In 1838 a bust and portrait of him were commissioned for the Lord's Pavilion and he laid the foundation stone of the tennis court at the ground the same year. The portrait, by Henry Dawe, is still in the MCC collection; a mezzotint of it was purchased by the National Portrait Gallery in 1966.Portrait of Benjamin Aislabie, Lord's, MCC. Retrieved 2019-12-30.Benjamin Aislabie, National Portrait Gallery. Retrieved 2019-12-30. The painting and one other of Aislabie, which were hanging in the Long Room at Lord's, were removed from display in June 2020 due to his ownership of slaves.Hoult N (2020) Exclusive: MCC removes Benjamin Aislabie artwork from public display due to slave-owning past, The Daily Telegraph, 2020-06-10. Retrieved 2020-07-10.Dobell G (2020) MCC to review art collection amid slavery links of former secretary, CricInfo, 2020-06-29. Retrieved 2022-04-08.
