Vendors, merchants and manufacturers

Sir John Barker

1840-1914
Department store owner
Sitter in 1 portrait

Rufus Barnes

Book dealer
Sitter in 3 portraits

Hamar Alfred Bass

1842-1898
Brewer, racehorse owner and Liberal politician; MP for Tamworth and Staffordshire West
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sir Percy Elly Bates, 4th Bt

1879-1946
Merchant and shipowner
Sitter in 3 portraits

Felice Beato

1832-1909
Photographer and merchant
Artist of 3 portraits

Maximilian Behrend

circa 1822-1890
Corn merchant
Sitter in 1 portrait

Alexander Bell

born circa 1800
Merchant
Sitter associated with 1 portrait

Robert William Murray Bell

born 1871
East India merchant
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sir Thomas Bell

1751-1824
Sheriff of the City of London, leather merchant and husband of Maria, Lady Bell (née Hamilton)
Sitter in 1 portrait

William Hallowes Belli

1789-1875
Civil servant and merchant
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sir Francis Flint Belsey

1837-1914
Justice of the Peace, corn merchant and social reformer
Sitter in 1 portrait

Paul Benfield

1741-1810
Indian trader and civil servant of the East India Company
Sitter associated with 1 portrait

(Edmund) Ernst Leopold Schlesinger Benzon

1819-1873
Manufacturer of paper goods
Sitter in 1 portrait

Samuel Sharp Steigen Berger

1850-1914
Rice-starch manufacturer; son of Henry Berger
Sitter in 1 portrait

George Berkeley, 1st Earl of Berkeley

1628-1698
Merchant; author and politician; MP for Gloucestershire
Sitter in 3 portraits

John Claude Bidgood

1914-2001
Politician, director of engineering companies and Middle East merchant
Sitter in 2 portraits

Samuel Birchall

1818-1864
Wool merchant
Sitter in 1 portrait

Robert Bird

Timber merchant
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sir Ralph Blackwell

active 1327-1377
Merchant Taylor
Sitter in 1 portrait

John Bolton

1756-1837
Liverpool merchant
Sitter in 1 portrait