Portraiture is to most sculptors what steam is to machines, for it sets them in motion and it keeps them going. They would soon be idle for want of it. But even if the great majority of them can turn out attractive portrait busts, it does not necessarily follow that art gains much thereby. Indeed, there are many who contend that art loses much, for it is a rare thing to meet with a sculptor who can satisfy his sitters and their relatives and yet produce such good work as commands admiration both by the freedom of its style and by the subtle and fearless truth of the character revealed by it. Without these qualities of art a portrait bust is not worth much more attention than a good photograph. That most English sculptors are apt to give insufficient attention to this fact is well known. — The Studio

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  • Warren Hastings
  • Major General Sir Henry Havelock (Behnes)
  • Sidney Herbert (Walker)
  • Rowland Hill (Ford)
  • Rowland Hill (Theed)
  • Sir Rowland Hill (Brock)
  • R.G. Hill-Snook
  • William Huskisson (Gibson)
  • Sir John Jenkins
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  • John First Lord Lawrence, Viceroy of India< (Woolner)/a>
  • Lt. Col William Martin Leake (Behnes)
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  • Captain Edward Mowbray Lyons
  • Sir John Alexander MacDonald
  • Admiral Sir Pultney Malcolm
  • Lieutenant-General Sir John Moore (Bacon)
  • Sir Thomas More (Daymond)
  • Charles James Napier (Adams)
  • Charles James Napier
  • General William Francis Patrick Napier (Adams)
  • Horatio Lord Nelson (Baily)
  • Brigadier General John Nicholson (Brock)
  • Daniel O'Connell (Foley)
  • John Oswald (Marochetti)
  • Henry John Temple, Viscount Palmerston (Noble)
  • Sir Robert Peel (Noble)
  • Sir Robert Peel (Manchester)
  • William Pitt the Younger (Westmacott)
  • Cecil Rhodes (Derwent Wood)
  • Sir Stamford Raffles (Woolner)
  • Sir Cowasfee Jehanghir Readimoney (Woolner)
  • Sir Lakshmiswar Bahadur Singh, Maharajah of Darbhanga (Ford)
  • Herbert Stewart
  • Captain Henry Langhorne Thompson, C. B.
  • Queen Victoria (Gallery)
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  • The Wellington Monument, St. Paul's (Stevens)
  • William Wilberforce (Armstead or Philip)
  • Sir Guy Fleetwood Wilson (Hampton)
  • Sir John Woodburn (John)

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