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Richard Weston, 1st Earl of Portland (1577-1635) diplomat, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Lord High Treasurer
Sir Anthony van, (after) Dyck
Stratford Canning, 1st Viscount Stratford De Redcliffe (1786-1880) Diplomat
Josiah Slater ( - 1847)
Frederick Christian Lewis (1779 - 1856)
Sir Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) Artist and Diplomat: Self Portrait
Peter Paul, (After) Rubens
Lady Hester Lucy Stanhope (1776-1839) traveller
Sir David Wilkie (1785 - 1841)
Alleyne Fitzherbert, Baron St. Helens (1753-1839) diplomat
John Westbrooke Chandler (1764 - 1804/1805)
William Ward (1766 - 1826)
Sir Anthony Musgrave (1828-1888) colonial governor; Governor of Jamaica 1877-1883
Lionel Grimston Fawkes (1849 - 1931)
John Campbell, Lord Glenorchy, 3rd Earl Breadalbane and Holland (c.1696-1782) politician
John Wootton (c.1682 - 1765)
The Embassy of Hyderbeck to Calcutta, from the Vizier of Oude, by way of Patna, in the Year 1788, to meet Lord Cornwallis
Richard Earlom (1743 - 1822)
Johann Zoffany (1733 - 1810)
A Diplomat
Adam Buck (1759 - 1834)
Edmund Hammond, Baron Hammond (1802-90) diplomat
Henry Weekes (1807 - 1877)
Sir Kenelm Digby (1603-1665) naval commander, diplomat and scientist
Jacobus Houbraken (1698 - 1780)
Sir George Russell Clerk (1874-1951) HM Ambassador to Ankara 1926-33
Clare Sheridan (1885 - 1970)
Sir Richard Fanshawe, 1st Baronet (1608-1666) diplomat and author
British 17th century unknown
Count Adolphus Augustus Frederic Kielmansegge (died 1866), Hanoverian diplomat
Alfred, Count d' Orsay (1801 - 1852)
Charles Kinnaird Sheridan (1817?-1847) diplomat
Alfred, Count d' Orsay (1801 - 1852)
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Lorenzo Bartolini (1777-1850) Italian Sculptor
Alfred, Count d' Orsay (1801 - 1852)
Frederick Temple Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava (1826-1902) diplomat and colonial administrator
Ernest Normand (1857 - 1923)
Robert Walpole (1676-1745), 1st Earl of Orford, Prime Minister, and Henry Bilson Legge (1708-1764), Politician
Stephen Slaughter (1697 - 1765)
Sir Augustus John Foster, 1st Baronet (1780-1848) diplomat; HM Minister to Denmark 1814-1824
Christian Albrecht Jensen (1792 - 1870)
Sir Austen Henry Layard (1817-1894) Diplomat and Archaeologist
Carlo ("Ape") Pellegrini (1839 - 1889)
Sir Robert Shirley, Count Shirley in the papal nobility (c.1581-1628) diplomat, traveller and adventurer
William Nelson Gardiner (1766 - 1814)
A Birrell (c.1770 - c.1820)
Charles Mordaunt, 3rd Earl of Peterborough and 1st Earl of Monmouth (1658?-1735) soldier and diplomat
Jacobus Houbraken (1698 - 1780)
Sir Godfrey Kneller (1646 - 1723)
Audience of a European Ambassador with the Sultan
Antonio, & Studio Guardi (1699 - 1760)
Simon Harcourt, 1st Earl Harcourt (1714-1777) politician; Lord Lieutenant of Ireland; Envoy to Mecklenberg-Strelitz for King George III’s Marriage to Charlotte
Benjamin Wilson (1721 - 1788)
Daniel Florence O’Leary (1801-1854) soldier, diplomat and author: supporter of Venezuelan Independence
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John Savile (formerly Savile Lumley), 1st Baron Savile of Rufford (1818-1896) diplomat
Auguste (Saïbas) van den Kerckhove (1825 - 1895)
Francis Cottington, 1st Baron Cottington (1578-1652) diplomat and politician
Jacobus Houbraken (1698 - 1780)
Francis Hastings, 10th Earl of Huntingdon (1729-1789) courtier and diplomat
Joseph Wilton (1722 - 1803)
Sir James Beethom Whitehead (1858-1928) diplomat
John Henry Frederick Bacon (1865/8 - 1914)
Richard Weston, 1st Earl of Portland (1577-1635) diplomat, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Lord High Treasurer
Sir Anthony van, (after) Dyck
Sir Edward Wortley Montagu (1678-1761) politician and diplomat; Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire 1716-18
John Vanderbank (1694 - 1739)
Baron Jean Antoine Théodore Gudin (1802-1880) painter
Alfred, Count d' Orsay (1801 - 1852)
Sir Henry Wotton (1568-1639) diplomat and writer
British 17th century unknown
Alexander Hume Campbell, 2nd Earl of Marchmont and 2nd Lord Polwarth (1675-1740) politician, diplomat and judge
Michael Dahl (c1659 - 1743)
‘The General and Commodore settling the question of precedence’, King’s House, Jamaica
Lionel Grimston Fawkes (1849 - 1931)
Sir William Gore Ouseley (1797-1866) diplomat: Self-Portrait
William Gore Ouseley (1797 - 1866)
A Boar Hunt at Persano under Ferdinand IV
Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein (1751 - 1829)
Stratford Canning, Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe (1786-1880) diplomat
Andrew Robertson (1777 - 1845)
George James Stodart (c.1838 - 1913)
Stratford Canning, Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe (1786-1880) diplomat
George James Stodart (c.1838 - 1913)
George Richmond (1809 - 1896)
An English Embassy before the Sultan at Fez
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Charles Stuart, Baron Stuart de Rothesay (1779-1845) diplomat
Sir George Hayter (1792 - 1871)
Hans Kaspar (Johann) von Bothmer, Count Bothmer (1656-1732) courtier and diplomat
John, I Faber (c.1660 - 1721)
His Majesty King George III and the Officers of State Receiving the Turkish Ambassador and Suit
Daniel Orme (1765 - )
Mather Brown (1761 - 1831)
John Dalrymple, 2nd Earl of Stair (1673-1747) Field Marshal and diplomat
Sir Godfrey, (school) Kneller
Francis Cottington, 1st Baron Cottington (1578-1652) Politician
Jacobus Houbraken (1698 - 1780)
Sir Walter Townley (1863-1945) diplomat
Philip Alexius de László (1869 - 1937)
John, 1st Viscount Ponsonby (c.1770-1855) Ambassador to Vienna 1846-50
John Frederick Lewis (1805 - 1876)
Sir Austen Henry Layard (1817-1894) politician, diplomat and archaeologist
(Mary) Enid Evelyn (née Guest), Lady Layard Layard (1843 - 1912)
Audience of a European Ambassador with Grand Vizir
Antonio, & Studio Guardi (1699 - 1760)
Li Hongzang (1823-1901) Chinese politician, general and diplomat
Sir William Nicholson (1872 - 1949)
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