Spies and secret agents

Sir Hardy Amies

1909-2003
Couturier; dressmaker for Queen Elizabeth II; Head of Special Operations Executive in Belgium during World War II
Sitter in 21 portraits

Thomas Miller Beach

1841-1894
Government spy, known as 'Major Le Caron'
Sitter in 5 portraits

Aphra Behn (née Johnson)

1640-1689
Dramatist, novelist and spy
Sitter associated with 4 portraits

Gertrude Bell

1868-1926
Traveller, spy and archaeologist
Sitter in 2 portraits

Anthony Blunt

1907-1983
Art historian and Soviet spy
Sitter in 7 portraits

Jonathan Britain

Forger and informer
Sitter in 2 portraits

Guy Burgess

1911-1963
Soviet spy
Sitter in 1 portrait

Peter Morland Churchill

1909-1972
Secret Agent and writer
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sir Claude Edward Marjoribanks Dansey

1876-1947
Lieutenant-Colonel and spy
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sir Paul Dukes

1889-1967
Intelligence officer and writer
Sitter in 15 portraits

George Edwards

1787-1843
Modeller and spy
Sitter in 1 portrait

Christine Granville (née Krystyna Skarbek)

1908-1952
Second World War Special Operations Executive agent; member of the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (FANY)
Sitter in 1 portrait

Elizabeth (née Lumley), Lady Grimthorpe

1925-2020
Special Operations Officer; Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother
Sitter in 3 portraits

Odette Marie Céline Hallowes (née Brailly)

1912-1995
Special Operations Executive agent; Vice-President of the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (FANY)
Sitter in 3 portraits

Noor Inayat Khan

1914-1944
Special Operations Executive agent, member of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) and First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (FANY)
Sitter in 2 portraits

Donald Maclean

1913-1983
Soviet spy
Sitter in 3 portraits

Somerset Maugham

1874-1965
Novelist, playwright and spy
Sitter associated with 115 portraits

John Mordaunt, 1st Viscount Mordaunt of Avalon

1626-1675
Royalist conspirator
Sitter in 7 portraits

Titus Oates

1649-1705
Informer
Sitter in 23 portraits

Alfred Oliver Pollard

1893-1960
Spy novelist and recipient of the Victoria Cross
Sitter in 3 portraits