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Gallery of Author Portraits
- Joseph Addison (1672-1719)
- Mark Akenside (1721-1770)
- Nicholas Amhurst (1697-1742)
- Christopher Anstey (1724-1805) with his daughter
- John Arbuthnot (1667-1735)
- Joanna Baillie (1762-1851)
- Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743-1825)
- James Beattie (1735-1803)
- Richard Bentley (1662-1742)
- George Berkeley (1685-1753)
- (Mary) Matilda Betham (1776-1852)
- Sir Richard Blackmore (1654-1729)
- Sir William Blackstone (1723-1780)
- Susanna Blamire (1747-1794)
- Robert Bloomfield (1766-1823)
- Henry St. John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke (1678-1751)
- James Boswell (1740-1795)
- John Boyle (1707-1762)
- Frances Brooke (1724-1789)
- Robert Burns (1759-1796)
- John Byrom (1692-1763)
- Richard Owen Cambridge (1717-1802)
- Thomas Campbell (1777-1844)
- Henry Carey (1687-1743)
- Elizabeth Carter (1717-1806)
- Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire (1757-1806)
- Susanna Centlivre (1669?-1723)
- Hester Mulso Chapone (1727-1801)
- "Death of Chatterton" (1794) by Edward Orme
- Lord Chesterfield (1694-1773)
- Charles Churchill (1732-1764)
- Colley Cibber (1671-1757)
- Thomas Cole (1726-1796)
- William Collins (1721-1759)
- William Congreve (1670-1729)
- Nathaniel Cotton (1705?-1788)
- Hannah Cowley (1743-1809)
- William Cowper (1731-1800)
- George Crabbe (1754-1832)
- Elizabeth Craven (née Berkeley) (1750-1828)
- Thomas D'Urfey (after Edward Gouge)
- Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802)
- Sneyd Davies (1709-1769)
- Daniel Defoe (1660?-1731)
- John Dennis (1658-1734)
- Charles Dibdin (1745-1814)
- William Dodd (1729-1777)
- George Bubb Dodington (1690/1-1762)
- Robert Dodsley (1704-1764)
- Stephen Duck (1705?-1756)
- Thomas Edwards (1699-1757)
- John Ellis (1698-1791)
- Henry Fielding (1707-1754)
- Anne Finch (1661-1720)
- Samuel Foote (1721-1777)
- David Garrick (1717-1779)
- John Gay (1685-1732)
- Oliver Goldsmith (1728?-1774)
- Richard Graves (1715-1804)
- Thomas Gray (1716-1771)
- Elizabeth Griffith (1727-1793)
- Henry Harington (1727-1816)
- James Harris (1709-1780)
- John Hawkesworth (1720-1773)
- John Hervey (1696-1743)
- Aaron Hill (1685-1750)
- John Hoadly (1711-1776), with Maurice Greene (seated)
- Thomas Holcroft (1745-1809)
- John Hoole (1727-1803)
- Anne Hunter (1741-1821) — (as The Pensive Muse, 1767)
- Richard Hurd (1720-1808)
- Benjamin Ibbot (1680-1725)
- Elizabeth Inchbald (1753-1821)
- Hildebrand Jacob (1692/3-1739)
- Soame Jenyns (1704-1787)
- Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
- George Keate (1729-1797)
- Lady Luxborough (1699-1756)
- George Granville (1666-1735)
- Nathaniel Lee (c.1650-1692)
- Sophia Lee (1750-1824)
- Charlotte Lennox (1730/31-1804)
- Lewis, Matthew Gregory (1775-1818)
- George Lyttelton (1709-1773)
- James Macpherson (1736-1796)
- Catherine Rebecca Grey, Lady Manners (1766?-1852)
- William Markham (1719-1807)
- William Mason (1725-1797)
- Robert Merry (1755-1798)
- William Julius Mickle (1735?-1788)
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762)
- Edward Moore (1712-1757)
- Hannah More (1745-1833)
- Arthur Murphy (1727-1805)
- Robert Craggs Nugent (1709-1788)
- John O'Keeffe (1747-1833)
- John Ogilvie (1732-1813)
- Amelia Alderson Opie (1769-1853)
- Thomas Parnell (1679-1718)
- Thomas Percy (1729-1811)
- John Philips (1676-1709)
- Laetitia Pilkington (1709?-1750)
- Hester Lynch Piozzi (1741-1821)
- Mary Pix (1666-1709)
- Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
- Beilby Porteus (1731-1809)
- Robert Potter(1721-1804)
- Matthew Prior (1664-1721)
- Sir William Pulteney (1684-1764)
- Allan Ramsay (1684-1758)
- Glocester Ridley (1702-1774)
- Mary Robinson (1756/7-1800)
- Elizabeth Rowe (née Singer) (1674-1737)
- Charles Sackville (1711-1769)
- Anna Seward (1742-1809)
- Thomas Seward (1708-1790)
- William Shenstone (1714-1763)
- Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816)
- Jonathan Shipley (1713-1788)
- Christopher Smart (1722-1771)
- Charlotte Smith (1749-1806)
- Tobias George Smollett (1721-1771)
- Joseph Spence (1699-1768)
- Sir Richard Steele (1672-1729)
- Joseph Stennett (1663-1713)
- George Alexander Stevens (1710-84), with Mrs Paul Sandby
- Benjamin Stillingfleet (1702-1771)
- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
- James Thomson (1700-1748)
- Thomas Tickell (1685-1740)
- Mary Tighe (1772-1810)
- Voltaire (1694-1778)
- Horace Walpole (1717-1797)
- Joseph Warton (1722-1800)
- Thomas Warton (1728-1790)
- Isaac Watts (1674-1748)
- Rev. Charles Wesley (1707-1788)
- Rev. John Wesley (1703-1791)
- Gilbert West (1703-1756)
- William Whitehead (1715-1785)
- Helen Maria Williams (1759-1827)
- Sir Charles Hanbury Williams (1708-1759)
- Ann Yearsley (1753-1806)
- Edward Young (1683-1765)