Vendors, merchants and manufacturers

Sir Dhunjibhoy Bomanji

1862-1937
Merchant and philanthropist
Sitter in 5 portraits

Thomson Bonar

died 1813
Russian merchant and bank director
Sitter associated with 1 portrait

Edward Bonkil

died 1482
Edinburgh merchant; provost of the Collegiate Church of the Holy Trinity, Edinburgh
Sitter in 1 portrait

Alfred Bourne

born circa 1812
Merchant
Sitter associated with 1 portrait

James Bowen

1818-1877
Merchant seaman and Captain of the Great Eastern
Sitter in 1 portrait

Francis Boyce

Merchant skipper; grandfather of Cecil Reginald Grundy
Sitter in 1 portrait

James Bradshaw

died 1783
Merchant
Sitter in 4 portraits

Edward Bright

1721-1750
Grocer of Maldon
Sitter in 5 portraits

Charles Edward Brightwen

1850-1896
Grocer and schoolmaster; son of Charles Brightwen
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sir John Brockett

circa 1511-1558
Spanish merchant and politician; MP for Oxford
Sitter in 2 portraits

Sir Basil Brooke

1576-1646
Iron-founder and royalist conspirator
Sitter in 1 portrait

Henry John Brown

born 1863
Oil company chairman
Sitter in 1 portrait

John Gordon Brown

1814-1903
Merchant; son of Jonathan Brown of Jamaica
Sitter in 1 portrait

Timothy Brown

1743 or 1744-1820
Banker and brewer; father of Sarah, Mrs Edward Vernon Utterson
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sir William Brown, 1st Bt

1784-1864
Merchant and politician
Sitter in 1 portrait

John Bryer

died 1770
East India merchant and financier; brother of Henry Bryer the printseller
Sitter in 1 portrait

Walter Buchanan

1797-1883
Politician and merchant
Sitter in 3 portraits

Sir Edmund Fleming Bushby

1879-1943
Cotton merchant
Sitter in 1 portrait

Samuel Butler

1816-1893
East India merchant; landowner; magistrate
Sitter in 1 portrait

Colin Stewart Caird

1826-1912
Merchant and shipowner
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sir James Cambell

circa 1570-1642
Merchant; Lord Mayor of London
Sitter in 4 portraits

William Canynge

1399?-1474
Merchant and monk
Sitter in 2 portraits

Emily Castellain (née Saunders)

1839-1913
Wife of Alfred Castellain; daughter of Charles Saunders, merchant
Sitter in 1 portrait

Stephen Gordon Catto, 2nd Baron Catto

1923-2001
Merchant banker
Sitter in 1 portrait

William Caxton

1415-1492
Printer, merchant and diplomat
Sitter in 7 portraits

Robert Chamberlain

1632?-1696
Merchant and mathematician
Sitter in 2 portraits

Sir John Chardin

1643-1712
Diamond merchant and travel writer
Sitter in 5 portraits

John Cholmley

died 1693
Brother of Nathaniel Cholmley, merchant of London
Sitter in 1 portrait

Thomas Clark

1737-1816
Merchant
Sitter associated with 2 portraits

Richard Clough

circa 1530-1570
Merchant
Sitter in 2 portraits

John Clow

active 1840
Liverpool merchant
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sir John Edward ('Jack') Cohen

1898-1979
Grocer and philanthropist; creator of Tesco stores
Sitter in 2 portraits

Joseph Collet

1673-1725
Merchant and administrator in Sumatra and Madras
Sitter in 1 portrait

Edward Colston

1636-1721
Trader of enslaved people; merchant and philanthropist
Sitter in 2 portraits

James Colvin

1768-1847
Merchant
Sitter in 3 portraits

Frederick Henry Smith, 1st Baron Colwyn

1859-1946
Rubber and cotton manufacturer
Sitter in 3 portraits

Josiah Conder

1789-1855
Bookseller
Sitter in 4 portraits

Sir Daniel Cooper, 1st Bt

1821-1902
Merchant and philanthropist
Sitter in 1 portrait

Janet Cooper (née Lyle)

1944-
Co-founder of Annacat boutique
Sitter in 1 portrait

Henry Cornish

died 1685
Alderman and merchant
Sitter in 3 portraits