Wilkie Collins
(1824-1889), Novelist(William) Wilkie Collins
Sitter in 25 portraits
Collins is one of the best-loved Victorian novelists. Having trained as a lawyer, he abandoned this profession to write. His works include The Woman in White, 1860, and The Moonstone, 1868, an early 'detective' novel that influenced later writers including Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie. He was a regular contributor to his close friend Charles Dickens's magazine Household Words.
by Adriano Cecioni
watercolour, published in Vanity Fair 3 February 1872
NPG 2703
by Napoleon Sarony
albumen print, circa 1873-1874
NPG P497
by (Wilhelm Augustus) Rudolf Lehmann
oil on canvas, 1880
NPG 3333
Group including Clarkson Stanfield, Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins and Augustus Leopold Egg
after Unknown photographer
photogravure, (1857)
NPG x45067
by Cundall, Downes & Co
albumen print, 1859-1865
NPG x6322
by John & Charles Watkins
albumen carte-de-visite, 1860s
NPG Ax11943
by Cundall, Downes & Co
albumen carte-de-visite, 1860-1865
NPG Ax7517
by Herbert Watkins
albumen carte-de-visite, early 1860s
NPG x6324
by Herbert Watkins
albumen carte-de-visite, early 1860s
NPG x6325
by Cundall, Downes & Co
albumen carte-de-visite, 1860-1865
NPG Ax16234
published by Hughes & Edmonds
albumen print, published 1876
NPG Ax132899
by Elliott & Fry
chlorobromide print on cream card mount, 1878
NPG x127424
by Elliott & Fry
albumen carte-de-visite, 1878
NPG Ax18229
by Elliott & Fry, published by Ogden's
bromide cigarette card, 1878, published circa 1894-1907
NPG x197042
by Lock & Whitfield, published by Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington
woodburytype, published 1881
NPG Ax17631
by Lock & Whitfield
woodburytype on paper mount, 1881 or before
NPG x6326
by John Jabez Edwin Mayall
albumen cabinet card, 1881-1885
NPG x4183
Various writers, historians and philanthropists
by and after Elliott & Fry
bromide print, 1890s
NPG Ax139908
Wilkie Collins ('Men of the Day, No. 39.')
by Adriano Cecioni
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 3 February 1872
NPG D43521
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