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Ambassador to Italy
Ambassador to Constantinople
Envoy to Russia
Diplomat
Consul General to Tunisia
Envoy to the Hague
Attache
Ambassador to Madrid
Ambassador to Tokyo
Ambassador
Ambassador to St Petersburg
Envoy to Prussia
Envoy to Vienna
Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire
Ambassador to Denmark
Ambassador to Vienna
Consul at Beirut
Consul General in Egypt
Envoy to Meckleburg-Strelitz
High Commissioner in Egypt
HM Minister to Denmark
Vice-Consul at Cronstadt, Russia
Ambassador to China
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Ambassador to Ankara
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Turkey Company Ambassador to Constantinople
Ambassador to France
Ambassador to the Soviet Union
Ambassadors-diplomats Results
Sir James Brydges, 8th Baron Chandos (1642-1714) Levant (Turkey) Company representative and Ambassador to Constantinople
British 17th century unknown
Evelyn Baring, 1st Earl of Cromer (1841-1917) British Agent & Consul-General in Egypt
John Singer, (After) Sargent
Samuel Melton Fisher (1860 - 1939)
Matthew Prior (1664-1721) poet, politician and diplomat
Sir Godfrey Kneller (1646 - 1723)
John, I Faber (c.1660 - 1721)
Thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh (1630-1673) Statesman
Sir Peter Lely (1618 - 1680)
Francis Leveson Bertie, 1st Viscount Bertie of Thame (1844-1919) Ambassador to Paris 1905-17
Lucie Lambert (1863 - 1916)
British Legation, Peking
William Simpson (1823 - 1899)
British Embassy in Paris from the Gardens
Johann Heinrich Luttringhausen (1783 - 1857)
Thomas Wilson (1525-1581) Secretary of State, diplomat and humanist; British Envoy to Portugal 1567-8
Flemish 16th century (after) unknown
Baron Gustaf Adam von Nolcken (1733-1813) Swedish Ambassador to Great Britain
John Downman (1750 - 1824)
Dinner Given by Grand Vizir to European Ambassador
Antonio, & Studio Guardi (1699 - 1760)
Sir Austen Henry Layard (1817-1894) Politician, Diplomat and Archaeologist
British 19th century unknown
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
Johann Zoffany (1733 - 1810)
Richard Earlom (1743 - 1822)
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 George Lloyd Hodges (1792-1862) soldier and diplomat
British 19th century unknown
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)
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
Sir Godfrey Kneller (1646 - 1723)
Jacobus Houbraken (1698 - 1780)
Audience of a European Ambassador with the Sultan
Antonio, & Studio Guardi (1699 - 1760)
Sir Anthony Mildmay (c.1549-1617)
Edward Harding (1755 - 1840)
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
unknown
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)
Thomas Wilson (1523/4-1581) [not as inscribed Nicholas Bacon] Secretary of State, diplomat and humanist
Federico Zuccaro (1540 - 1609)
Jacobus Houbraken (1698 - 1780)
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)
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