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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

Diane Abbott

1953-
Labour politician; MP for Hackney North and Stoke Newington
Sitter in 5 portraits

Ibrahim Abboud

1900-1983
Sudanese army officer and politician
Sitter in 1 portrait

Jaurar Ben Abdallah

active mid 17th century
Lord Chamberlain, privy seal and Prime Minister to the Emperor of Morocco
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sir George Edmond Brackenbury Abell

1904-1989
First civil service commissioner
Sitter in 1 portrait

William Abell

1584-circa 1655
English vintner; Alderman of London
Sitter in 5 portraits

Sir Henry Abel Smith

1900-1993
Army officer and colonial administrator
Sitter in 7 portraits

Reginald Henry Macaulay Abel Smith

1890-1964
Captain and High Sheriff of Hertfordshire
Sitter in 1 portrait

Charles Benjamin Bright McLaren, 1st Baron Aberconway

1850-1934
Barrister, industrialist and politician
Sitter in 10 portraits

James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Abercorn

1811-1885
Landowner and politician; Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
Sitter in 13 portraits

James Hamilton, 2nd Duke of Abercorn

1838-1913
Diplomat and politician; MP for County Donegal
Sitter in 5 portraits

James Albert Edward Hamilton, 3rd Duke of Abercorn

1869-1953
Soldier and politician, Governor of Northern Ireland
Sitter in 14 portraits

James Edward Hamilton, 4th Duke of Abercorn

1904-1979
Army officer and Member of Government of Northern Ireland
Sitter in 8 portraits

Alexander Abercromby, Lord Abercromby

1745-1795
Lord Commissioner of Justiciary for Scotland
Sitter in 1 portrait

Henry Austin Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare

1815-1895
Politician, Home Secretary and Lord President of the Council; ex-officio Trustee of the National Portrait Gallery
Sitter in 12 portraits

Morys George Lyndhurst Bruce, 4th Baron Aberdare

1919-2005
Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords
Sitter in 1 portrait

George Hamilton Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen

1784-1860
Prime Minister
Sitter associated with 57 portraits

John Campbell Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair

1847-1934
Statesman
Sitter in 23 portraits

Ishbel Maria (née Marjoribanks), Marchioness of Aberdeen and Temair

1857-1939
Promoter and patron of social service enterprises
Sitter in 17 portraits

William Nevill, 1st Marquess of Abergavenny

1826-1915
Statesman
Sitter in 9 portraits

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

Montague Bertie, 6th Earl of Abingdon

1808-1884
Politician; MP for Oxfordshire
Sitter in 1 portrait

James Scarlett, 1st Baron Abinger

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

Sir John Bradley Abraham

1881-1945
Civil servant
Sitter in 6 portraits

William Abraham

1840-1915
Irish politician; MP for several constituencies
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sir Sidney Solomon Abrahams

1885-1957
Colonial judicial administrator and long jumper; Olympian
Sitter in 12 portraits

Sir George Stewart Abram

1866-1928
Physician; Mayor of Reading
Sitter in 4 portraits

Archibald Brabazon Sparrow Acheson, 4th Earl of Gosford

1841-1922
Vice-Chamberlain to Queen Alexandra
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sir James Glasgow Acheson

1889-1973
Colonial administrator
Sitter in 3 portraits

Dame (Dorothy) Elizabeth ('Betty') Ackroyd

1910-1987
Civil servant and consumer rights campaigner
Sitter in 6 portraits

Sir Cuthbert Lowell Ackroyd, 1st Bt

1892-1973
Lord Mayor of London
Sitter in 4 portraits

Sir Arthur Herbert Dyke Acland, 13th Bt

1847-1926
Politician and educational reformer
Sitter in 2 portraits

John Dyke Acland

1746-1778
Soldier and politician
Sitter in 2 portraits

Sir Richard Thomas Dyke Acland, 15th Bt

1906-1990
Politician; founding member of the British Common Wealth Party
Sitter in 12 portraits

Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, 11th Bt

1809-1898
Politician and educational reformer
Sitter in 6 portraits

Richard Maximilian Dalberg-Acton, 2nd Baron Acton

1870-1924
Diplomat
Sitter in 7 portraits

Sir John Francis Edward Acton, 6th Bt

1736-1811
Prime Minister of Naples
Sitter in 2 portraits

Arthur Robin Adair

1913-1981
Diplomat
Sitter in 1 portrait

James Adair

died 1798
Recorder of London, Chief Justice of Chester, politician and King's Sergeant
Sitter in 3 portraits

Sir Robert Adair

1763-1855
Diplomat
Sitter associated with 7 portraits

Sir Ronald Forbes Adam, 2nd Bt

1885-1982
Army officer; Director-General of the British Council and President of the United Nations Association
Sitter in 9 portraits

William Adam

1751-1839
Barrister, politician and judge
Sitter associated with 6 portraits

William Patrick Adam

1823-1881
Politician and administrator in India
Sitter in 5 portraits

Sir Arthur Robert Adams

1861-1937
Colonial administrator
Sitter in 3 portraits

Charles Francis Adams Sr

1807-1886
Lawyer, politician, diplomat and writer
Sitter in 3 portraits

Daniel Adams

Secretary, Society for Constitutional Information
Sitter in 1 portrait

David Morgan Adams

1875-1942
Politician and soldier
Sitter in 8 portraits

Edward Hamlyn Adams

1777-1842
Politician; MP for Carmarthenshire
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sir Ernest Charles Adams

1886-1974
Politician
Sitter in 7 portraits

Gerry Adams

1948-
Politician; President of Sinn Féin
Sitter in 1 portrait

John Adams

1735-1826
President of the United States; signatory of the Declaration of Independence
Sitter in 1 portrait

(Harold) Richard Adams

1912-1978
Politician and management consultant
Sitter in 5 portraits

Samuel Adams

1722-1803
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sir Theodore Samuel Adams

1885-1961
Colonial civil servant
Sitter in 3 portraits

(Samuel) Vyvyan Trerice Adams

1900-1951
Major and Politician
Sitter in 7 portraits

Sir Walter Adams

1906-1975
University administrator
Sitter in 6 portraits

William Adams

1772-1851
Lawyer and diplomatist
Sitter in 3 portraits

William George Stewart Adams

1874-1966
Political scientist and college head
Sitter in 1 portrait