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The Rt. Hon. Arthur Cohen (1829-1914)
Sir Frank Short (1857 - 1945)
John Singer Sargent (1856 - 1925)
Theatrical Properties
Eric Ravilious (1903 - 1942)
Gossip
Boyd and Evans (1944; 1945 - )
Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield (1804-1881) Prime Minister
Sir John Everett, (after) Millais
Richard Burdon Haldane, Viscount Haldane (1856-1928) Lord Chancellor
Sir Arthur Stockdale Cope (1857 - 1940)
Robert George Windsor-Clive, 1st Earl of Plymouth (1857-1923): “Good Works”
Sir Leslie Matthew ("Spy") Ward (1851 - 1922)
Portrait of Alton Peters
Craigie Aitchison (1926 - 2009)
Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury (1830-1903)
Thomas Oldham Barlow (1824 - 1889)
Sir John Everett Millais (1829 - 1896)
Andrew Bonar Law (1858-1923), Prime Minister
Elliott and Fry
The Second Marriage / Stanley Joscelyne’s Dream
Anthony Green (1939 - )
3: The Hall
Nicholas Garland (1935 - )
5: Late Night Conversation I
Nicholas Garland (1935 - )
Sir John Eldon Gorst (1861-1911) Consul-General, Egypt 1907-11
Cecil Jameson (1883 - 1973)
Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston (1784-1865) Prime Minister
Sir Francis Grant (1803 - 1878)
John Scott Maclay, Viscount Muirshiel (1905-1992) Secretary of State for Scotland 1957-62
Sir Herbert James Gunn (1893 - 1964)
12: Dance Floor
Nicholas Garland (1935 - )
10: Dining
Nicholas Garland (1935 - )
David Alexander Edward Lindsay, 27th Earl of Crawford and 10th Earl of Balcarres (1871-1940): “Bal”
Sir Leslie Matthew ("Spy") Ward (1851 - 1922)
Weetman Dickinson Pearson, 1st Viscount Cowdray (1856-1927)
Alfred Edmund Dyer
John Singer, (After) Sargent
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Luncheon at the British Embassy, Tokyo, 16 February 1983
David Hockney (1937 - )
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Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (1874-1965) Prime Minister
Julian Lamar (1893 - 1967)
William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898)
Thomas Oldham Barlow (1824 - 1889)
Sir John Everett Millais (1829 - 1896)
Lewis Vernon Harcourt, 1st Viscount Harcourt (1863-1922): “Lulu”
Sir Leslie Matthew ("Spy") Ward (1851 - 1922)
George Graham (1801-1888) Registrar General (1842-1879)
Frank Holl (1845 - 1888)
Robert Chalmers, Baron Chalmers (1858-1938) civil servant and colonial administrator; Permanent Secretary to the Treasury
André Cluysenaar (1872 - 1939)
James Harold Wilson, Baron Wilson of Rievaulx (1916-1995) Prime Minister
Ruskin Spear (1911 - 1990)
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Sir George Russell Clerk (1874-1951) diplomat [identity uncertain]
Albert Smith
Monsieur Decori (Secretary to President Poincaré)
Herbert Arnould Olivier (1861 - 1952)
Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield (1804-1881) Chancellor of the Exchequer; Prime Minister
Thomas Lewis Atkinson (1817 - 1889/90)
Heinrich von Angeli (1840 - 1925)
Philip Snowden, Viscount Snowden (1864-1937) politician; Chancellor of the Exchequer
Zsigmond Kisfaludi Strobl (1884 - 1975)
William Patrick Adam (1823-1881): “The Past”
Carlo ("Ape") Pellegrini (1839 - 1889)
Sir Hervey Angus de Montmorency, 16th Baronet (1888-1959) Secretary of the University Grants Committee
Miles Fletcher de Montmorency (1893 - 1963)
Sir Francis Mowatt (1837-1919) civil servant; Permanent Secretary of the Treasury 1894-1903
Charles Wellington Furse (1868 - 1904)
David Lloyd George, 1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor (1863-1945) Prime Minister
Sir William Orpen (1878 - 1931)
Evelyn Baring, 1st Earl of Cromer (1841-1917) British Agent & Consul-General in Egypt
John Singer, (After) Sargent
Samuel Melton Fisher (1860 - 1939)
Untitled – Cinema Interior
Bob Rhodes (1946 - )
Sir Frederick Francis Liddell (1865-1950) First Parliamentary Counsel and Counsel to the Speaker
Richard Evelyn Fuller Maitland (1885 - 1953)
Seated Figure
Michael Buhler (1940 - 2009)
8: Man at the Bar
Nicholas Garland (1935 - )
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The Rt. Hon. George Younger MP (1931-2003), later Baron Younger of Prestwick, Secretary of State for Scotland 1979-86, 1987
Jane Robson
Sir Mark John Mactaggart Stewart (1834-1923) MP
Sir George Reid (1841 - 1913)
Sir Charles Barry (1795-1860) Architect
Henry William Pickersgill (1782 - 1875)
Heavensfield
Tony Peart (1961 - )
William Lygon, 7th Earl Beauchamp (1872-1938): “New South Wales”
Sir Leslie Matthew ("Spy") Ward (1851 - 1922)
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David Lloyd George, 1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor (1863-1945) Chancellor of the Exchequer; Prime Minister
Arthur Davis
Frederick Temple Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava (1826-1902) diplomat and colonial administrator
Ernest Normand (1857 - 1923)
Lord Randolph Henry Spencer Churchill (1849-1895) politician; Chancellor of the Exchequer
Sir Leslie Matthew ("Spy") Ward (1851 - 1922)
Henry Peter Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux (1778-1868) Lord Chancellor
Spiridione Gambardella (c.1815 - 1886)
City
Feliks Topolski (1907 - 1989)
Victor Alexander Bruce, 9th Earl of Elgin (1849-1917): “He has decided where Churches disagreed”
Sir Leslie Matthew ("Spy") Ward (1851 - 1922)
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