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Frederick Jessel Benson (né Jessel Bebro)

1875-1930
Financier and Director of Swansea Harbour
Sitter in 1 portrait

Mark Bensted

1958-
Transport executive; Director, British Waterways
Sitter in 1 portrait

Walter Owen Bentley

1888-1971
Designer and racer of motor cars
Sitter in 2 portraits

Frank Beswick, Baron Beswick

1912-1987
Chairman of British Aerospace and politician
Sitter in 15 portraits

Noel Pemberton Billing

1880-1948
Pioneer aviator, inventor, writer and politician
Sitter in 3 portraits

John Bird

1709-1776
Astronomical instrument maker
Sitter in 2 portraits

Peter Birrell

1941-
Musician and chauffeur; bass player for Freddie and the Dreamers
Sitter in 1 portrait

Jean Pierre François Blanchard

1753-1809
French balloonist
Sitter in 1 portrait

Louis Charles Joseph Blériot

1872-1936
Aviator, inventor and engineer
Sitter in 10 portraits

Tilleman Hodgkinson Bobart

1770-1838
Coachman
Sitter in 4 portraits

Louis Hamilton Bolton

1884-1953
Shipowner
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sir Maurice Bonham-Carter

1880-1960
Director of Blackburn and General Aircraft Ltd
Sitter in 6 portraits

Charles Booth

1840-1916
Shipowner
Sitter in 3 portraits

William John Bosworth

1858-1923
Soldier; Founder of the Military College, Roehampton, and the Automobile Association
Sitter in 1 portrait

Henry John Lawrence Botterell

1896-2003
World War I combat pilot
Sitter in 1 portrait

James Bowen

1818-1877
Merchant seaman and Captain of the Great Eastern
Sitter in 1 portrait

Francis Boyce

Merchant skipper; grandfather of Cecil Reginald Grundy
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sir Robert Lewis Fullarton Boyd

1922-2004
Professor of Physics; Director, Mullard Space Science Laboratory, UCL
Sitter associated with 2 portraits

Sir William Sefton Brancker

1877-1930
Major-General and Air Vice-Marshal
Sitter in 23 portraits

James Brand

circa 1833-1893
Chairman of the pioneering United Telephone Company, and of Harvey, Brand & Co, East India & China Merchants
Sitter in 2 portraits