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Abu Bakar, Sultan of Johore

1833-1895
Sultan of Johore
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sultan Abu Bakar of Pahang

1904-1974
Son of Sultan Abdullah Al-Mutassim Billah Shah
Sitter in 7 portraits

Peter Arne

1918-1983
Actor
Sitter in 2 portraits

Melbourne Goodson Bax

1927-1950
Captain
Sitter in 2 portraits

Simon Russell Beale

1961-
Actor
Sitter in 1 portrait

Jill Bennett

1931-1990
Actress; fourth wife of John Osborne
Sitter in 9 portraits

Sir Edward Lewis Brockman

1865-1943
Colonial administrator
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sir Charles Vyner de Windt Brooke

1874-1963
Third Raja of Sarawak
Sitter in 7 portraits

Sir James Brooke

1803-1868
Army officer and first Raja of Sarawak
Sitter in 7 portraits

Ivor Brown

1891-1974
Drama critic and writer
Sitter associated with 10 portraits

Hugh Montagu Butler

1890-1972
Headmaster of Governmental English School, Malaya
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sir Geoffrey Edmund Cator

1884-1973
Colonial administration service
Sitter in 3 portraits

Hilda Alice Channon (née Bond)

died 1979
Member of Commission on Higher Education in Malaya; wife of Harold John Channon
Sitter in 6 portraits

Barri Chatt

1907-1971
Dancer, comedian and drag artiste
Sitter in 2 portraits

Neville Henry Layard Chesshyre

died 1985
Brigadier
Sitter in 1 portrait

Jimmy Choo

1948-
Shoe designer
Sitter in 2 portraits

Lin Cook (née Chong)

1945-2016
Third wife of Peter Cook
Sitter in 1 portrait

Nigel Edmund Cornwall

1903-1984
Bishop of Borneo
Sitter in 7 portraits

Jenny Eclair

1962-
Comedian
Sitter in 2 portraits

Sandy Gall

1927-
Broadcaster and writer
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sir (Gerard) Edward James Gent

1895-1948
High Commissioner for the Federation of Malaya
Sitter in 3 portraits

Barbara Goalen (later Campbell)

1921-2002
Fashion model
Sitter in 8 portraits

Michael Gough

1917-2011
Actor
Sitter in 2 portraits

Dulcie Gray

1920-2011
Actress, playwright and writer
Sitter in 7 portraits

Thomas Griffin

circa 1692-1771
Admiral and Commander-in-Chief of the East Indies Station
Sitter in 1 portrait

Raja Chulan (Sir Chulan ibni Almarhum Sultan Abdullah Muhammad Shah Habibullah)

1869-1933
Member of the Perak royal family
Sitter in 5 portraits

John Herbert

1723-1799
Governor of Balambangan
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sultan Idris ibn Raja Iskandar

1849-1916
Sultan of Perak
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sir Arthur Selborne Jelf

1876-1947
Colonial administrator
Sitter in 1 portrait

Corporal Laxon

Dyak Head-hunter, member of the Borneo Native Police and servant of Captain Wardrop
Sitter in 5 portraits

William Light

1786-1839
Surveyor-General of South Australia
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sir Robert Hamilton Bruce Lockhart

1887-1970
Diplomat and writer
Sitter in 20 portraits

Malcolm John MacDonald

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

Francis Thomas McDougall

1817-1886
Bishop of Labuan and Sarawak
Sitter in 7 portraits

Sir Donald Charles MacGillivray

1906-1966
Colonial administrator
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sir John Stuart Macpherson

1898-1971
Colonial official and civil servant
Sitter in 6 portraits

Leslie Noel Malan

circa 1856-1951
Colonel and Chief Engineer, Malaya
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sir Hayes Marriott

1873-1929
Malayan civil service
Sitter in 6 portraits

Sir (William) George Maxwell

1871-1959
Colonial civil servant
Sitter in 2 portraits

Sir Edward Marsh Merewether

1858-1938
Civil servant and colonial administrator
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sir Muda Omar 'Ali Saifuddien Sa'adul Khairi Waddien, Sultan of Brunei

1914-1986
Sultan of Brunei
Sitter associated with 9 portraits

Sherard Osborn

1822-1875
Rear-Admiral and writer
Sitter in 4 portraits

Joy Lorraine Paxton-Harding Hunter (née Ferguson)

1915-1966
In World War II worked under the Official Secrets Act in Sri Lanka and Malaysia
Sitter associated with 1 portrait

Sir William Peel

1875-1945
Diplomat
Sitter in 2 portraits

Sir David Piper

1918-1990
Art historian; Director of the National Portrait Gallery
Sitter in 3 portraits

Carmichael Charles Peter ('Mike') Pocock

1920-1979
Chairman of Shell Transport and Trading Co
Sitter in 1 portrait

Frederic Hugh Pollard

1903-1955
Civil servant
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sir Thomas Stamford Bingley Raffles

1781-1826
Colonial governor and zoologist
Sitter in 4 portraits

Tunku Abdul Rahman

1903-1990
Prime Minister of Malaysia
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sir William Henry Rycroft

1861-1925
Major-General; Colonial Governor of British North Borneo
Sitter in 5 portraits

Alan Sillitoe

1928-2010
Novelist, screenwriter, poet and playwright
Sitter in 8 portraits

Joe Simpson

1960-
Mountaineer
Sitter in 1 portrait

Han Suyin (née Elizabeth Kuanghu Chow, later Comber)

1917-2012
Author and physician
Sitter in 11 portraits

Sir Frank (Athelstane) Swettenham

1850-1946
Colonial administrator
Sitter in 7 portraits

Sir (Thomas) Shenton Whitelegge Thomas

1879-1962
Colonial administrator
Sitter associated with 24 portraits

Peter Trevenen Thwaites

1926-1991
Brigadier
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sir Geofroy William Tory

1912-2012
Diplomat
Sitter in 2 portraits

Sir William Hood Treacher

1849-1919
Resident General of Federated Malay States
Sitter in 2 portraits

Robert Elliott ('Roy') Urquhart

1901-1988
Major General; General Officer Malaya
Sitter in 2 portraits

Alfred Russel Wallace

1823-1913
Naturalist, evolutionary theorist and social critic
Sitter in 20 portraits