Historians

Raphael Elkan Samuel

1934-1996
Historian
Sitter in 2 portraits

Sir Simon Schama

1945-
Historian
Sitter in 3 portraits

Hugh Joseph Schonfield

1901-1988
Biographer and historian
Sitter in 10 portraits

Samuel Seyer

1757-1831
Historian of Bristol
Sitter in 1 portrait

Stebbing Shaw

1762-1802
Historian of Staffordshire
Sitter in 2 portraits | Artist associated with 1 portrait

Jack Simmons

1915-2000
Historian and writer on railways
Sitter in 8 portraits

Arthur Lionel Smith

1850-1924
Historian and Master of Balliol College, Oxford
Sitter in 3 portraits

Goldwin Smith

1823-1910
Journalist and historian
Sitter in 6 portraits

Ruth Spalding

1913-2009
Historian
Sitter in 1 portrait

John Speed

1552?-1629
Historian and cartographer
Sitter associated with 9 portraits

Sir Henry Spelman

1564?-1641
Historian and philologist
Sitter associated with 13 portraits

Philip Stanhope, 5th Earl Stanhope

1805-1875
Historian; founding member and first chairman of the Trustees of the National Portrait Gallery and Conservative politician; MP for Hertford
Sitter in 23 portraits

David Starkey

1945-
Historian and broadcaster
Sitter in 1 portrait

Robert R. Steele

1860-1944
Medieval historian and writer
Sitter in 4 portraits

Sir James Stephen

1789-1859
Historian and colonial under-secretary
Sitter in 1 portrait

Joseph Stevenson

1806-1895
Historian and archivist
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sir William Stirling-Maxwell, 9th Bt

1818-1878
Historian, art connoisseur and collector; Trustee of the National Portrait Gallery
Sitter in 5 portraits

Lawrence Stone

1919-1999
Historian
Sitter in 1 portrait

Alice Stopford Green (née Alice Sophia Amelia Stopford)

1847-1929
Historian and Irish nationalist; wife of John Richard Green
Sitter in 1 portrait

Agnes Strickland

1796-1874
Historian
Sitter in 7 portraits

John Strype

1643-1737
Ecclesiastical historian and biographer
Sitter in 3 portraits

William Stubbs

1825-1901
Historian; Bishop of Chester and Oxford; Trustee of the National Portrait Gallery
Sitter in 5 portraits

Alan John Percivale Taylor

1906-1990
Historian and journalist
Sitter in 11 portraits

Frank Sherwood Taylor

1897-1956
Chemist and science historian and Director of Science Museum
Sitter in 11 portraits

John Alfred Terraine

1921-2003
Historian
Sitter in 1 portrait

Christopher Montague ('Monty') Woodhouse, 5th Baron Terrington

1917-2001
Army officer, historian and politician
Sitter in 9 portraits

Joan Thirsk

1922-2013
Historian
Sitter in 2 portraits

Sir Keith Vivian Thomas

1933-
Historian
Sitter in 2 portraits

Edward Palmer Thompson

1924-1993
Social historian
Sitter in 1 portrait

William Tooke

1744-1820
Historian of Russia
Sitter in 3 portraits

Arnold Joseph Toynbee

1889-1975
Historian and nephew of Arnold Toynbee
Sitter in 12 portraits

George Macaulay Trevelyan

1876-1962
Historian, public educator and conservationist; son of Sir George Otto Trevelyan
Sitter in 12 portraits

Sir George Otto Trevelyan, 2nd Bt

1838-1928
Historian and politician; Secretary of State for Scotland and MP
Sitter in 7 portraits

Sharon Turner

1768-1847
Historian
Sitter in 1 portrait

Patrick Fraser Tytler

1791-1849
Scottish historian
Sitter in 4 portraits

Amanda Vickery

1962-
Historian, writer and broadcaster
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sir Paul Gavrilovitch Vinogradoff (Pavel Gavriilovich Vinogradov)

1854-1925
Jurist and historian
Sitter in 3 portraits

Voltaire

1694-1778
Writer, satirist, philosopher and historian
Sitter in 6 portraits

Daniel Philip Waley

1921-2017
Professor of History at the London School of Economics and Keeper of Manuscripts at the British Musem and British Library
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sir Spencer Walpole

1839-1907
Historian and civil servant; son of Spencer Horatio Walpole
Sitter in 3 portraits