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Sir Robert Adair

1763-1855
Diplomat
Sitter associated with 7 portraits

Gilbert Adams

1906-1996
Photographer and artist
Sitter associated with 11 portraits | Artist associated with 33 portraits

John Couch Adams

1819-1892
Astronomer and mathematician
Sitter in 3 portraits

Marcus Adams

1875-1959
Photographer
Sitter in 33 portraits | Artist associated with 154 portraits

Sir Maurice Henry Adams

1908-1992
Surgeon Major and Rear-Admiral
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sir Peter Garnett Agnew, 1st Bt

1900-1990
Naval officer and Conservative politician; MP for Camborne and South Worcestershire
Sitter in 3 portraits

Herbert Stanley Allen

1873-1954
Professor of Natural Philosophy
Sitter in 1 portrait

Ralph Allen

1693-1764
Philanthropist; known as 'The Man of Bath'
Sitter associated with 5 portraits

John Angerstein

1773-1858
Politician; MP for Camelford and Greenwich; son of John Julius Angerstein
Sitter in 2 portraits

Sir (Arthur) Stanley Angwin

1883-1959
Engineer
Sitter in 7 portraits

John Anstis

1669-1744
Garter king-of-arms and heraldic writer
Sitter in 1 portrait

Charles George Perceval, 2nd Baron Arden

1756-1840
Lord of the Admiralty, Lord Lieutenant of Surrey and Conservative politician; MP for Launceston and Totnes
Sitter associated with 5 portraits

Frederick Argall

1847-1900
Photographer
Artist of 2 portraits

Francis Vyvyan Jago Arundell

1780-1846
Traveller and antiquary
Sitter in 1 portrait

Beatrix Emily Bassett (née Organ), Lady Arwyn

1914-2008
Office clerk; second wife of Baron Arwyn; daughter of Captain F.H. Organ
Sitter in 3 portraits

Alexander Francis St Vincent Baring, 6th Baron Ashburton

1898-1991
Receiver-General to the Duchy of Cornwall
Sitter in 12 portraits

Frederick Colvin George Eden, 6th Baron Auckland

1895-1941
Associate of the Institution of Naval Architects; pilot and wartime flying instructor; assistant to the Air Attaché, Paris
Sitter in 1 portrait

Gillian Ayres

1930-2018
Painter, mural artist and teacher
Sitter in 5 portraits

Morwenna Banks

1961-
Actress, comedian, writer and producer
Sitter in 1 portrait

Charles Foster Barham

1804-1884
Physician
Sitter in 1 portrait

Wilhelmina Barns-Graham

1912-2004
Painter; founder member of the Penwith Society of Artists
Sitter in 1 portrait

William Barrell

died 1749
Lieutenant-general and Governor of Pendennis Castle
Sitter in 1 portrait

Robert McGowan Barrington-Ward

1891-1948
Journalist; editor of The Times and army officer, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
Sitter in 7 portraits

(Henry) Charlton Bastian

1837-1915
Physician and neurologist
Sitter in 1 portrait

Daphne Fielding

1904-1997
Author; former wife of 6th Marquess of Bath, and later wife of Alexander Fielding; daughter of 4th Baron Vivian
Sitter associated with 14 portraits

John Grenville, 1st Earl of Bath

1628-1701
Nobleman
Sitter in 1 portrait

Doris Batty

Headmistress of St.Margaret's School, Hastings; Vice-Chairman of Independent Schools Association
Sitter in 2 portraits

William Beale

1784-1854
Musician
Sitter in 1 portrait

John Thomas Bellows

1831-1902
Printer, lexicographer and archaeologist
Sitter in 1 portrait

John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton

1602-1678
Royalist soldier
Sitter in 1 portrait

William Ponsonby, 2nd Earl of Bessborough

1704-1793
Politician and public servant
Sitter in 3 portraits

Louisa Susan Cornwallis (née Eliot), Countess of Bessborough

1825-1911
Wife of 7th Earl of Bessborough; daughter of 3rd Earl of St Germans
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sir John George Bice

1853-1923
Politician and blacksmith
Sitter in 2 portraits

Leonard Elliott Binns

1885-1963
Canon and Treasurer of Truro Cathedral
Sitter in 1 portrait

Samuel John ('Lamorna') Birch

1869-1955
Artist
Sitter in 5 portraits

Henry Bishop

1868-1939
Artist
Artist of 2 portraits

William Bligh

1754-1817
Admiral and explorer; captain of the Bounty
Sitter in 5 portraits

Sandra Blow

1925-2006
Painter and sculptor
Sitter in 11 portraits

Sir Edward Hoblyn Warren Bolitho

1882-1969
Lieutenant-Colonel, Lord Lieutenant and Chairman of Cornwall County Council
Sitter in 1 portrait

Thomas Bedford Bolitho

1835-1915
Politician, banker and smelter
Sitter in 1 portrait

Thomas Simon Bolitho

1808-1887
Mayor, banker and tin smelter
Sitter in 1 portrait

Henry Bone

1755-1834
Enamel painter
Sitter in 6 portraits | Artist associated with 677 portraits

Sir John Borlase

1576-1648
General of the Ordnance and Governor of Ireland
Sitter in 1 portrait

Edward Boscawen

1711-1761
Admiral
Sitter in 9 portraits

Robert Thomas Boscawen

1923-2013
Soldier and politician
Sitter in 1 portrait

Rutland Boughton

1878-1960
Composer
Sitter in 6 portraits

Sir William Bowles

1780-1869
Admiral and politician
Sitter in 1 portrait

Alan Tindal Lennox-Boyd, 1st Viscount Boyd of Merton

1904-1983
Politician, Secretary of State for the Colonies
Sitter in 28 portraits

Frank Bramley

1857-1915
Post-impressionist genre painter
Artist of 1 portrait

Richard Griffin (né Aldworth Neville), 2nd Baron Braybrooke

1750-1825
Politician; MP for Grampound and Buckingham
Sitter in 2 portraits

Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux

1778-1868
Lord Chancellor
Sitter associated with 280 portraits

Edward Brydges-Willyams

1834-1916
High Sheriff of Cornwall and Liberal politician; MP for Truro and East Cornwall
Sitter in 1 portrait

James Silk Buckingham

1786-1855
Writer and traveller
Sitter in 4 portraits

Sir Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis Budge

1857-1934
Orientalist; keeper of the Egyptian and Assyrian antiquities at British Museum
Sitter in 4 portraits

Hugo Massac Buist

1878-1966
Aviation and motoring pioneer and publicist
Sitter in 1 portrait

James Buller

1766-1827
Politician; MP for Exeter and West Looe
Sitter in 1 portrait

Nevill Northey Burnard

1818-1878
Sculptor
Artist of 1 portrait

Sir Edward Burne-Jones

1833-1898
Painter and designer
Sitter in 24 portraits | Artist associated with 1 portrait

Margaretta Higford Burr (Anne Margaretta Burr, née Scobell)

1817-1892
Watercolour painter; wife of Daniel Higford Davall Burr; daughter of Edward Scobell
Sitter in 1 portrait

Mary Callinack (Kelynack)

1766-after 1851
Fisherwoman
Sitter in 2 portraits