George Lethbridge Saunders (1807–1863) was an English painter. He became a renowned painter of portraits and miniatures in England, exhibiting at the Royal Academy of Arts from 1829 to 1839 and the Free Society of British Artists from 1851 to 1853. By 1840, he moved to the United States, where he exhibited his work at the Apollo Association in New York City and the Artists' Fund Society in Philadelphia from 1840 to 1843. He also worked in Boston, Baltimore, Richmond, Savannah, Columbia and Charleston. During his time in the American South, he did portraits of Confederate politicians and generals as well as members of wealthy families like John Carnan Ridgely (1790–1867) of the Hampton plantation or Charles S. Gilmore (1817–1866) of Baltimore. He returned to England in 1851.