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Dame Elsie Myrtle Abbot

1907-1983
Third Secretary, HM Treasury
Sitter in 1 portrait

Mordecai Abbot

1657-1700
Receiver General of the customs
Sitter in 1 portrait

David Abbott

1938-2014
Advertising agency director
Sitter in 1 portrait

Desmond Abel Smith

1892-1974
Major and director
Sitter in 5 portraits

Charles Melville McLaren, 3rd Baron Aberconway

1913-2003
Barrister and company director
Sitter in 19 portraits

George Gordon, 2nd Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair

1879-1965
Businessman and Justice of the Peace
Sitter in 10 portraits

John Henry Guy Nevill, 5th Marquess Abergavenny

1914-2000
Company director
Sitter in 1 portrait

Henry Nevill, 2nd Earl of Abergavenny

1755-1843
Secretary to the Treasury and politician; MP for Seaford and Monmouthshire
Sitter in 2 portraits

Charles Coupar Barrie, 1st Baron Abertay

1875-1940
Politician and businessman
Sitter associated with 2 portraits

James Scarlett, 1st Baron Abinger

1769-1844
Chief Baron of the Exchequer
Sitter associated with 39 portraits

Sir Lionel Abrahams

1869-1919
Financial secretary
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sir Martin Arnold Abrahamson

1870-1962
Director
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sir Keith Courtney Acutt

1909-1986
Businessman; Deputy Chair of Anglo-American
Sitter in 5 portraits

Donald George Acworth

1902-1971
Businessman
Sitter in 1 portrait

(David Stuart) Gordon Adam

1927-1995
Director of Barclay's Bank Ltd
Sitter in 1 portrait

(Harold) Richard Adams

1912-1978
Politician and management consultant
Sitter in 5 portraits

T.J.B. Adams

Chairman of Hope Brothers and Hector Power
Sitter in 2 portraits

Estelle Inez Ommanney Adamson

1910-1990
Director of Nursing, St Thomas' Hospital
Sitter in 1 portrait

James Wilfred Adamson

died 1970
Businessman, founder of the British Paints Organisation
Sitter in 1 portrait

John Adamson

1886-1969
Chartered accountant
Sitter in 1 portrait

John Gellibrand Hubbard, 1st Baron Addington

1805-1889
Politician, merchant and fiscal reformer; Director of Bank of England
Sitter in 4 portraits

Sir Charles Stewart Addis

1861-1945
Banker and government adviser; Director of the Bank of England
Sitter in 10 portraits

Christopher Addison, 2nd Viscount Addison

1904-1976
Director
Sitter in 4 portraits

Sir Robert Philip Wyndham Adeane

1905-1979
Businessman and art collector
Sitter in 9 portraits

(Arthur) Victor Adey

1912-1990
Businessman
Sitter in 1 portrait

Colin Agnew

1922-1975
Art dealer
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sir Geoffrey William Gerald Agnew

1908-1986
Art dealer
Sitter in 2 portraits

Hugh Agnew

1894-1975
Art dealer
Sitter in 1 portrait

(Charles) Morland Agnew

1855-1931
Art dealer
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sir William Agnew, 1st Bt

1825-1910
Art dealer
Sitter in 4 portraits

Shami Ahmed

1962-
Businessman
Sitter in 1 portrait

Peter Ahrends

1933-
Architect; co-founder of Ahrend, Burton and Koralek
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sir Alexander Aikman

1886-1968
Chartered accountant
Sitter in 5 portraits

Michael Sydney Cedric Brudenell-Bruce, 8th Marquess of Ailesbury

1926-
Landowner and Member of the London Stock Exchange
Sitter in 5 portraits

Sir John Stirling Ainsworth, 1st Bt

1844-1923
Industrialist, banker and Liberal politician; MP for Argyllshire
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sir (George) John Aird, 4th Bt

1940-
Businessman
Sitter in 2 portraits

Albert Ernest Kitson, 2nd Baron Airedale of Gledhow

1863-1944
Director of Midland Bank
Sitter in 1 portrait

David Lyulph Gore Wolseley Ogilvy, 12th Earl of Airlie

1893-1968
Lord Chamberlain; banker; soldier
Sitter in 13 portraits

Sir Owen Arthur Aisher

1900-1993
Businessman
Sitter in 1 portrait

John Aislabie

1670-1742
Whig politician; Chancellor of the Exchequer
Sitter associated with 1 portrait

Sir Arthur Percival Hay ('Peter') Aitken

1905-1984
Chairman of Norwich Union Insurance Group
Sitter associated with 2 portraits

Sir Max Aitken

1910-1985
Newspaper publisher; President of Express Newspapers; son of 1st Baron Beaverbrook
Sitter in 5 portraits

Jonathan William Patrick Aitken

1942-
Company director, politician and newspaper columnist and writer
Sitter in 2 portraits

Sir Wallace Alan Akers

1888-1954
Research Director of ICI
Sitter in 3 portraits

Sir Donald Arthur Rolleston Albery

1914-1988
Chairman and Managing Director, The Wyndham Theatres, Donmar Productions and Piccadilly Theatre Ltd; Director, Anglia Television
Sitter in 7 portraits

Ian Bronson Albery

1936-
Chief Executive of Sadler’s Wells, Peacock and Lilian Baylis Theatres
Sitter in 6 portraits

Henry Hucks Gibbs, 1st Baron Aldenham

1819-1907
Merchant and merchant banker; Director of Bank of England; Trustee of the National Portrait Gallery
Sitter in 4 portraits

Gerald Henry Beresford Gibbs, 3rd Baron Aldenham

1879-1939
Businessman
Sitter in 1 portrait

Daniel Alder

active 1823
Indigo broker
Sitter in 3 portraits

Sir Edward Hall Alderson

1787-1857
Baron of the Exchequer
Sitter in 2 portraits

John Norman Aldington

1905-1987
Chairman of Royal Worcester Ltd
Sitter in 1 portrait

Winthrop Williams Aldrich

1885-1974
Banker, lawyer and American ambassador in London
Sitter in 2 portraits

Albert E. Aldridge

Director, Ever Ready Trust Co. Ltd
Sitter in 1 portrait

Rod Aldridge

1947-
Executive Chairman, The Capita Group plc
Sitter in 1 portrait

Shane William Desmond Alexander, 2nd Earl Alexander of Tunis

1935-
Lieutenant and businessman
Sitter in 2 portraits

Robert Scott Alexander, Baron Alexander of Weedon

1936-2005
Barrister, banker and politician
Sitter in 8 portraits

Sir Frank Samuel Alexander, 1st Bt

1881-1959
Shipbroker and shipowner
Sitter in 13 portraits

George William Alexander

1802-1890
Financier and philanthropist; Treasurer of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society
Sitter in 4 portraits

Dame Helen Alexander

1957-2017
Chairman of UBM plc and President of CBI
Sitter in 1 portrait

Pat Alexander

Tavern keeper
Sitter in 1 portrait