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Sir (Richard) Stafford Cripps (1889-1952) Chancellor of the Exchequer – “Dr. Stafford & Mr. Cripps”
Sir David Low (1891 - 1963)
The Rt. Hon. Arthur Cohen (1829-1914)
John Singer Sargent (1856 - 1925)
Sir Frank Short (1857 - 1945)
Cuthbert Tunstal (1474-1559) judge, diplomat and clergyman
Pierre Fourdrinier ( - 1758)
John Carmichael, 3rd Earl of Hyndford (1701-1767), Ambassador to Vienna 1752-64
Jonathan, Snr Richardson (1665 - 1745)
Constantine Henry Phipps, 1st Marquess of Normanby (1797-1863)
Henry Perronet Briggs (1791/93 - 1844)
Charles Turner (1774 - 1857)
Sir Woodbine Parish (1796-1882) Chargé d’Affaires, Buenos Aires 1825-32
Thomas, (After) Phillips
Alfred Edmund Dyer
Christopher Bainbridge (1462/3-1514) diplomat, judge, archbishop and cardinal
British 16th century unknown
“Just Pretend it’s not There George….”
Nicholas Garland (1935 - )
Thomas Wilson (not Nicholas Bacon)
Federico Zuccaro (1540 - 1609)
Jacobus Houbraken (1698 - 1780)
George William Frederick Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon (1800-1870) politician and diplomat
James Sant (1820 - 1916)
Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford (1672-1739) diplomat and army officer
Paul Carl Leygebe (1664 - 1730)
Edgar Vincent, Viscount d’Abernon (1857-1941) financier and diplomat
Augustus John (1878 - 1961)
James Stanhope, 1st Earl Stanhope (1673-1721)
Sir Godfrey Kneller (1646 - 1723)
John, I Faber (c.1660 - 1721)
Sir Reginald Wingate (1861-1953) British High Commissioner in Egypt
Cairo Anglo-Swiss Studio
Sir Thomas Smith (1513-1577) scholar, diplomat, and political theorist
Hans Holbein (1497/8 - 1543)
Jacobus Houbraken (1698 - 1780)
Sir George William Buchanan (1854-1924) diplomat
Kathleen, (Lady Kennet) Scott (1878 - 1947)
Sir George William Buchanan (1854-1924) diplomat
Kathleen, (Lady Kennet) Scott (1878 - 1947)
John George Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham (1792-1840) Governor-in-Chief of British North America and High Commissioner to Canada
Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769 - 1830)
Charles Edward Wagstaff (1808 - 1850)
James Vernon (1667-1756) as a boy
Sir Godfrey Kneller (1646 - 1723)
Constantine Henry Phipps, 1st Marquess of Normanby (1797-1863) Ambassador to Paris 1846-62
Alfred, Count d' Orsay (1801 - 1852)
Chinese Military drawn out in Compliment to the British Embassador [sic]
William Alexander (1767 - 1816)
Benjamin Thomas Pouncy ( - 1799)
Henry Sidney, 1st Earl of Romney (1641-1704) polician, army officer, envoy to The Hague 1679-1681
Sir John Baptist de Medina (1659 - 1710)
Warren Hastings (1732-1818) Governor General of India
Thomas Banks (1735 - 1805)
Edward James Dawkins (1791/2-1865) Minister Plenipotentiary in Greece
British 19th century unknown
Drawing Room in Pompeian Style for the Ambassador’s Residence, Porta Pia, Rome
Basil Spence (1907 - 1976)
Interview with the Viceroy of Egypt, at his Palace, Alexandria, May 12th 1839
David Roberts (1796 - 1864)
Louis Haghe (1806 - 1885)
Stratford Canning, Viscount Stratford De Redcliffe (1786-1880) diplomat
Sir Joseph Edgar Boehm (1834 - 1890)
Sir William Temple (1628-1699) diplomat and author
Sir Peter Lely (1618 - 1680)
Jacobus Houbraken (1698 - 1780)
Sir John Eldon Gorst (1861-1911) Consul-General, Egypt 1907-11
Cecil Jameson (1883 - 1973)
Stratford Canning, Viscount Stratford De Redcliffe (1786-1880) diplomat
Josiah Slater ( - 1847)
Frederick Christian Lewis (1779 - 1856)
European Ambassador in Second Court of Topkapi Palace
Antonio, & Studio Guardi (1699 - 1760)
Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke (1678-1751) politician, diplomat and author
Charles Jervas (c.1675 - 1739)
Sir Richard Wood (1806-1900) Consul-General to Tunisia 1855-79
(Alexander von) Sándor Liezen-Mayer (1839 - 1898)
Sir John Chardin (1643-1713) traveller and merchant; envoy to Holland 1683
John Michael Wright (1617 - 1694)
His Excellency, High Imperial Commissioner Qiying [Ch’i-ying, Keying] (1787-1858)
Chinese 19th century unknown
Sir Henry Orland Chamberlain, 1st Baronet (1773-1829) diplomat
British 19th century unknown
Richard Weston, 1st Earl of Portland (1579-1635) diplomat, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Lord High Treasurer
Sir Anthony van Dyck (1599 - 1641)
19th century unknown
James Stanhope, 1st Earl Stanhope (1673-1721) army officer, diplomat and politician
Johan van Diest
Charles Stuart, Baron Stuart de Rothesay (1779-1845) diplomat
Denis Foyatier (1793 - 1863)
Luncheon at the British Embassy, Tokyo, 16 February 1983
David Hockney (1937 - )
Portrait of a Diplomat
Jane Hawkins (1841 - 1904)
Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive of Plassey (1725-1774) army officer and Governor of Bengal
Nathaniel Dance-Holland (1735 - 1811)
Francesco Bartolozzi (1727 - 1815)
Percy Clinton Sydney Smythe, 6th Viscount Strangford (1780-1855) diplomat
Alfred, Count d' Orsay (1801 - 1852)
Sir Thomas Burnet (1694-1753) judge
Allan Ramsay (1713 - 1784)
John, II Faber (1684 - 1756)
Jean Gilbert Victor Fialin, duc de Persigny (1808-1872) French politician and diplomat
Alfred, Count d' Orsay (1801 - 1852)
Sir George Hamilton Seymour (1797-1880) diplomat
Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller (1793 - 1865)
Sir Robert Murray Keith (1730-1795) diplomat and army officer
Nathaniel Dance-Holland (1735 - 1811)
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Sir George Russell Clerk (1874-1951) diplomat [identity uncertain]
Albert Smith
Sir Dudley Digges (1582/3-1639) politican, judge and diplomat
British 17th century unknown
The Grand Staircase at the New Foreign Office
British 19th century unknown
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