Sir William Quiller Orchardson (1832-1910), Portrait and subject painter
Later Victorian Portraits Catalogue
Sitter associated with 18 portraits
Artist associated with 5 portraits
Artist; born and trained in Edinburgh; settled in London, 1862, where he enjoyed a highly successful career as a painter of subject pictures and portraits; elected RA, 1877. Orchardson became best known for depictions of the history and manners of the eighteenth century and Regency periods and for his dramatic interpretations of the anxieties of contemporary upper class life.
Unknown man, formerly known as Sir William Quiller Orchardson
by Sir William Quiller Orchardson
oil on canvas, circa 1860
NPG 3166
Sir William Quiller Orchardson
by Henry Weigall
oil on canvas, circa 1878-1881
NPG 2117
Private View of the Old Masters Exhibition, Royal Academy, 1888
by Henry Jamyn Brooks
oil on canvas, 1889
On display in Room 21 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 1833
The Royal Academy Conversazione, 1891
by G. Grenville Manton
pen, ink and gouache, 1891
NPG 2820
Selecting Committee, Royal Academy, circa 1892
by Reginald Cleaver
pen and ink, circa 1892
NPG 4245
Sir William Quiller Orchardson
by Sir Leslie Ward
pencil and watercolour, published in Vanity Fair 24 March 1898
NPG 5005
Sir William Quiller Orchardson
by Elliott & Fry
albumen carte-de-visite, 1860s
NPG Ax14873
Sir William Quiller Orchardson
by Elliott & Fry
albumen carte-de-visite, 1860s
NPG Ax28958
Sir William Quiller Orchardson
by Elliott & Fry
albumen cabinet card, 1880s?
NPG x12617
Sir William Quiller Orchardson
by Lock & Whitfield, published by Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington
woodburytype, published 1882
NPG Ax17662
Sir William Quiller Orchardson
by Ralph Winwood Robinson, published by C. Whittingham & Co
platinum print, published 1892
NPG x7382
Sir William Quiller Orchardson
by Ernest Herbert ('E.H.') Mills
bromide print on grey card mount, 1900s
NPG x12618
Sir William Quiller Orchardson
by Frederic G. Hodsoll
glossy sepia bromide print on card mount, 1902
NPG Ax25159
Ellen (née Moxon), Lady Orchardson; Sir William Quiller Orchardson
by E. Smerdon
bromide print, 1910
NPG Ax26049
Sir William Quiller Orchardson
by Augustin Mongin
etching, circa 1882
NPG D21527
Sir William Quiller Orchardson
by Robert Walker Macbeth, after Sir William Quiller Orchardson
etching, exhibited 1893 (1890)
NPG D32124
Sir William Quiller Orchardson
by Lock & Whitfield, published by Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington
woodburytype, published 1882
NPG x134569
Key to Private View of the Old Masters Exhibition, Royal Academy, 1888
after Henry Jamyn Brooks
photograph, 1919 or after
NPG D42236
All paintings by this artist on the BBC Your Paintings website
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