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Donald Stuart Leslie Friend

1915-1989
Artist and writer
Sitter in 1 portrait

Maxwell Fry

1899-1987
Architect, painter and writer
Sitter in 3 portraits

Sir William Duff Gibbon

1837-1919
Senior planter of Ceylon
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sir (Thomas Herbert) John Chapman Goodwin

1871-1960
Army surgeon and colonial governor
Sitter in 11 portraits

Sir Oliver Ernest Goonetilleke

1892-1978
Governor-General of Ceylon
Sitter in 14 portraits

Constance Frederica Gordon-Cumming

1837-1924
Travel writer
Sitter in 1 portrait

Archibald Rollo Graham-Campbell

1903-1978
Bishop of Colombo
Sitter in 2 portraits

Sir Albert Gray

1850-1928
Barrister and civil servant in Ceylon; brother of Effie Millais
Sitter in 3 portraits

Sir William Henry Gregory

1817-1892
Anglo-Irish writer and politician, and Governor of Ceylon; husband of Lady Gregory, the writer and folklorist
Sitter in 5 portraits

Henry George Grey, 3rd Earl Grey

1802-1894
Secretary for the Colonies
Sitter associated with 36 portraits

Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford

1766-1827
Politician and Governor of Ceylon
Sitter associated with 6 portraits

Romesh Gunesekera

1954-
Author
Sitter in 1 portrait

Wimala Dhamma Hewavitarne

born circa 1913
Publisher; son of Charles Alvis Hewavitarne
Sitter in 1 portrait

Cecil Douglas Horsley

1903-1953
Bishop of Colombo and Gibraltar
Sitter in 5 portraits

Sir Everard Ferdinand im Thurn

1852-1932
Author, explorer and Governor of Fiji and Ceylon
Sitter in 5 portraits

Sir Henry Turner Irving

1833-1923
Colonial governor
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sir Edward St John Jackson

1886-1961
Colonial Attorney-General
Sitter in 5 portraits

Sir Don Baron Jayatilaka

1868-1944
Educationalist, statesman, barrister and colonial administrator
Sitter in 4 portraits

Ellis Jeffreys

1872-1943
Actress; wife of Herbert Sleath Skelton
Sitter in 31 portraits

Sir John Jeremie

1795-1841
Colonial judge
Sitter in 4 portraits

Sir Alexander Johnston

1775-1849
Judge and government reformer in Ceylon
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sir Charles Ernest Jones

1892-1953
Civil servant in Ceylon
Sitter in 3 portraits

Edwin Hubert Knowles

1874-1962
Bishop of Qu’Appelle
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sir John Lionel Kotelawala

1897-1980
Prime Minister of Ceylon
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sir George St Patrick Lawrence

1804-1884
General
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sir Henry Montgomery Lawrence

1806-1857
General in the East India Company
Sitter in 9 portraits

Sir Henry Austin Lee

1847-1918
Diplomat
Sitter in 5 portraits

Sir Frederick Francis Liddell

1865-1950
Governor of Ceylon
Sitter in 3 portraits

Henry Matthews, Viscount Llandaff

1826-1913
Lawyer and politician
Sitter in 7 portraits

John Charsley Mackwood

circa 1886-1958
Doctor
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sir Gordon Nevil Macready, 2nd Bt

1891-1956
Lieutenant-General
Sitter in 4 portraits

Sir Eugen John Henry Vanderstegen Millington-Drake

1889-1972
Diplomat, writer and sportsman
Sitter in 1 portrait

Cyril Moore

Editor, 'Countrygoer' books
Sitter in 7 portraits

Sir Henry Monck-Mason Moore

1887-1964
Colonial governor
Sitter in 11 portraits

Aurabinda Nath Mukerjee

1892-1970
Bishop of India, Pakistan, Burma and Ceylon
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sir William Lindsay Murphy

1887-1965
Colonial administrator
Sitter in 4 portraits

Robert Cornelis Napier, 1st Baron Napier of Magdala

1810-1890
Field Marshal
Sitter in 27 portraits

Marianne North

1830-1890
Painter and traveller
Sitter in 3 portraits

Sir (William) Guy Nott-Bower

1890-1977
Civil servant
Sitter in 5 portraits

Laurence Oliphant

1829-1888
Diplomatist and traveller
Sitter in 1 portrait