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Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy

1809-1847
Composer
Sitter in 2 portraits

Egidius Mengelberg

1770-1849
Portrait painter, interior designer and Art teacher
Artist associated with 1 portrait

Anton Raphael Mengs

1728-1779
Artist
Artist associated with 10 portraits

Count Arthur von Mensdorff-Pouilly

1817-1904
Austrian general
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sophie Menter

1846-1918
German pianist and composer
Sitter in 1 portrait

Adolf Von Menzel

1815-1905
German realist painter
Sitter in 1 portrait

Roderich Ferdinand Ottomar Menzel

1907-1987
Tennis player and author
Sitter in 1 portrait

Philip Mercier

1691-1760
Portrait painter
Sitter in 3 portraits | Artist associated with 26 portraits

Angela Merkel

1954-
Chancellor of Germany
Sitter in 1 portrait

Prince Klemens Lothar Wenzel von Metternich

1773-1859
Austrian statesman
Sitter associated with 3 portraits

Conrad Martin Metz

1749-1827
Engraver, painter and draughtsman
Artist associated with 6 portraits

Gustav Metzger

1926-2017
Artist and political activist
Sitter in 17 portraits

Sir Carl Ferdinand Meyer, 1st Bt

1851-1922
Financier
Sitter in 1 portrait

Jeremiah Meyer

1735-1789
Miniature painter
Sitter in 6 portraits | Artist associated with 8 portraits

Kuno Meyer

1858-1919
Scholar
Sitter in 1 portrait

Victor Meyer

1848-1897
German chemist
Sitter in 1 portrait

Giacomo Meyerbeer (né Jakob Liebmann Meyer Beer)

1791-1864
Opera composer
Sitter in 3 portraits

Philipp Meyersburg

born circa 1814
Banking clerk
Sitter in 1 portrait

Adolf Michaelis

1835-1910
Art historian and classical scholar; friend of Sir George Scharf
Sitter in 1 portrait

Derek Osborne Middleton

1917-1983
Artist; painter
Sitter in 1 portrait

Stanislaw Mikolajczyk

1901-1966
Prime Minister of the exiled Polish government
Sitter in 10 portraits

George Mountbatten, 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven

1892-1938
Captain
Sitter in 14 portraits

Christopher Miller

active early 18th century
The German Giant
Sitter in 1 portrait

John Sebastian Miller (formerly Johann Sebastian Müller)

1715-1792
Engraver and botanist
Artist associated with 34 portraits

Lee Miller

1907-1977
Photographer
Sitter in 16 portraits | Artist associated with 19 portraits

Alfred Milner, Viscount Milner

1854-1925
Public servant and politician, High Commissioner for South Africa
Sitter in 26 portraits

Ernst Milster

born 1835
Photographer
Artist of 3 portraits

Sir Andrew Mitchell

1708-1771
Diplomat
Sitter in 1 portrait

Alice Moffat

born 1888
Actress
Sitter in 2 portraits

Sir William Molesworth, 8th Bt

1810-1855
Politician, First Commissioner of Works and Colonial Secretary
Sitter in 20 portraits

Bernhard Molique

1802-1869
Violinist and composer
Sitter in 1 portrait

Helmuth Karl Bernhard von Moltke, Count von Moltke

1800-1891
Field Marshal and military theorist
Sitter associated with 19 portraits

Theodore Mommsen

1817-1903
German historian
Sitter in 1 portrait

Ludwig Mond

1839-1909
Chemist and art collector
Sitter in 3 portraits

Mondel & Jacob

Photographers
Artist of 3 portraits

Lola Montez (Elizabeth Rosanna Gilbert)

1821-1861
Adventuress, dancer and actress
Sitter in 1 portrait

John Francis Moore

died 1809
Sculptor
Artist associated with 1 portrait

Ernst Morace

1766-1820
Copperplate engraver
Artist associated with 2 portraits

Daniel Georg Morhof

1639-1691
Writer and scholar
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sir Robert Burnett David Morier

1826-1893
Diplomat
Sitter in 3 portraits

Claus Adolf Moser, Baron Moser

1922-2015
Social statistician, educationalist, businessman and administrator for the arts
Sitter in 3 portraits

Diana Mitford (later Lady Mosley)

1910-2003
Nazi sympathiser and author; former wife of Hon. Bryan Guinness, and later wife of Sir Oswald Mosley, 6th Bt; daughter of 2nd Baron Redesdale
Sitter in 24 portraits

Desmond Mountjoy (Wellesley William Desmond Chapman-Huston Mountjoy)

1884-1952
Writer
Sitter in 1 portrait

Karl Muck

1859-1940
Conductor
Sitter in 1 portrait

Poldi Müller

active 1910s
Dancer and actress
Sitter in 16 portraits

Ruth Müller-Wirth

Production Manager for Publications, National Portrait Gallery
Sitter in 1 portrait

Carey Mulligan

1985-
Actress
Sitter in 1 portrait

Count Georg Herbert zu Münster

1820-1902
German Ambassador
Sitter in 1 portrait

Harriet Elizabeth (née St Clair-Erskine), Countess Münster

1831-1867
Wife of George Herbert‚ Count Münster (later Prince Münster of Derneburg); daughter of 3rd Earl of Rosslyn
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sir Charles Augustus Murray

1806-1895
Diplomat and writer
Sitter in 1 portrait

Eva Najman

1923-
Illustrator, painter and printmaker
Sitter in 1 portrait

Ernst Casimir, Count of Nassau

1573-1632
Field marshal and Stadtholder of Friesland
Sitter in 1 portrait

John VII, Count of Nassau

1561-1617
Count of Nassau and Siegen
Sitter in 1 portrait

William Louis, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg

1560-1620
Count of Nassau-Dillenburg
Sitter in 1 portrait

Thomas Nast

1840-1902
Artist
Artist of 6 portraits

Hermann Naumann

1930-
Painter
Sitter in 1 portrait

Suzanne Necker (née Curchod)

1739-1794
Author; wife of Jacques Necker; mother of Madame de Staël-Hollstein
Sitter in 1 portrait

Ethel Negretti

1879-circa 1918
Singer and actress
Sitter in 1 portrait

Marion Neilson

1875-1965
Photographer
Artist of 1 portrait

Caspar Netscher

1639-1684
Dutch artist
Sitter in 2 portraits | Artist associated with 9 portraits