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Jane Austen

1775-1817
Novelist
Sitter associated with 5 portraits

Ernest Bevin

1881-1951
General Secretary of the Transport and General Workers Union and politician; MP for Wandsworth Central and Woolwich East
Sitter associated with 59 portraits

Ian Botham

1955-
Cricketer
Sitter in 3 portraits

John Cleese

1939-
Comedian and actor
Sitter in 6 portraits

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

1772-1834
Poet
Sitter in 10 portraits

Richard Lovell Edgeworth

1744-1817
Writer and inventor
Sitter in 2 portraits

Thomas Gainsborough

1727-1788
Portrait and landscape painter
Sitter in 8 portraits | Artist associated with 262 portraits

Harold Gilman

1876-1919
Painter
Sitter in 1 portrait | Artist of 2 portraits

W.G. Grace

1848-1915
Cricketer and medical practitioner
Sitter in 8 portraits

Sir William Herschel

1738-1822
Astronomer
Sitter in 12 portraits

Sir Henry Irving

1838-1905
Actor-manager
Sitter in 119 portraits

Gertrude Jekyll

1843-1932
Horticulturalist and writer
Sitter in 1 portrait

John Locke

1632-1704
Philosopher
Sitter in 36 portraits

Sir Edwin Lutyens

1869-1944
Architect and President of the Royal Academy
Sitter associated with 28 portraits

Viv Richards

1952-
Cricketer
Sitter in 1 portrait

Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset

1506?-1552
Known as 'The Protector'; statesman
Sitter associated with 17 portraits