Poets

Sir (John) William Watson

1858-1935
Poet
Sitter in 9 portraits

Alaric Alexander Watts

1797-1864
Poet and journalist
Sitter in 2 portraits

Theodore Watts-Dunton

1832-1914
Critic, novelist and poet
Sitter in 3 portraits

Edwin Waugh

1817-1890
Poet
Sitter in 1 portrait

Augusta Webster (née Davies)

1837-1894
Poet
Sitter in 1 portrait

Georg Rudolph Weckherlin

1584-1653
Government official and poet
Sitter in 3 portraits

John Weever

1576-1632
Poet and antiquary
Sitter in 5 portraits

Dorothy Violet Wellesley (née Ashton), Duchess of Wellington

1889-1956
Author, poet and editor; wife of 7th Duke of Wellington
Sitter in 4 portraits

Samuel Wesley the Elder

1662-1735
Divine and poet
Sitter in 3 portraits

Thomas Sedgwick Whalley

1746-1828
Poet and traveller
Sitter in 1 portrait

Anne Wharton (née Lee)

1659-1685
Poet
Sitter in 4 portraits

Sir George Wharton, 1st Bt

1617-1681
Royalist soldier, astrologer and poet
Sitter associated with 18 portraits

Herb Wharton

1936-
Writer and poet
Sitter in 1 portrait

Henry Kirke White

1785-1806
Poet
Sitter in 4 portraits

William Whitehead

1715-1785
Poet Laureate
Sitter in 2 portraits

Walt Whitman

1819-1892
Poet, essayist and journalist
Sitter in 6 portraits

George John Whyte-Melville

1821-1878
Novelist and poet
Sitter in 5 portraits

Christoph Martin Wieland

1773-1813
German poet
Sitter in 1 portrait

Jeremiah Holmes Wiffen

1792-1836
Poet; translator of Tasso
Sitter in 2 portraits

Richard Henry Wilde

1789-1847
Attorney-General, poet and biographer
Sitter in 1 portrait

Wilhelm, Archduke of Austria

1895-1948
Austrian archduke; colonel of the Ukrainian Sich Riflemen; poet
Sitter in 2 portraits

Anna Williams

1706-1783
Poet and companion of Samuel Johnson
Sitter in 2 portraits

(Gladys) Mary Wilson (née Baldwin), Lady Wilson of Rievaulx

1916-2018
Poet; wife of Harold Wilson, Baron Wilson of Rievaulx; daughter of Daniel Baldwin
Sitter in 7 portraits

A.N. Wilson

1950-
Poet, biographer, critic and journalist
Sitter in 2 portraits

Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea

1661-1720
Poet; wife of 5th Earl of Winchilsea
Sitter in 1 portrait

William Winstanley

circa 1628-1698
Poet and compiler of biographies
Sitter in 1 portrait

George Wither (Withers)

1588-1667
Poet and pamphleteer
Sitter in 2 portraits

Humbert Wolfe

1886-1940
Poet and civil servant
Sitter in 23 portraits

James Woodhouse

1735-1820
Known as 'The Poetical Shoemaker'
Sitter in 1 portrait

Thomas Woolner

1825-1892
Sculptor and poet
Sitter in 28 portraits | Artist associated with 24 portraits

William Wordsworth

1770-1850
Poet Laureate
Sitter in 23 portraits

Sir Francis Wortley, 1st Bt

1591-1652
Poet, royalist army officer and politician; MP for East Retford
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sir Henry Wotton

1568-1639
Diplomat and poet
Sitter associated with 14 portraits

David John Murray Wright

1920-1994
South African author and poet
Sitter in 1 portrait

Judith Wright

1915-2000
Poet
Sitter in 1 portrait

Kit Wright

1944-
Poet
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sir Thomas Wyatt

1503?-1542
Poet
Sitter in 5 portraits

Ann Yearsley

1756-1806
Poet
Sitter in 4 portraits

W.B. Yeats

1865-1939
Poet and dramatist; son of John Butler Yeats
Sitter in 59 portraits

Andrew John Young

1885-1971
Poet and clergyman
Sitter in 7 portraits

Edward Young

1683-1765
Poet
Sitter associated with 3 portraits

Francis Brett Young

1884-1954
Novelist and poet
Sitter in 14 portraits

Benjamin Zephaniah

1958-2023
Writer, dub poet and musician
Sitter in 3 portraits

Miklos Zrinyi (Count Nicholas Serini)

1620-1664
Hungarian statesman, military leader and poet
Sitter associated with 1 portrait