Later Victorian Portraits Catalogue

Self-portraits
By other artists
Photographs

Self-portraitsback to top

c.1850
Oil on canvas; see NPG 5183.

1889
Oil on canvas, 345 x 297mm oval, head-and-shoulders, near-profile to right; Aberdeen AG, ABDAG004331.

By other artistsback to top

1864
Oil on canvas by John Edgar Williams, half-length to front, seated at easel with paintbrush in hand, with W.F. Witherington and Patrick MacDowell; untraced; offered to NPG 1936 (when attributed to W.P. Frith), see NPG NoA (Pickersgill). Exh. RA 1864 (317).
Pencil drawing, 305 x 229mm, by ‘C.M.’ after the oil, showing only Pickersgill, inscr. upper right ‘F.R. Pickersgill. R.A. / From Group by J. Edgar / Williams in R.A. 1864’ and signed and dated lower right ‘CM[?] 15. iii 1911.’; NPG D6552.

1881
Pen and ink drawing, 306 x 444mm, by (Edward) Linley Sambourne for Royal Academy Banquet at Burlington House., a comic take on William Salter’s The Waterloo Banquet, signed and dated Apr. 1881, head only, second from right, standing in back row of RAs; Aberdeen AG, ABDAG003898. Repr. Punch, 7 May 1881, p.206; Gould 2004, p.154, fig.122; McMaster 2008, p.70, fig.18, McMaster 2009, p.42, fig.25; and Ormond 2010, p.83, fig.30.
See also Alma-Tadema, Ansdell, Armitage, Barlow, Boehm, Boughton,
, Calderon, Cope, Faed, Fildes, Frith, Goodall, Herkomer, Hodgson, Holl, Horsley, Leighton, Marks, Millais, Orchardson, Pettie, Poynter, Prinsep, Sant, Thornycroft, Watts, Woolner, Yeames.

1882
Pen and ink drawing, 317 x 419mm, by (Edward) Linley Sambourne for Saturday Review of the Royal Academy.– The March Past., signed and dated Apr. 1882, half-length, facing front, with large hat and walking stick, second from left in the front row of Academy ‘troops’; coll. Juliet McMaster. Engr. by Swain repr. Punch, 6 May 1882, p.206; McMaster 2008, p.71, fig.20; and McMaster 2009, p.46, fig.27.
See also Alma-Tadema, Ansdell, Barlow, Boehm, Boughton, Calderon, Cope, Faed, Fildes, Frith, Goodall, Herkomer , Hodgson, Holl, Horsley, Leighton, Marks, Millais, Orchardson, Pettie, Poynter, Prinsep, Sant, Watts, Woolner.

publ. 1883
Drawing by (Edward) Linley Sambourne for Royal Academy May-Pole Dance., signed and dated Apr. 1883, head-and-shoulders, profile to left, dancing with others at the bottom of the maypole; untraced. Engr. by Swain repr. Punch,12 May 1883, p.218; McMaster 2008, p.72, fig.26; and McMaster 2009, p.56, fig.33.
See also Alma-Tadema, Ansdell, Barlow, Boehm, Boughton, Calderon, Cope, Faed, Fildes, Frith, Goodall, Herkomer, Hodgson, Holl, Horsley, Leighton, Marks, Millais, Orchardson, Pettie, Poynter, Prinsep, Sant, Watts, Woolner, Yeames.

publ. 1884
Drawing by (Edward) Linley Sambourne for Fancy Dress at the Royal Academy; or, Men of Mark in Costumes of Their Own Design., three-quarter-length, almost profile to right, wearing large peaked cap labelled ‘Keeper’ (he was then Keeper of the RA Schools); untraced. Engr. by Swain repr. Punch, 24 May 1884, p.250; McMaster 2008, p.73, fig.28; and McMaster 2009, p.58, fig.35.
See also Alma-Tadema, Ansdell, Barlow, Boehm, Boughton, Calderon, Cope, Faed, Fildes, Frith, Goodall, Herkomer, Hodgson, Holl, Horsley, Leighton, Marks, Millais, Orchardson, Pettie, Poynter, Prinsep, Sant, Watts, Woolner, Yeames.

1889
Pencil sketch by Lawrence Alma-Tadema, 20 Feb. 1889, head-and-shoulders, profile to right, in margin of Report of the Special Committee of the RA; untraced. Ref. Sotheby’s, 25 Oct. 1977 (25, in parcel of sketches of various Academicians, not ill.).
See also Armitage, Boehm, Fildes, Frith, Marks, Millais, Sant, W. H. Thornycroft.

Photographsback to top

c.1857
Photograph by John Watkins, half-length to right; repr. as engr. ‘Associates of the R.A.’, ILN, 2 May 1857, p.419.

publ. 1859
Albumen print, possibly a self-portrait with his wife Mary Noorouz Elizabeth Hook, whole-length, almost profile to left, seated reading; colls BL, London, shelf mark 1753.B.29; and Getty Images, 3091790. Repr. The Sunbeam: A Photographic Magazine, part 2, 1859 (where captioned ‘Sunshine and Shade’, apparently by Pickersgill).

c.1863-4
Albumen print by David Wilkie Wynfield; see NPG P82.

c.1865
Albumen print by Ernest Edwards, whole-length to left, standing leaning on table, feet crossed; The Rob Dickins Coll., Watts G., Compton, COMWG2008.2265. Repr. Reeve & Walford 1863–7, vol.4, Nov. 1865, no.29, p.75; and Maas 1984, p.48, no.78.

1860s
Albumen carte-de-visite by John & Charles Watkins, head-and-shoulders vignette to right, balding at top of head, bearded; colls NPG Ax14837 and NPG Ax28943; V&A, London, Ph.591-1885; and The Rob Dickins Coll., Watts G., Compton, COMWG2008.206, COMWG2008.4393 and COMWG2008.1975 (83 x 57mm, oval mount).

Albumen carte-de-visite by Maull & Polybank, whole-length to front, standing, arms folded, ankles crossed, beside plinth and curtain; colls NPG Ax7574; V&A, London, x.744/25c; and Bristol CMAG, album I, MB7227.

Albumen print by Universal Photographic Co., whole-length to right, wearing hat and pale-coloured robe; The Rob Dickins Coll., Watts G., Compton, COMWG2008.203.

c.1882
Woodburytype print by Lock & Whitfield, half-length to right; colls NPG x12744 and NPG Ax17692; V&A, London, x.551; and The Rob Dickins Coll., Watts G., Compton, COMWG2008.1000 and COMWG2008.2166. Repr. Cooper 1876–83, ser. 6, 1882, p.36; and The Year’s Art 1888, p.88.

Platinum print by Bryan Hook, half-length, almost profile to left, hands folded on lap; in Silverbeck Album, priv. coll., p.3.


Undated photographs

Carte-de-visite, 102 x 64mm, by unidentified photographer, head-and-shoulders, almost profile to right, bald on top, bearded, wearing dark jacket; The Rob Dickins Coll., Watts G., Compton, COMWG2008.204.

Carte-de-visite by Elliott & Fry; V&A, London, x727/7b.

Dr Jan Marsh