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Robert ('Bobby') Abel

1857-1936
Cricketer
Sitter in 1 portrait

Eduardo Abela

1892-1965
Cuban painter and caricaturist
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sir George Edmond Brackenbury Abell

1904-1989
First civil service commissioner
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sir Westcott Stile Abell

1877-1961
Naval architect and surveyor
Sitter in 2 portraits

William Abell

1584-circa 1655
English vintner; Alderman of London
Sitter in 5 portraits

Lady May Helen Emma Abel Smith (née Cambridge)

1906-1994
Wife of Sir Henry Abel Smith; daughter of 1st Earl of Athlone and Princess Alice of Albany; great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria
Sitter in 36 portraits

Desmond Abel Smith

1892-1974
Major and director
Sitter in 5 portraits

Sir Edward Michael Conolly Abel Smith

1899-1985
Vice-Admiral
Sitter in 10 portraits

Sir Henry Abel Smith

1900-1993
Army officer and colonial administrator
Sitter in 7 portraits

Reginald Henry Macaulay Abel Smith

1890-1964
Captain and High Sheriff of Hertfordshire
Sitter in 1 portrait

Charles Benjamin Bright McLaren, 1st Baron Aberconway

1850-1934
Barrister, industrialist and politician
Sitter in 10 portraits

Christabel Mary Melville (née Macnaghten), Lady Aberconway

1890-1974
Art collector; wife of 2nd Baron Aberconway
Sitter in 1 portrait

Charles Melville McLaren, 3rd Baron Aberconway

1913-2003
Barrister and company director
Sitter in 19 portraits

Ann Lindsay (née Aymer), Lady Aberconway

1924-2019
Second wife of 3rd Baron Aberconway; former wife of Robert Lee Bullard III
Sitter in 3 portraits

James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Abercorn

1811-1885
Landowner and politician; Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
Sitter in 13 portraits

Louisa Jane (née Russell), Duchess of Abercorn

1812-1905
Wife of 1st Duke of Abercorn; daughter of 6th Duke of Bedford
Sitter in 6 portraits

James Hamilton, 2nd Duke of Abercorn

1838-1913
Diplomat and politician; MP for County Donegal
Sitter in 5 portraits

James Albert Edward Hamilton, 3rd Duke of Abercorn

1869-1953
Soldier and politician, Governor of Northern Ireland
Sitter in 14 portraits

James Edward Hamilton, 4th Duke of Abercorn

1904-1979
Army officer and Member of Government of Northern Ireland
Sitter in 8 portraits

Mary Kathleen (née Crichton), Duchess of Abercorn

1905-1990
Mistress of the Robes to Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother; wife of 4th Duke of Abercorn; daughter of Henry William Crichton, Viscount Crichton
Sitter in 3 portraits