Playwrights and dramatists

Peter Ustinov

1921-2004
Actor, dramatist and film director
Sitter associated with 30 portraits

Horace Annesley Vachell

1861-1955
Novelist and playwright
Sitter in 3 portraits

Sir John Vanbrugh

1664-1726
Architect and dramatist
Sitter in 11 portraits

Derek Walcott

1930-2017
St Lucian poet, playwright and theatre director
Sitter in 3 portraits

(Richard Horatio) Edgar Wallace

1875-1932
Novelist, playwright and journalist
Sitter in 14 portraits

Keith Spencer Waterhouse

1929-2009
Novelist, playwright and screenwriter
Sitter in 6 portraits

Colin Welland

1934-2015
Actor, writer and playwright
Sitter in 2 portraits

Irvine Welsh

1961-
Author, playwright and actor
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sir Arnold Wesker

1932-2016
Playwright
Sitter in 15 portraits

Richard West

circa 1691-1726
Lawyer, politician and playwright
Sitter in 1 portrait

Ted Whitehead

1933-2023
Playwright and screenwriter
Sitter in 1 portrait

John Whiting

1917-1963
Dramatist
Sitter in 1 portrait

Horace Wigan

1815 or 1816-1885
Actor and playwright; brother of Alfred Sydney Wigan
Sitter associated with 5 portraits

Oscar Wilde

1854-1900
Wit and dramatist
Sitter associated with 16 portraits

Edward Henry ('Ted') Willis, Baron Willis

1918-1992
Playwright and author
Sitter in 4 portraits

Freeman Crofts Wills

circa 1840-1913
Vicar of St Agatha, Finsbury; author, playwright and soldier
Sitter in 4 portraits

Sandy Wilson

1924-2014
Composer, lyric writer and playwright
Sitter in 1 portrait

Lechmere Worrall

born 1875
Dramatist
Sitter in 1 portrait

William Wycherley

1640-1716
Dramatist
Sitter in 11 portraits

W.B. Yeats

1865-1939
Poet and dramatist; son of John Butler Yeats
Sitter in 59 portraits