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Sir Kingsley William Amis

1922-1995
Novelist
Sitter in 31 portraits

Charles Babbage

1791-1871
Mathematician and computer pioneer
Sitter in 5 portraits

(Arthur) Clive Heward Bell

1881-1964
Art critic
Sitter in 29 portraits

Rupert Brooke

1887-1915
Poet
Sitter in 20 portraits

Thomas Clarkson

1760-1846
Slavery abolitionist
Sitter in 11 portraits

Oliver Cromwell

1599-1658
Lord Protector of England
Sitter associated with 224 portraits

Henry Fawcett

1833-1884
Politician, political economist and academic
Sitter in 24 portraits

Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett (née Garrett)

1847-1929
Leader of the constitutional women's suffrage movement and author
Sitter in 14 portraits

Edward Morgan ('E.M.') Forster

1879-1970
Novelist
Sitter in 44 portraits

Henri Gaudier-Brzeska

1891-1915
Sculptor and draughtsman
Sitter in 1 portrait | Artist of 2 portraits

William Godwin

1756-1836
Philosopher and novelist
Sitter in 13 portraits

Stephen William Hawking

1942-2018
Theoretical Physicist
Sitter in 11 portraits

King Henry VI

1421-1471
Reigned 1422-61 and 1470-71
Sitter associated with 39 portraits

Octavia Hill

1838-1912
Social reformer
Sitter in 2 portraits

Alfred Edward ('A.E') Housman

1859-1936
Poet and classical scholar
Sitter in 4 portraits

Katherine of Aragon

1485-1536
First Queen of Henry VIII
Sitter associated with 16 portraits

John Maynard Keynes, Baron Keynes

1883-1946
Economist
Sitter in 26 portraits

Clive Staples ('C.S.') Lewis

1898-1963
Author
Sitter in 5 portraits

Alice Pleasance Liddell

1852-1934
Inspiration for 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'; daughter of Henry George Liddell
Sitter in 16 portraits

Sir John Major

1943-
Prime Minister
Sitter in 13 portraits