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King Alfred ('The Great')

849-899
King of the West Saxons
Sitter associated with 13 portraits

Anthony Asquith

1902-1968
Film director; youngest son of Herbert Henry Asquith, 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith
Sitter associated with 30 portraits

Sir John Betjeman

1906-1984
Poet Laureate, writer and broadcaster
Sitter in 41 portraits

Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson)

1832-1898
Photographer and author of 'Alice in Wonderland'
Sitter in 9 portraits | Artist associated with 62 portraits

Sir Ernst Chain

1906-1979
Biochemist
Sitter in 8 portraits

Sir William Chambers

1723-1796
Architect
Sitter in 16 portraits

Lord Randolph Henry Spencer Churchill

1849-1895
Politician; Secretary of State for India and MP for Woodstock and Paddington South
Sitter in 36 portraits

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill

1874-1965
Prime Minister
Sitter in 213 portraits

James Cook

1728-1779
Circumnavigator
Sitter associated with 15 portraits

Dame Gladys Cooper

1888-1971
Actress
Sitter in 167 portraits

(Clinton) Richard Dawkins

1941-
Zoologist
Sitter in 2 portraits

Cecil Day-Lewis

1904-1972
Poet Laureate
Sitter in 54 portraits

Jacqueline Mary du Pré

1945-1987
Cellist
Sitter in 16 portraits

King Edward

circa 1003-1066
Known as 'The Confessor', reigned 1043-66
Sitter in 8 portraits

Edward, Prince of Wales

1330-1376
Known as 'The Black Prince'; son of Edward III
Sitter in 13 portraits

Grinling Gibbons

1648-1721
Woodcarver and sculptor
Sitter in 10 portraits

Sir Giles Gilbert Scott

1880-1960
Architect; grandson of Sir George Gilbert Scott
Sitter in 19 portraits

Stephen William Hawking

1942-2018
Theoretical Physicist
Sitter in 11 portraits

Seamus Justin Heaney

1939-2013
Poet and Nobel Prize winner
Sitter in 24 portraits

King Henry VIII

1491-1547
Reigned 1509-47
Sitter associated with 98 portraits