropist
Sitter in 9 portraits

(Ava) Alice (Muriel) Astor (later Obolensky, later von Hofmannsthal, later Pleydell-Bouverie)

1902-1956
Socialite and patron of the arts; daughter of John Jacob Astor IV; former wife of Prince Sergei Obolensky and of Raimund von Hofmannsthal, and later wife of David Pleydell-Bouverie
Sitter in 1 portrait

James Audus

1781-1867
Amateur architect and philanthropist
Sitter in 1 portrait

Bernard Mannes Baruch

1870-1965
Economist and philanthropist
Sitter in 1 portrait

Richard Benyon de Beauvoir

1770-1854
High Sheriff of Berkshire, benefactor and Conservative politician; MP for Pontefract and Wallingford
Sitter in 1 portrait

Henry Louis Bischoffsheim

1829-1908
Banker and philanthropist
Sitter in 1 portrait

Isabella Lucy Bird Bishop

1832-1904
Philanthropist, writer, traveller and photographer
Sitter in 2 portraits

Arthur Blayney

1715-1795
Philanthropist
Sitter in 1 portrait

Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon

1827-1891
Artist and women's rights activist; benefactor of Girton College, Cambridge
Sitter in 3 portraits

Sir Dhunjibhoy Bomanji

1862-1937
Merchant and philanthropist
Sitter in 5 portraits

Ann Dudin Brown

1822-1917
Benefactor
Sitter in 1 portrait

Angela Burdett-Coutts, Baroness Burdett-Coutts

1814-1906
Philanthropist; daughter of Sir Francis Burdett, Bt
Sitter in 19 portraits

Lady Victoria Buxton (née Noel)

1839-1916
Wife of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, 3rd Bt; daughter of 1st Earl of Gainsborough
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, 1st Bt

1786-1845
Philanthropist
Sitter in 13 portraits

Louis Cauvin

circa 1754-1825
French teacher and philanthropist
Sitter in 1 portrait

Caroline Chisholm (née Jones)

1808-1877
Philanthropist and founder of the 'Family Colonisation Loan Society'
Sitter in 3 portraits

Thomas Clarkson

1760-1846
Slavery abolitionist
Sitter in 11 portraits