Playwrights and dramatists

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

John Baldwin Buckstone

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

Joseph William Comyns Carr

1849-1916
Critic and dramatist, gallery director and theatre manager
Sitter in 6 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 4 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

Warren Chetham-Strode

1896-1974
Author and playwright
Sitter in 2 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

George Colman the Younger

1762-1836
Dramatist
Sitter associated with 6 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

Hannah Cowley (née Parkhouse)

1743-1809
Dramatist
Sitter in 1 portrait

Joseph Stirling Coyne

1803-1868
Dramatist and journalist
Sitter in 2 portraits

Martin Crimp

1956-
Playwright
Sitter in 1 portrait

Richard Cumberland

1732-1811
Playwright
Sitter in 6 portraits

Sir William Davenant

1606-1668
Poet and dramatist
Sitter in 10 portraits

Harold Dearden

1883-1962
Doctor, psychologist, author and playwright
Sitter in 3 portraits

Françoise de Graffigny (née d'Issembourg Du Buisson d'Happoncourt)

1695-1758
Author and playwright
Sitter in 1 portrait

Anatole de Grunwald

1910-1967
Producer, screenwriter and playwright
Sitter in 2 portraits

John Dennis

1657-1734
Literary critic and dramatist
Sitter in 1 portrait

Philippe Néricault Destouches

1680-1754
Dramatist
Sitter in 1 portrait

Charles Dibdin

1745-1814
Songwriter and dramatist
Sitter in 4 portraits

Thomas John Dibdin

1771-1841
Actor, dramatist and illegitimate son of Charles Dibdin
Sitter in 1 portrait

Patric Thomas Dickinson

1914-1994
Poet, playwright and broadcaster
Sitter in 4 portraits

William Dimond

1780-1837
Dramatist
Sitter in 1 portrait

Robert Dodsley

1703-1764
Poet, dramatist and bookseller
Sitter in 1 portrait

Hon. William Douglas-Home

1912-1992
Playwright and writer; son of 13th Earl of Home
Sitter in 5 portraits

John Drinkwater

1882-1937
Poet and playwright
Sitter in 17 portraits

Ashley Dukes

1885-1959
Dramatist, critic and theatre manager
Sitter in 11 portraits

Ronald Duncan

1914-1982
Playwright and poet
Sitter in 10 portraits

Nell Dunn

1936-
Novelist and playwright; daughter of Sir Philip Gordon Dunn, 2nd Bt
Sitter in 4 portraits

Francis Henry Durbridge

1912-1998
Playwright and author
Sitter in 6 portraits

St John Greer Ervine

1883-1971
Playwright and writer
Sitter in 16 portraits

George Farquhar

1678-1707
Dramatist
Sitter in 3 portraits

John Fawcett

1768-1837
Actor and dramatist
Sitter associated with 11 portraits

Edward Fitzball

1792-1873
Dramatist and writer
Sitter in 1 portrait

Samuel Foote

baptised 1721-1777
Actor and dramatist
Sitter in 11 portraits

Philip Frowde

died 1738
Poet, dramatist and friend of Addison
Sitter in 4 portraits

Christopher Fry

1907-2005
Playwright
Sitter in 19 portraits

Val Henry Gielgud

1900-1981
Playwright
Sitter in 5 portraits

Robert William Victor Gittings

1911-1992
Poet, biographer and playwright
Sitter in 4 portraits

Dulcie Gray

1920-2011
Actress, playwright and writer
Sitter in 7 portraits

Walter Greenwood

1903-1974
Novelist and playwright
Sitter in 8 portraits

Elizabeth Griffith

1727-1793
Playwright and novelist
Sitter in 3 portraits

Francis Hackett

1883-1962
Playwright
Sitter in 9 portraits