Historians

Peggy Hickman

Historian of silhouettes
Sitter in 1 portrait

(John Edward) Christopher Hill

1912-2003
Historian
Sitter in 1 portrait

Rodney Howard Hilton

1916-2002
Historian
Sitter in 1 portrait

Shere Hite

1942-2020
Cultural historian, feminist, relationship therapist, author
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sir Richard Colt Hoare, 2nd Bt

1758-1838
Landowner and antiquary
Sitter in 3 portraits | Artist associated with 1 portrait

Penelope Hobhouse

1929-
Garden designer, writer and historian of gardens
Sitter in 1 portrait

Eric John Ernest Hobsbawm

1917-2012
Historian
Sitter in 3 portraits

Sir William Searle Holdsworth

1871-1944
Legal historian
Sitter in 10 portraits

Nathaniel Hooke

died 1763
Historian and writer
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sir Brian Gwynne Horrocks

1895-1985
Army officer and military historian
Sitter in 11 portraits

Sir Michael Eliot Howard

1922-2019
Military historian and lecturer; Coldstream Guards officer
Sitter in 2 portraits

Sir Henry Hoyle Howorth

1842-1923
Historian, archaeologist, barrister and Conservative politician; MP for Salford South
Sitter in 5 portraits

David Hume

1711-1776
Philosopher and historian
Sitter in 6 portraits

John Hutchins

1698-1773
Historian of Dorset
Sitter in 1 portrait

Henry Doveton Hutchinson

1847-1924
Lieutenant-General and military historian
Sitter in 2 portraits

William Hutton

1723-1815
Topographer and local historian
Sitter in 1 portrait

Giles Stephen Holland Fox-Strangways, 6th Earl of Ilchester

1874-1959
Landowner and historian
Sitter in 7 portraits

Victor Israelyan

1919-2005
Physician; writer; diplomat and historian
Sitter in 2 portraits

Emily Nevill Jackson (née Gatliff)

1861-1947
Journalist and historian of silhouettes
Sitter in 2 portraits

C.L.R. James

1901-1989
Historian and writer
Sitter in 2 portraits

Ian Jeffrey

Art historian, writer and curator
Sitter in 1 portrait

Charles Alexander Jencks

1939-2019
Architectural historian, writer and lecturer; garden designer; co-founder of the Maggie's Centres
Sitter in 3 portraits

Edward Jesse

1780-1868
Natural historian
Sitter in 2 portraits

Edward Alfred Jones

1872-1943
Historian, antiquarian and writer
Sitter in 1 portrait

White Kennett

1660-1728
Bishop of Peterborough and historian
Sitter in 2 portraits

Robert Wyndham Ketton-Cremer

1906-1969
Biographer and county historian
Sitter in 2 portraits

Alexander William Kinglake

1809-1891
Historian and travel writer
Sitter in 8 portraits

Charles Lethbridge Kingsford

1862-1926
Historian and topographer
Sitter in 3 portraits

John Patrick Douglas Balfour, 3rd Baron Kinross

1904-1976
Historian, biographer and journalist
Sitter in 8 portraits

John Knox

circa 1514-1572
Scottish reformer and historian
Sitter associated with 35 portraits

John Kobal

1940-1991
Film historian, writer and photograph collector
Sitter in 3 portraits

Robert George Dalrymple Laffan

1887-1972
Lecturer in History, University of Cambridge and Life Fellow of Queens' College
Sitter in 1 portrait

William Lambarde

1536-1601
Historian and lawyer
Sitter in 8 portraits

Robin Lane Fox

1946-
Writer and historian of gardens
Sitter in 1 portrait

Edwin Lankester

1814-1874
Public health reformer and natural historian
Sitter in 6 portraits

(William) Edward Hartpole Lecky

1838-1903
Irish historian, essayist and politician; Trustee of the National Portrait Gallery
Sitter in 20 portraits

Gordon Leff

1926-2020
Writer and lecturer on medieval history
Sitter in 1 portrait

Thomas Leland

1722-1785
Irish historian
Sitter in 2 portraits

Ada Elizabeth Levett

1881-1932
Historian, writer and lecturer, St Hilda's Hall, Oxford
Sitter in 1 portrait

Karl Joseph Leyser

1920-1992
Historian
Sitter in 1 portrait