Inventors

Sir Daniel Gooch, 1st Bt

1816-1889
Railway pioneer and inventor
Sitter in 5 portraits

George Edward Gouraud

1842-1912
Soldier and pioneer of recorded music
Sitter in 1 portrait

Henry Greathead

1757-1816
Lifeboat inventor
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sir Goldsworthy Gurney

1793-1875
Inventor
Sitter in 1 portrait

Stephen Hales

1677-1761
Natural philosopher, chemist and inventor
Sitter in 6 portraits

Joseph Aloysius Hansom

1803-1882
Architect and inventor of the safety cab
Sitter in 1 portrait

John Harmar

died 1798
Dissenting minister at Sheffield and inventor
Sitter in 1 portrait

Lewis Haslam

1856-1922
Politician; MP for Monmouth and Newport; inventor of Airtex
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sir Isaac Holden, 1st Bt

1807-1897
Inventor
Sitter in 1 portrait

Austin Hopkinson

1879-1962
Politician, industrialist and inventor
Sitter in 12 portraits

Sir James Horlick, 1st Bt

1844-1921
Co-inventor and manufacturer of Horlicks health drink
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sir James Nockells Horlick, 4th Bt

1886-1972
Lieutenant-Colonel, cricketer, politician, rhododendron breeder and co-inventor of Horlicks Malted Milk drink
Sitter in 1 portrait

Jonathan Hulls

circa 1699-1758
Projector of steam navigation
Sitter in 1 portrait

William Leonard Hunt

1838-1929
'The Great Farini'; tightrope walker, entertainment promoter and inventor
Sitter associated with 2 portraits

John Kay

1704-1780 or 1781
Inventor of textile manufacturing machinery
Sitter in 1 portrait

William Thomson, Baron Kelvin

1824-1907
Mathematician, physicist and inventor
Sitter in 30 portraits

Hedy Lamarr

1914-2000
Actress and inventor
Sitter in 1 portrait

Bertram Lambert

1881-1963
Fellow Emeritus of Merton College, Oxford; inventor of the Box Respirator
Sitter in 1 portrait

Evan Leigh

1810-1876
Inventor and writer
Sitter in 1 portrait

James Henry Lewis

1786-1853
Stenographer and inventor of short-hand
Sitter associated with 1 portrait

Sir Charles Henry Augustus Frederick Lockhart-Ross, 9th Bt

1872-1942
Landowner, army officer and entrepreneur; inventor of the 'Ross rifle'
Sitter in 1 portrait

Lionel Lockyer

1601-1672
Physician and inventor of 'Lockyer's Pill'
Sitter associated with 5 portraits

William Blaine Luard

1897-1979
Naval officer, author and inventor
Sitter in 11 portraits

John Loudon McAdam

1756-1836
Civil engineer; inventor of 'macadamisation' of roads
Sitter in 3 portraits

George William Manby

1765-1854
Inventor of apparatus for saving life from shipwreck
Sitter in 5 portraits

Guglielmo Marconi

1874-1937
Physicist and inventor of wireless transmission
Sitter in 29 portraits

William Martin

1772-1851
Inventor and eccentric
Sitter in 1 portrait

Samuel Cunliffe-Lister, 1st Baron Masham

1815-1906
Inventor of textile machinery
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim

1840-1916
Engineer and inventor
Sitter in 10 portraits

Andrew Meikle

1719-1811
Millwright; inventor of the thrashing-machine
Sitter in 1 portrait

Samuel Finley Breese Morse

1791-1872
Inventor and painter
Sitter in 1 portrait

Alexander Eric Moulton

1920-2012
Engineer and inventor
Sitter in 1 portrait

William Murdock

1754-1839
Inventor of gas lighting
Sitter in 5 portraits

John Somerset Murray

1904-1992
Photographer and inventor
Sitter in 1 portrait | Artist of 24 portraits

Alfred Bernhard Nobel

1833-1896
Swedish chemist, engineer and industrialist; inventor of dynamite and founder of the Nobel Prize
Sitter in 1 portrait

Louis Napoleon Parker

1852-1944
Musician, playwright and inventor
Sitter in 7 portraits

Edmund John Passingham

1841-1927
Photographer and photographic inventor
Artist associated with 4 portraits

Charles Willson Peale

1741-1827
Painter, engraver, sculptor, writer and inventor
Artist associated with 3 portraits

Richard Pering

1767-1838
Inventor
Sitter in 1 portrait

Jacob Perkins

1766-1849
Inventor
Sitter in 4 portraits