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Isaac Bargrave

baptised 1586-1643
Dean of Canterbury
Sitter in 1 portrait

Richard Harris Barham

1788-1845
Author of 'The Ingoldsby Legends'
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sir John Barker

1840-1914
Department store owner
Sitter in 1 portrait

Peter Wynn Barkworth

1929-2006
Actor; theatre and TV director
Sitter in 3 portraits

Charles James Barnett

circa 1797-1882
Amateur cricketer and politician; MP for Maidstone
Sitter in 1 portrait

James Barnett

1760-1836
Banker and politician; MP for Rochester
Sitter in 1 portrait

Walter H. Barrett

Photographer
Artist of 1 portrait

Sir Henry Winston Barron, 1st Bt

1795-1872
Politician; MP for Waterford City
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sir Charles Barry

1795-1860
Architect
Sitter in 8 portraits

Helen Barry

1840-1904
Actress; former wife of Joseph Brandon and of Alexander Rolls, and later wife of Harry George Bolam
Sitter in 10 portraits

Derek Harold Richard Barton

1918-1998
Professor of Organic Chemistry
Sitter in 1 portrait

Marjorie ('Madge') Bates (née Cox)

1909-2004
Wife of Herbert Ernest ('H.E.') Bates
Sitter associated with 2 portraits

Elizabeth Honor Cooper Beach-Thomas Hilton (née Hawkesworth)

1914-1992
Sitter associated with 1 portrait

Thomas Becket

1120?-1170
Archbishop of Canterbury
Sitter in 14 portraits

Richard Beeching, 1st Baron Beeching

1913-1985
Chairman of British Railways Board, 1963-1965
Sitter in 12 portraits

Aphra Behn (née Johnson)

1640-1689
Dramatist, novelist and spy
Sitter associated with 4 portraits

Barbara Behr (née Costerton)

1921-2019
Tennis player
Sitter in 4 portraits

Sir Richard Rodney Bennett

1936-2012
Composer
Sitter in 4 portraits

Edward White Benson

1829-1896
Archbishop of Canterbury
Sitter in 54 portraits

Frank Benson

1858-1939
Actor and theatre manager
Sitter in 25 portraits

Marcus Bentley

1967-
Actor, broadcaster and voice-over artist
Sitter in 1 portrait

Tristram de la Poer Beresford

1887-1962
Barrister
Sitter in 1 portrait

John Berryman

born 1853
Photographer
Artist of 2 portraits

Sir Geoffrey Lawrence Betham

1889-1963
Lieutenant-General and Indian civil servant
Sitter in 1 portrait

Edward Ladd Betts

1815-1872
Railway contractor
Sitter in 1 portrait

Joseph Binns

1900-1975
Consulting engineer and Labour politician; MP for Gillingham
Sitter in 4 portraits

Michael Pellew Birley

1920-2012
Headmaster of Eastbourne College
Sitter in 1 portrait

Peter Blake

1932-
Painter
Sitter in 15 portraits | Artist associated with 4 portraits

Lilian Bland

1878-1971
Aviator, aeronautical engineer and journalist; designed and constructed the 'Bland Mayfly'
Sitter in 1 portrait

Robert Peel Glanville Blatchford

1851-1943
Journalist and author
Sitter in 1 portrait

Brenda Blethyn

1946-
Actress
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sir Hilary Rudolph Robert Blood

1893-1967
Colonial administrator
Sitter in 11 portraits

Francis Eric Bloy

1904-1993
Bishop of Los Angeles
Sitter in 1 portrait

Rosalie May Blumberg

1900-1984
Sitter associated with 1 portrait

Barbara Katherine Bolster (née Skinner)

1903-1942
Motor racing driver
Sitter associated with 1 portrait

Christopher Guy Bomford

died 2003
Captain; son of Guy Bomford
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sir (Samuel) George Bonham, 1st Bt

1803-1863
Colonial governor
Sitter in 1 portrait

Alfred Charles Bossom, Baron Bossom

1881-1965
Architect and Conservative politician: MP for Maidstone
Sitter in 15 portraits

Terence George Boston, Baron Boston of Faversham

1930-2011
Politician; MP for Faversham
Sitter in 4 portraits

Arthur George Bottomley, Baron Bottomley

1907-1995
Labour politician; MP for Chatham
Sitter in 13 portraits

Ann Catharine Bourgein (née Bates, later Sudlow)

1932-
Daughter of H.E. Bates
Sitter associated with 2 portraits

Gilbert Bowley

Photographer
Artist of 1 portrait

Edward Boys

1599-1667
Divine
Sitter in 3 portraits

Sir John Boys

circa 1535-1612
Founder of Jesus Hospital almshouses, politician and judge
Sitter in 1 portrait

John Boys

1571-1625
Dean of Canterbury
Sitter in 7 portraits

Thomas Boys

active 1840s-1859
Fine art publisher
Artist associated with 19 portraits

John Moore-Brabazon, 1st Baron Brabazon of Tara

1884-1964
Statesman and sportsman
Sitter in 16 portraits

Basil Vivian Fabian Brackenbury

1889-1965
Headmaster, St Lawrence College, Ramsgate
Sitter in 1 portrait

Samuel Bradford

1652-1731
Bishop of Rochester
Sitter in 2 portraits

Elizabeth Eleanor Brain

1837-1924
Wife of Richard Frederick Brain
Sitter in 4 portraits

Richard Frederick Brain

1838-1906
Mayor of Chatham
Sitter in 3 portraits

Dame (Florence) Lilian Braithwaite

1873-1948
Actress
Sitter in 44 portraits

Edwin Noel Westby Bramall, Baron Bramall

1923-
Field Marshal
Sitter in 4 portraits

Henry Arthur Brassey

1840-1891
Liberal politician; MP for Sandwich
Sitter in 1 portrait

Hon. Jane Margaret Bray (née James)

1908-1966
Daughter of 3rd Baron Northbourne; wife of Hilary Maurice Bray
Sitter in 1 portrait

John Brenchley

1725-1791
Brewer of Maidstone
Sitter in 1 portrait

Dame Ursula Brennan

1952-
Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Justice and Clerk of the Crown in Chancery
Sitter in 1 portrait

William Joynson-Hicks, 1st Viscount Brentford

1865-1932
Statesman
Sitter in 9 portraits

Thomas Brett

1667-1744
Bishop of the nonjuring Church of England
Sitter in 1 portrait

Robert Bridges

1844-1930
Poet Laureate
Sitter in 27 portraits