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Ian Murray Hurrell

1914-1989
Diplomat
Sitter in 1 portrait

Seema Kennedy

1974-
Conservative politician; MP for South Ribble
Sitter in 1 portrait

Mimi Khalvati

1944-
Poet and actress
Sitter in 1 portrait

Mirza Abdul Hassan Khan Ilci

1776-1845
Persian Ambassador
Sitter in 1 portrait

Ayatollah Khomeini

1902-1989
Iranian politician and cleric
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sir Hughe Montgomery Knatchbull-Hugessen

1886-1971
Diplomat
Sitter in 5 portraits

Sir Frank Cavendish Lascelles

1841-1920
Diplomat
Sitter in 5 portraits

Valentine Lawford

1911-1991
Diplomat and partner of Horst P. Horst
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sir Austen Henry Layard

1817-1894
Politician, diplomat and archaeologist
Sitter in 23 portraits

Sir John Helier Le Rougetel

1894-1975
Diplomat; Ambassador to Persia and Belgium and High Commissioner in South Africa
Sitter in 3 portraits

Doris Lessing

1919-2013
Writer; Nobel Prize winner
Sitter in 17 portraits

Sir John Malcolm

1769-1833
Diplomat and administrator in India
Sitter in 5 portraits

Niaz Maleknia

1969-
Photojournalist
Artist of 1 portrait

Sir Victor Alexander Louis Mallet

1893-1969
Diplomat; Ambassador at Madrid and Ambassador at Rome
Sitter in 7 portraits

Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran

1919-1980
Shah of Iran from 1941 to 1979
Sitter in 12 portraits

Farshid Moussavi

1965-
Architect, educator and author
Sitter in 2 portraits

Prince Mozaffar

1906-1988
Persian Prince; son of Prince Ferouz
Sitter in 8 portraits

Mozaffar od-Din, Shah of Persia

1852-1907
King of Iran; reigned 1896-1907
Sitter in 2 portraits

Sir Charles Augustus Murray

1806-1895
Diplomat and writer
Sitter in 1 portrait

Nasser al-Din, Shah of Persia

1831-1896
Reigned 1848-96
Sitter in 13 portraits

Vrej Nersessian

1948-
Priest of the Armenian Church and curator of the Christian Middle East Section, British Library
Sitter in 1 portrait

Shirin Neshat

1957-
Photographer
Artist of 2 portraits

Reynold Alleyne Nicholson

1868-1945
Professor of Arabic
Sitter in 7 portraits

Harold Nicolson

1886-1968
Diplomat and writer; husband of Vita Sackville-West
Sitter associated with 21 portraits

Sir Lancelot Oliphant

1881-1965
Diplomat
Sitter in 8 portraits

Sir Gore Ouseley, 1st Bt

1770-1844
Diplomat and oriental scholar
Sitter in 4 portraits

John Mellor Pattinson

1899-1999
Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, South Iran
Sitter in 2 portraits

Robert Desmond H. Phayre

1915-2007
Colonel
Sitter in 4 portraits

Sir Thomas Cecil Rapp

1893-1984
Diplomat and Head of British Middle East Office, Cairo
Sitter in 3 portraits

Sir Horace George Montagu Rumbold, 9th Bt

1869-1941
Diplomat
Sitter in 17 portraits

Geoffrey Leonard Seabrook

1909-2008
Air Vice-Marshal
Sitter in 1 portrait

Princess Shahnaz Pahlavi of Iran

1940-
Daughter of Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran and Queen Fawzieh
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sir Francis Michie Shepherd

1893-1962
Ambassador to Poland and Persia
Sitter in 1 portrait

Anthony Sherley (Shirley)

1565-circa 1636
Count Sherley in the nobility of the Holy Roman empire (1565-1636?), adventurer and diplomat in the Persian service
Sitter associated with 5 portraits

Teresia, Lady Shirley

circa 1579-1668
Wife of Sir Robert Shirley
Sitter in 1 portrait

(William) Morgan Shuster

1877-1960
US civil servant and treasurer-general of Persia
Sitter in 1 portrait

Jon Snow

1947-
Television presenter
Sitter in 3 portraits

Sir Alexander Condie Stephen

1850-1908
Diplomat and writer
Sitter in 2 portraits

Sir Roger Bentham Stevens

1906-1980
Banker, Director, British Bank of the Middle East
Sitter in 2 portraits

Charles Harvey Stileman

1863-1925
Bishop in Persia
Sitter in 1 portrait