Scientists

John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury

1834-1913
Banker, scientist, writer and politician; MP for Maidstone and London University
Sitter in 24 portraits

Sir Joseph Banks, Bt

1743-1820
Explorer and botanist
Sitter associated with 35 portraits

John Desmond Bernal

1901-1971
Scientist
Sitter in 6 portraits

Robert Boyle

1627-1691
Chemist and natural philosopher
Sitter associated with 22 portraits

Sir Ernst Chain

1906-1979
Biochemist
Sitter in 8 portraits

John Dalton

1766-1844
Chemist and natural philosopher
Sitter in 15 portraits

Richard Dawkins

1941-
Zoologist
Sitter in 2 portraits

Sir Kenelm Digby

1603-1665
Naval commander, diplomat and scientist
Sitter in 24 portraits

Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac

1902-1984
Physicist
Sitter in 3 portraits

Gerald Durrell

1925-1995
Zoologist and writer
Sitter in 3 portraits

Sir Alexander Fleming

1881-1955
Bacteriologist and discoverer of penicillin
Sitter in 22 portraits

Rosalind Elsie Franklin

1920-1958
Crystallographer
Sitter in 3 portraits

Sir Francis Galton

1822-1911
Biostatistician, human geneticist and founder of the science of eugenics
Sitter in 15 portraits

Stephen Hawking

1942-2018
Theoretical Physicist
Sitter in 11 portraits

Dorothy Hodgkin

1910-1994
Chemist and crystallographer; winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry; wife of Thomas Lionel Hodgkin
Sitter in 17 portraits

Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker

1817-1911
Botanist
Sitter in 14 portraits

John Hunter

1728-1793
Surgeon and anatomist
Sitter in 13 portraits

William Hunter

1718-1783
Anatomist and physician; obstetrician and physician to Queen Charlotte
Sitter associated with 6 portraits

Carl Linnaeus

1707-1778
Botanist and taxonomist
Sitter in 3 portraits

James Ephraim Lovelock

1919-
Chemist and ecologist
Sitter in 3 portraits