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Alexander Adam

1741-1809
Rector of High School in Edinburgh; writer
Sitter in 1 portrait

John George Clark Anderson

1870-1952
Camden Professor of Ancient History, University of Oxford and Brasenose College Fellow
Sitter in 3 portraits

Georgiana Russell (née Gordon), Duchess of Bedford

1781-1853
Second wife of 6th Duke of Bedford
Sitter associated with 9 portraits

Sir George Brown

1790-1865
General
Sitter in 4 portraits

Edward Bruce, 1st Baron Bruce of Kinloss

1549?-1611
Judge
Sitter in 2 portraits

Sir Robert Calder

1744 or 1745-1818
Admiral
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sir William Moir Calder

1881-1960
Professor of Greek
Sitter in 2 portraits

Gordon Thomas Calthrop Campbell, Baron Campbell of Croy

1921-2005
Politician; Secretary of State for Scotland
Sitter in 2 portraits

Sir James Cantlie

1851-1926
Consulting surgeon
Sitter in 6 portraits

Helen Cattanach

1920-1994
Brigadier; Director of Army Nursing Services
Sitter in 7 portraits

George Chalmers

1742-1825
Scottish antiquary
Sitter in 2 portraits | Artist associated with 1 portrait

Sir James Clark, 1st Bt

1788-1870
Physician
Sitter associated with 3 portraits

Laura Cowie

1892-1969
Actress
Sitter in 9 portraits

Roualeyn George Gordon Cumming

1820-1866
African lion-hunter
Sitter associated with 1 portrait

Sir Charles Gordon Cumming Dunbar, 8th Bt

1844-1916
Clergyman
Sitter in 1 portrait

Duncan Dunbar

1804-1862
Shipowner and merchant
Sitter in 3 portraits

Edward Dunbar-Dunbar (né Dunbar)

1818-1898
Captain and writer; Justice of the Peace for Elgin and Deputy Lieutenant of Elgin
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sir James Alexander MacKenzie Elder

1869-1946
Director of the National Bank of Australia
Sitter in 1 portrait

Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin

1766-1841
Major-General; brought the 'Elgin' marbles to England
Sitter in 1 portrait

Constance Mary Bruce (née Carnegie), Countess of Elgin

1851-1909
Wife of 9th Earl of Elgin; daughter of 9th Earl of Southesk
Sitter in 1 portrait

Edward James Bruce, 10th Earl of Elgin and 14th Earl of Kincardine

1881-1968
Army and air force officer, public servant and businessman
Sitter in 12 portraits

Thomas Bruce, 1st Earl of Elgin, 3rd Lord Bruce of Kinloss

1600-1663
Sitter in 2 portraits

Margaret Anne Ewing

1945-2006
Politician; MP for East Dunbartonshire and Moray
Sitter in 1 portrait

Hugh Falconer

1808-1865
Palaeontologist and naturalist
Sitter in 1 portrait

James Ferguson

1710-1776
Astronomer, instrument maker and scientific lecturer; miniature painter
Sitter in 3 portraits

Alexander Gordon, 4th Duke of Gordon

1743-1827
Representative peer
Sitter in 3 portraits

Jane Gordon (née Maxwell), Duchess of Gordon

1748 or 1749-1812
Political hostess and agricultural reformer
Sitter in 8 portraits

George Gordon, 5th Duke of Gordon

1770-1836
Raised the Gordon Highlanders
Sitter in 3 portraits

Elizabeth Gordon (née Brodie), Duchess of Gordon

1794-1864
Evangelical patron, wife of George Gordon, 5th Duke of Gordon
Sitter in 2 portraits

Constance Frederica Gordon-Cumming

1837-1924
Travel writer
Sitter in 1 portrait

Lady Lucy Grant (née Bruce)

1806-1881
Second wife of John Grant; daughter of 7th Earl of Elgin and 11th Earl of Kincardine
Sitter in 1 portrait

Colquhoun Grant

1780-1829
Lieutenant-Colonel
Sitter in 1 portrait

James Grant

1720-1806
General
Sitter in 2 portraits

Sir James Grant

1738-1811
Colonel and Lord-Lieutenant of Inverness
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sir James Robert Grant

1773-1864
Army medical inspector
Sitter in 2 portraits

Sir William Grant

1752-1832
Master of the Rolls
Sitter in 7 portraits

Kurt Hahn (Matthias Robert Martin)

1886-1974
Founder of Gordonstoun School and co-founder of Outward Bound Sea School
Sitter in 4 portraits

Shirley Henderson

1966-
Actress
Sitter in 2 portraits

Sir Derek Percy Hilton

1908-1986
Solicitor and building society director
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sir Henry Walter Houldsworth

1896-1963
Brigadier and Lord Lieutenant of Moray
Sitter in 1 portrait

Roberto Inglez (Bob Inglis)

1913-1977
Bandleader and pianist
Sitter in 4 portraits

Sir George Macdonald

1862-1940
Numismatist, classical scholar, archaeologist and civil servant
Sitter in 2 portraits

Ishbel MacDonald

1903-1982
Political hostess and local politician; daughter of (James) Ramsay MacDonald
Sitter in 7 portraits

Malcolm John MacDonald

1901-1981
Labour politician and diplomat; son of James Ramsay MacDonald
Sitter in 18 portraits

Ramsay MacDonald

1866-1937
Prime Minister
Sitter associated with 72 portraits

Sir Ashley Watson Mackintosh

1868-1937
Physician
Sitter in 1 portrait

George Maitland

active 1825
Publisher
Artist associated with 1 portrait

Susan Montagu (née Gordon), Duchess of Manchester

1774-1828
Wife of Wiliam Montagu, 5th Duke of Manchester, daughter of 4th Duke of Gordon
Sitter in 1 portrait

James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray

1531 or 1532-1570
Regent of Scotland
Sitter in 2 portraits

Alexander Stewart, 5th Earl of Moray

1634-1701
Politician; Lord High Commissioner and Secretary of State Scotland
Sitter in 2 portraits

Edmund Archibald Stewart, 15th Earl of Moray

1840-1901
Landed nobleman
Sitter in 2 portraits

Hon. Robert William Morgan-Grenville

1892-1988
Captain; Justice of the Peace; son of 8th Baroness Kinloss
Sitter in 1 portrait

James Naughtie

1951-
Journalist and broadcaster
Sitter in 1 portrait

John Ogilvie

1578 or 1579-1615
Jesuit and saint; canonised 1976
Sitter in 1 portrait

John Ogilvie

1732-1813
Divine, poet and writer
Sitter in 1 portrait

Edmund Phipps

1760-1837
General; son of 1st Baron Mulgrave
Sitter in 6 portraits

Mary (née Leslie), Countess of Portmore

1753-1799
Wife of 3rd Earl of Portmore
Sitter in 1 portrait

Charles Lennox, 4th Duke of Richmond and Lennox

1764-1819
Soldier and Governor-General of British North America
Sitter in 7 portraits

Charlotte Lennox (née Gordon), Duchess of Richmond and Lennox

1768-1842
Wife of 4th Duke of Richmond and Lennox; eldest daughter of 4th Duke of Gordon
Sitter in 2 portraits

Harry Robertson

1932-1996
Musician, music director and composer
Sitter in 1 portrait