Playwrights and dramatists

Dion Boucicault

1820-1890
Actor and playwright; father of Darley George Boucicault (Dion Boucicault Jr)
Sitter in 8 portraits

Arthur Bourchier

1863-1927
Actor, theatre manager and dramatist
Sitter in 23 portraits

Howard Brenton

1942-
Playwright
Sitter in 1 portrait

James Bridie (Osborne Henry Mavor)

1888-1951
Playwright
Sitter in 3 portraits

Richard Brome

circa 1590-1652
Playwright
Sitter in 4 portraits

Charles Hallam Elton Brookfield

1857-1913
Actor and playwright
Sitter in 4 portraits

Charles William Shirley Brooks

1816-1874
Journalist and playwright
Sitter associated with 7 portraits

William Brough

1826-1870
Journalist and playwright
Sitter in 2 portraits

George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham

1628-1687
Statesman and dramatist
Sitter associated with 14 portraits

John Baldwin Buckstone

1802-1879
Actor, playwright and theatre manager
Sitter in 20 portraits

John Burgoyne

1722-1792
'Gentleman Johnny'; soldier and dramatist
Sitter in 8 portraits

Cerrie Burnell

1979-
Actress, singer, playwright, author and television presenter
Sitter in 1 portrait

John Byrne

1940-2023
Painter, designer and playwright
Sitter in 3 portraits

Joseph William Comyns Carr

1849-1916
Critic and dramatist, gallery director and theatre manager
Sitter in 6 portraits

Dame Barbara Hamilton Cartland

1901-2000
Novelist and playwright
Sitter in 15 portraits

Jim Cartwright

1958-
Playwright
Sitter in 2 portraits

William Cartwright

1611-1643
Divine and dramatist
Sitter in 4 portraits

William Cartwright

died 1687
Actor, poet and playwright
Sitter in 5 portraits

Joseph Arnold Cave

1823-1912
Actor, dramatist and theatre manager
Sitter in 1 portrait

Susanna Centlivre (née Freeman)

1669?-1723
Playwright and actress
Sitter in 3 portraits

Carmelo Cernigliari-Melilli

1870-1944
Writer, playwright, poet and sculptor
Artist of 1 portrait

Charlotte Charke (née Cibber)

1713-1760
Actress, playwright, novelist, autobiographer, and noted transvestite
Sitter in 4 portraits

Theophilus Charlton

active 1923
Playwright and actor
Sitter in 1 portrait

Pierre Claude Nivelle de la Chaussee

1692-1754
French dramatist
Sitter in 1 portrait

Andrew Cherry

1762-1812
Actor and playwright
Sitter in 1 portrait

Warren Chetham-Strode

1896-1974
Author and playwright
Sitter in 2 portraits

Caryl Churchill

1938-
Playwright
Sitter in 3 portraits

Colley Cibber

1671-1757
Dramatist and actor
Sitter in 9 portraits

Elizabeth Lydia Rosabelle (née Bonham), Lady Clifford (formerly Mrs Henry de la Pasture)

1866-1945
Novelist and dramatist; former wife of Henry Philip Duracel de la Pasture, and later wife of Sir Hugh Clifford
Sitter in 7 portraits

James Cobb

1756-1818
Playwright
Sitter in 7 portraits

Sir Aston Cockayne, Bt

1608-1684
Poet and playwright
Sitter in 1 portrait

Catharine Cockburn (Trotter)

1679-1749
Dramatist and philosophical writer
Sitter in 2 portraits

Jean Cocteau

1889-1963
Poet, playwright and film-director; Artist
Sitter in 11 portraits

George Colman the Elder

1732-1794
Playwright
Sitter associated with 10 portraits

George Colman the Younger

1762-1836
Dramatist
Sitter associated with 6 portraits

William Congreve

1670-1729
Dramatist
Sitter in 18 portraits

Vivian Connell

1903-1981
Writer and playwright
Sitter in 4 portraits

Pierre Corneille

1606-1684
French dramatist
Sitter in 1 portrait

George Frederick Myddleton Cornwallis-West

1874-1951
Army officer, landowner and playwright; former husband of Jennie Jerome (later Lady Randolph Churchill); later husband of Beatrice Stella Tanner (later Mrs Patrick Campbell)
Sitter in 5 portraits

Sir Noël Coward

1899-1973
Actor, playwright and composer
Sitter associated with 117 portraits