Poets

Felix Dennis

1947-2014
Magazine publisher and poet
Sitter in 3 portraits

Sir Edward Denny, 4th Bt

1796-1889
Poet and hymn writer
Sitter in 1 portrait

Pierre de Ronsard

1524-1585
French poet
Sitter in 1 portrait

John Byrne Leicester Warren, 3rd Baron De Tabley

1835-1895
Poet
Sitter in 3 portraits

Aubrey Thomas de Vere

1814-1902
Poet, critic and writer on church matters
Sitter in 2 portraits

Imtiaz Dharker

1954-
Poet, artist and documentary film-maker
Sitter in 1 portrait

Eric Charles Dickinson

1905-1951
Poet
Sitter in 2 portraits

Patric Thomas Dickinson

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

Richard Watson Dixon

1833-1900
Historian, poet and divine
Sitter in 3 portraits

Sidney Thompson Dobell

1824-1874
Poet and critic
Sitter in 1 portrait

(Henry) Austin Dobson

1840-1921
Poet and author
Sitter in 13 portraits

Rosemary Dobson

1920-2012
Poet
Sitter in 1 portrait

Robert Dodsley

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

John Donne

1572-1631
Poet and divine
Sitter associated with 21 portraits

Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset

1536-1608
Poet and Lord Treasurer
Sitter associated with 7 portraits

Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset

1643-1706
Poet and courtier
Sitter in 15 portraits

Charles Montagu Doughty

1843-1926
Poet and traveller
Sitter in 2 portraits

Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas

1870-1945
Poet
Sitter in 21 portraits

Janus Dousa (Johan van der Does)

1545-1604
Dutch statesman, historian, poet and philologist
Sitter in 3 portraits

Ernest Dowson

1867-1900
Poet
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sir Francis Doyle, 2nd Bt

1810-1888
Poet and civil servant
Sitter in 2 portraits

Michael Drayton

1563-1631
Poet
Sitter associated with 10 portraits

John Drinkwater

1882-1937
Poet and playwright
Sitter in 17 portraits

William Drummond of Hawthornden

1585-1649
Poet
Sitter associated with 11 portraits

John Dryden

1631-1700
Dramatist and Poet Laureate
Sitter associated with 31 portraits

Guillaume de Sallus, seigneur du Bartas

1544-1590
Poet, soldier and agent for Henry IV, King of France
Sitter in 1 portrait

Stephen Duck

1705-1756
Poet
Sitter in 1 portrait

Ronald Duncan

1914-1982
Playwright and poet
Sitter in 10 portraits

Susanna Duncombe (née Highmore)

1725-1812
Artist and poet
Sitter in 1 portrait | Artist associated with 1 portrait

Helen Dunmore

1952-2017
Novelist and poet
Sitter in 1 portrait

Douglas Eaglesham Dunn

1942-
Poet
Sitter in 1 portrait

John Dyer

baptised 1699-1757
Poet and painter
Artist associated with 1 portrait

Graeme Edge

1941-2021
Musician and poet; member of The Moody Blues
Sitter in 3 portraits

Thomas Edwards

1699-1757
Poet and literary editor
Sitter in 1 portrait

T.S. Eliot

1888-1965
Poet
Sitter in 68 portraits

Francis Egerton, 1st Earl of Ellesmere

1800-1857
Statesman and poet; Trustee of the National Portrait Gallery
Sitter in 14 portraits

Ebenezer Elliott

1781-1849
Called the 'Corn Law Rhymer', poet and bar-iron merchant
Sitter in 1 portrait

Royston Ellis

1941-2023
Writer
Sitter in 2 portraits

Paul Eluard

1895-1952
Poet, co-founder of the Surrealist movement
Sitter in 1 portrait

Edmund Elys

1634-after 1707
Divine and poet
Sitter in 3 portraits

Ralph Waldo Emerson

1803-1882
Poet and philosopher
Sitter in 8 portraits

Sir William Empson

1906-1984
Poet, literary critic and teacher
Sitter in 12 portraits

Dennis Joseph Enright

1920-2002
Poet and literary critic
Sitter in 2 portraits

Ralph Erskine

1686-1752
Minister of the Secession Church and poet
Sitter in 2 portraits

Bernardine Evaristo

1959-
Writer; author, poet, critic and editor; co-founder of Theatre of Black Women
Sitter in 1 portrait

Julian Henry Charles Fane

1827-1870
Diplomat and poet
Sitter in 1 portrait

U.A. Fanthorpe

1929-2009
Poet
Sitter in 2 portraits

Paul Farley

1965-
Poet
Sitter in 1 portrait

James Thomas Fields

1817-1881
Publisher and poet
Sitter in 2 portraits | Artist associated with 1 portrait

Ian Hamilton Finlay

1925-2006
Poet, artist and garden designer
Sitter in 4 portraits

Roy Fisher

1930-2017
Poet and jazz pianist
Sitter in 1 portrait

Edward Fitzgerald

1809-1883
Poet and translator of 'Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyám'
Sitter in 4 portraits

Richard Fitzpatrick

1748-1813
General, poet and politician; MP for Tavistock and Bedfordshire
Sitter associated with 7 portraits

Thomas Flatman

1635-1688
Miniature painter and poet
Sitter in 5 portraits | Artist associated with 4 portraits

Robin Ernest William Flower

1881-1946
Scholar of Irish literature and poet
Sitter in 1 portrait

Ugo Foscolo

1778-1827
Italian poet
Sitter in 1 portrait

John Freeman

1880-1929
Poet
Sitter in 2 portraits

Anne Marie Huth Fremantle (née Jackson)

1909-2002
Author, art critic, essayist and editor; wife of Hon. Christopher Evelyn Fremantle; daughter of Hon. Frederick Huth Jackson
Sitter in 18 portraits

Jean Froissart

1337?-circa 1404
Historian and poet
Sitter in 3 portraits

Robert Lee Frost

1874-1963
Poet
Sitter in 1 portrait