Vendors, merchants and manufacturers

Nicholas Murford

active 1638-1652
Puritan merchant; poet
Sitter in 1 portrait

James Napier

circa 1807-1872
Merchant and shipowner
Sitter in 1 portrait

Michael Nassif

died 1893
Merchant
Sitter associated with 1 portrait

Sir Amos Nelson

1860-1947
Cotton manufacturer
Sitter in 4 portraits

Charles Neufeld

1856-1918
Merchant and writer
Sitter in 2 portraits

Nathaniel Newnham

circa 1710-1780
Merchant; father of Nathaniel Newnham
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sir Percy Wilson Newson, 1st Bt

1874-1950
Politician, banker and jute merchant
Sitter in 7 portraits

John Ninet

1815-1895
Cotton producer and merchant
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sir John Gardiner Nutting, 1st Bt

1852-1918
Brewer and railwayman
Sitter in 1 portrait

Robert Orchard

circa 1783-active 1804
Grocer and tea dealer in Soho
Sitter in 1 portrait | Artist associated with 1 portrait

Sir John Holbrook Osborn

1922-2015
Technical director, Samuel Osborn & Company and Conservative politician; MP for Sheffield Hallam
Sitter in 1 portrait

Thomas Papillon

1623-1702
Merchant and politician
Sitter in 1 portrait

Demetris Pappacalo

Merchant
Sitter in 1 portrait

Owen Parker

1860-1936
Shoe manufacturer and politician; MP
Sitter in 2 portraits

Sir Alfred Vaughan Paton

1861-1930
Cotton merchant and company director
Sitter in 1 portrait

George Peabody

1795-1869
Merchant banker and philanthropist
Sitter in 16 portraits

Sir Walter Peace

1840-1917
Diplomat and merchant
Sitter in 5 portraits

Sir Robert Peake

circa 1605-1667
Printseller and royalist army officer
Sitter in 1 portrait | Artist associated with 65 portraits

Richard Peek

1782-1867
Tea merchant, philanthropist and slavery abolitionist
Sitter in 4 portraits

Jerajbhai Peerbhai

1832-1887
Indian merchant and philanthropist
Sitter in 1 portrait

Dorothy ('Dolly') Pentreath (Dorothy Jeffery)

1685-1777
Fishseller and Cornish speaker
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sir Dinshaw Manockjee Petit, 1st Bt

1823-1901
Parsi merchant and philanthropist
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sir John Pettus

1550-1614
Mayor of Norwich and merchant
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sir Richard Phillips

1767-1840
Writer, bookseller and publisher
Sitter in 2 portraits | Artist associated with 4 portraits

Emil William Pickering

1882-1942
Lieutenant-Colonel, Justice of the Peace, mason and Conservative politician; MP for Dewsbury
Sitter in 1 portrait

Rose (née Saunders), Lady Piers

1841-1891
Wife of Sir Eustace Fitzmaurice Piers, 8th Bt; daughter of Charles Saunders, merchant
Sitter in 1 portrait

James Pilkington

1804-1890
Merchant, cotton manufacturer and politician
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sir Thomas Pilkington

1628-1691
Lord Mayor of London, merchant and politician
Sitter in 3 portraits

George Pitcairn

died 1791
Captain in the Edinburgh Town Guard and cloth-merchant
Sitter in 1 portrait

George Pix

born 1660
Merchant tailor; husband of Mary Pix
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sir Thomas Potter

1774-1845
Merchant and Mayor of Manchester
Sitter in 1 portrait

John Poyer

died 1649
Merchant and army officer
Sitter in 1 portrait

Henry Johann Ferdinand Praeger

1850-1914
Army officer and merchant; son of Ferdinand Praeger
Sitter in 2 portraits

Robert Pulsford

died circa 1835
Merchant
Sitter in 3 portraits

Charlton Conyers Rainbow

1837-1893
Merchant
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sir Lucas Eustratio Ralli, 1st Bt

1846-1931
Merchant and hospital governor; son of Eustratio Stephen Ralli
Sitter in 1 portrait

Peter Pantia Ralli

1837-1868
Merchant and benefactor; son of Pantia Stephen Ralli
Sitter associated with 2 portraits

Stephen Augustus Ralli

1829-1902
Merchant
Sitter in 1 portrait

William Rathbone

1819-1902
Merchant and philanthropist; pioneer organiser of nursing services
Sitter in 2 portraits

Philip Russell Rea, 2nd Baron Rea

1900-1981
Politician and merchant banker
Sitter in 15 portraits