VISUAL ARTISTS NOMINATED BY THE PUBLIC DISCUSSED BY THE BANKNOTE CHARACTER ADVISORY COMMITTEE TO APPEAR ON THE NEXT £20 NOTE The list below sets out a list of 67 characters that were discussed by the Banknote Character Advisory Committee at the first shortlisting meeting. Where characters were discussed both within a pair and individually they are named separately. The five characters that were on the final shortlist that the Committee presented to the Governor of the Bank of England are highlighted in red. J.M.W Turner was the character selected J.M.W TURNER Inigo Jones Barbara Hepworth Jacob Epstein Charlie Chaplin James McNeill Whistler Josiah Wedgwood Jane Drew William Hogarth John Adam and Robert Adam Alec Issigonis John Baskerville Alexander McQueen and Louise Wilson John Constable Alfred Hitchcock John Everett Millais Alfred Hitchcock and Alma Reville John Grierson Alice Seeley Harris John Ruskin Anthony Caro John Soane Anthony Van Dyck Joseph Wright of Derby Augustus John and Gwen John Joshua Reynolds Augustus Pugin Julia Margaret Cameron Beatrix Potter L. S. Lowry Bert Hardy Lucian Freud Capability Brown Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger Carol Reed Pauline Baynes Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Margaret Richard Attenborough Macdonald Mackintosh Richard Hamilton Charles Rennie Mackintosh Ronald Moody Christopher Dresser Samuel Palmer Clarice Cliff Sarah Losh Derek Jarman Stanley Spencer Edward Johnston Thomas Gainsborough Edwin Luytens Thomas Lawrence Elisabeth Frink Walter Richard Sickert Elizabeth Wilbraham William Blake Francis Bacon William Caxton George Stubbs William Henry Fox Talbot Gertrude Jekyll William Kent Grinling Gibbons William Morris Gwen John William Morris and May Morris Harry Beck Henry Moore .