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Sir William Arrol

1839-1913
Civil engineer and politician
Sitter in 2 portraits

Ian Hamilton Shearer, Lord Avonside

1914-1996
Lawyer and judge
Sitter in 1 portrait

Janet Sutherland (née Murray), Lady Avonside

1917-2008
Scottish Governor of the BBC; wife of Ian Shearer, Lord Avonside
Sitter in 9 portraits

Archibald Douglas-Campbell, 4th Baron Blythswood

1870-1929
Major, Scots Guards
Sitter in 6 portraits

Gordon Brown

1951-
Prime Minister
Sitter in 7 portraits

Bill Bryden

1942-2022
Theatre and film director and writer
Sitter in 1 portrait

John Byrne

1940-2023
Painter, designer and playwright
Sitter in 3 portraits

John Campbell of Blythswood

1756-1794
Lieutenant-Colonel
Sitter in 1 portrait

Gavin Carlyle

circa 1828-1919
Clergyman
Sitter in 1 portrait

James Hutchison Cockburn

1882-1973
Chaplain to King George VI
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sir William Robert Marshall Cockburn

1891-1957
Director of Chartered Bank
Sitter in 2 portraits

Tom Conti

1942-
Actor and director
Sitter in 3 portraits

John ('Fish') Craufurd

circa 1742-1814
Politician; MP for Old Sarum, Renfrewshire and Glasgow Burghs
Sitter in 1 portrait

Alison Cuninghame of Craigends (née Pearson)

1871-1959
Daughter of Alexander L. Pearson; wife of John Charles Cuninghame, 17th Laird of Craigends
Sitter in 4 portraits

George Cunninghame Monteath Douglas

1826-1904
Hebrew scholar
Sitter in 1 portrait

Douglas Eaglesham Dunn

1942-
Poet
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sir William Dunn, 1st Bt

1833-1912
Alderman, merchant, philanthropist and Liberal politician; MP for Paisley
Sitter in 8 portraits

John Fergus

1840-1908
Photographer
Artist associated with 8 portraits

Anya Gallaccio

1963-
Artist
Sitter in 1 portrait

William Gallacher

1881-1965
President of British Communist Party, trade unionist and politician; MP for West Fife
Sitter in 17 portraits

Alexander Gardner

1821-1882
Photographer
Artist associated with 2 portraits

Sir Hamilton Alexander Rosskeen Gibb

1895-1971
Arabic scholar
Sitter in 3 portraits

Sir John Hannah Gordon

1850-1923
Judge
Sitter in 2 portraits

Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham

1852-1936
Traveller, president of the Scottish Labour party and writer
Sitter associated with 10 portraits

James Hamilton

1814-1867
Presbyterian minister
Sitter in 3 portraits

John Henning

1771-1851
Sculptor
Sitter in 19 portraits | Artist of 7 portraits

George Houston

1810-1843
Politician; MP for Renfrewshire
Sitter in 1 portrait

John Robert Hume

1781 or 1782-1857
Physician
Sitter in 2 portraits

Sir William Stephen Alexander Lockhart

1841-1900
General
Sitter associated with 11 portraits

Ronald Buchanan McCallum

1898-1973
Historian and Master of Pembroke College, Oxford
Sitter in 1 portrait

Anna Anderson McCurley

1943-2022
Teacher and politician; MP for Renfrew West and Inverclyde
Sitter in 1 portrait

Fiona MacDonald

1974-
Curler; Olympian
Sitter in 1 portrait

Jock McFadyen

1950-
Artist
Sitter in 1 portrait

William Dalziel Mackenzie

1840-1928
Lieutenant-Colonel; Barrister
Sitter in 1 portrait

Hon. Alexander Munro MacRobert

1873-1930
Lord Advocate for Scotland, lawyer and politician; MP for East Renfrewshire
Sitter in 3 portraits

John Scott Maclay, 1st Viscount Muirshiel

1905-1992
Politician; Lord-Lieutenant of Renfrewshire
Sitter in 4 portraits

Andrew Neil

1949-
Publisher, editor, writer, broadcaster and media consultant
Sitter in 2 portraits

William Notman

1826-1891
Photographer
Artist associated with 31 portraits

Claud Hamilton, Baron Paisley

1543?-1622
Partisan of Mary Queen of Scots
Sitter in 2 portraits

Rankin

1966-
Photographer
Sitter in 1 portrait | Artist of 2 portraits

Colin Renfrew, Baron Renfrew of Kaimsthorn

1937-
Archaeologist
Sitter in 2 portraits

Sir Charles Bine Renshaw, 1st Bt

1848-1918
Politician and manufacturer
Sitter in 2 portraits

Robert II of Scotland

1316-1390
Reigned 1371-1390
Sitter associated with 1 portrait

William Sharp

1855-1905
'Fiona MacLeod', novelist and mystic
Sitter in 2 portraits

Sir Michael Shaw-Stewart, 6th Bt

1788-1836
Politician; MP for Lanarkshire and Renfrewshire
Sitter in 1 portrait

James Thomson (Thompson)

1834-1882
'B.V.'; poet and satirist
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sir Donald Mackenzie Wallace

1841-1919
Newspaper correspondent, editor and author
Sitter in 2 portraits

Sir William Wallace

1272?-1305
Scottish patriot and hero of romance
Sitter in 8 portraits

James Watt

1736-1819
Engineer
Sitter in 17 portraits

Sir John Weir

1879-1971
Physician
Sitter in 6 portraits

Helen Marion Mann Whigham (née Hannay)

circa 1884-1954
Wife of George Hay Whigham
Sitter associated with 1 portrait

John Wilson

1785-1854
Essayist and journalist; used the pseudonym 'Christopher North'
Sitter in 7 portraits

Sir Francis Reginald Wingate, 1st Bt

1861-1953
General; administrator in Egypt and the Sudan
Sitter in 11 portraits

Norman Russell Wylie, Lord Wylie

1923-2005
Senator of the College of Justice in Scotland and politician
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sir Eric Grant Yarrow, 3rd Bt

1920-2018
Chairman of Yarrow & Co Ltd
Sitter in 9 portraits