Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894), Novelist and essayist
Sitter associated with 22 portraits
Author and traveller; abandoned engineering for the law; wrote stories and essays, remarkable for their style, charm and humour. The author of such classics of the language as The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped and Treasure Island, Stevenson spent his last years in the South Sea Islands in search of health.
Unknown man, formerly known as Robert Louis Stevenson
by Unknown artist
chalk, 1880
NPG 2687
by Sir William Blake Richmond
oil on canvas, 1887
On display in Room 28 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 1028
by Augustus Saint-Gaudens
bronze relief, 1887
NPG 2349
by Notman of Boston
platinum print, 1890s
NPG P224
by Percy Frederick Seaton Spence
pencil, 1893
NPG 1184
by Allen Hutchinson
bronze head, 1893
On display in Room 28 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 2454
by John Moffat
albumen print, 1860-1879
NPG x32721
by Notman of Boston
albumen cabinet card, 1890s
NPG x39714
Henry Simele; Robert Louis Stevenson
by John Moffat
platinum print, 1891-1894
NPG x4627
(Samuel) Lloyd Osbourne; Charles, Count of Wurmbrand-Stuppach; Robert Louis Stevenson; Henry Simele
by John Moffat
platinum print, 1891-1894
NPG x4628
Robert Louis Stevenson and family
by J. Davis
albumen print, circa 1891
NPG x4630
by Henry Walter ('H. Walter') Barnett
postcard print, 1893
NPG x135632
by Mortimer Luddington Menpes
etching, 1879
NPG D6868
by Sprague & Co, after William Strang
ink-photo, published 26 January 1887
NPG D9957
by R.E.J. Bush
etching, 1892
NPG D6867
after Joseph Simpson
lithograph after a woodcut, 1902
NPG D9956
after Augustus Saint-Gaudens
photograph, 1929 or before (1887)
NPG D42134
Unknown man, formerly thought to be Robert Louis Stevenson
by Unknown artist
photogravure printing block, late 19th century
NPG D42651
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