Later Victorian Portraits Catalogue

Self-portraits
By other artists
Photographs
Undated photographs

Self-portraitsback to top

1877
Oil on canvas, 610 x 533mm, head-and-shoulders, turned slightly to right; family coll., 1990. Exh. Solomon J. Solomon RA, Ben Uri AG, London, 1990 (1); repr. Pery 1990, no.1 (as ‘Self-portrait aged 17’).
Another version, oil, 546 x 451mm, showing palette; untraced; probably that offered for sale at Christie’s SK four times during 1980–81.

1882
Oil on canvas, 495 x 395mm, Artistic Reflections or Reflections of the Artist, half-length, half-profile to left, seen in mirror behind portrait of his wife; untraced. Exh. Hal O’Niam G., 1985; ref. Pery 1990, p.29; repr. Sotheby’s, 25 Apr. 1978 (134).

c.1883–4
Pen and ink drawing; see NPG 3044.

c.1884–5
Oil on canvas, For a Holy Family; untraced. Exh. NEAC 1886 (48). It is believed this includes a self-portrait, as in the study above.

?1890s
Chalks drawing, signed ‘SJS’, head-and-shoulders, full-face, wearing stiff collar; untraced. Repr. MA, 1894, p.116.

c.1896
Oil on canvas, 1015 x 775mm, three-quarter-length, full-face, standing holding palette and brushes, wearing grey jacket against dark background; untraced; formerly with David Messum G. Exh. Solomon J. Solomon RA, Ben Uri AG, London, 1990 (6); repr. Christie’s, 23 Mar. 1984 (99); Sotheby’s, 13 May 1987 (51); Wortley 1988, no.50; and Pery 1990, no.6.


Undated self-portrait
‘Self-portrait with cap’; untraced. Ref. Pery 1990, p.31

By other artistsback to top

1891
Pencil or chalk drawing by Leonard Raven-Hill, signed and dated, whole-length, standing with brush and palette painting nude figure in The Judgment of Paris; untraced. Repr. AJ, 1891, p.188.

before 1893
Portrait by Pierre [Prince] Troubetzkoy; untraced. Exh. RSPP 1893 (79).

before 1896
Portrait by Theodore Blake Wirgman; untraced. Exh. RSPP 1896 (173).

1897
Pencil or chalks drawing by Arthur Garrett, whole-length, profile to left, standing on scaffold steps painting mural in Royal Exchange, London, with model in historical costume; untraced. Repr. MA, 1898, p.94.

c.1900s
Pen and ink caricature drawing by Harry Furniss; see NPG 3515.

1908
Oil on canvas, 2972 x 6223mm, by Hubert von Herkomer, The Council of the Royal Academy, half-length, profile to right, third from left in multi-figure group; Tate, N02481. Repr. Herkomer 1910–11, vol.2, facing p.64; and Mills 1923, facing p.298.
Photogravure, 335 x 710mm, signed by artist and sitters, publ. Franz Hanfstangel; ref. Bonhams, 29 Mar. 1990 (171).
See also Brock, Gregory, Herkomer, Poynter.

1909
Charcoal and chalk drawing, 711 x 483mm, by H.T. Wosdch, signed, inscr. and dated; untraced. Ref. Christie’s SK, 25 Nov. 1976 (81, not ill.).

Photographsback to top

?1880s
Albumen cabinet print by Elliott & Fry, head-and-shoulders vignette, full-face, wearing bow tie; The Rob Dickins Coll, Watts G., Compton, COMWG2008.4314. Repr. Maas 1984, no.89, p.52.

publ. 1892
Sepia carbon print, 140 x 94mm, by W. & D. Downey, nearly half-length, looking left, wearing high collar and tie with large knot; repr. Downey & Downey 1890–94, ser.3, 1892, p.70; engr. by ‘PN’ repr. ILN, 22 Feb. 1896, p.227; and Review of Reviews 1896, p.201; colls NPG Ax16001; The Rob Dickins Coll., Watts G., Compton, COMWG2008.3663; and TimeLife Archive Coll. (where stamped ‘CAB POR GAL VOL 3’).

1893
Photograph by unidentified photographer, head-and-shoulders, half-profile to left, wearing wing collar and tie with large knot; repr. The Year’s Art 1893, facing p.112.

before 1896
Photographs by Hayman Seleg Mendelssohn, two known poses:
(a) head-and-shoulders, profile to left, wearing stiff wing collar with elaborately knotted tie; engr. by ‘C.H’ repr. MA, 1896, p.251; and Windsor Magazine, vol.3, Jan.–June 1896, p.541.
(b) head-and-shoulders, full-face, left hand raised to forehead; repr. Temple Magazine, 1897–8, p.529.

1899
Carbon print, 227 x 315mm, by Fradelle & Young, in multi-figure group at a banquet in honour of Lawrence Alma-Tadema at the Whitehall Rooms, London, 4 Nov. 1899 (presence confirmed on sheet of over 100 signatures); NPG x19022. Repr. MA, 1900, p.137 (with signatures insert); and Swanson 1990, p.85.
See also Alma-Tadema, Boughton, Brock, Clausen, J. Collier, Crane, East, E.O. Ford, Frampton, Gregory, Hacker, Lucas, Parsons, Sant, Spielmann, Thornycroft, A. Webb.

?1890s
Postcard print, 140 x 89mm for Rotary Photographic Co., nearly whole-length, with sitter’s facsimile signature below lower edge, three-quarter-length, standing with outsize palette and brushes; The Rob Dickins Coll., Watts G., Compton, COMWG2008.372 and COMWG2008.373. See also postcard print; Time Life Archive Coll. (where dimensions given as ‘11.2 x 17.8ins’). See above, ‘By other artists, c.1900s’ for a caricature possibly drawn in part from this image.

1904
Photograph by unidentified photographer, whole-length, standing with wife on garden steps at Tadworth Court, Surrey; repr. Pery 1990, p.18.

1906
Photograph by unidentified photographer, head only visible in group with wife and three children at Birchington, Kent; repr. Pery 1990, p.18.

1900s
Albumen cabinet card, 145 x 98mm, by Elliott & Fry, head-and-shoulders, turned slightly to left, nearly full-face, wearing stiff collar and tie with white spots; NPG x22650 (inscr. ‘Sincerely yours’ with sitter’s signature). Repr. as oval vignette London 1907–9, p.51.

Photograph by unidentified photographer, half-length, profile to left, seated holding brush and palette; repr. Phillips [1933], frontispiece.

1910s or later?
Photograph by unidentified photographer, three-quarter-length, profile to left, standing, looking down at palette, in studio with portly bearded sitter and portrait of same on easel; repr. Jewish Artists of Great Britain, exh. cat., Belgrave G., London and Cartwright Hall, Bradford, 1978, p.11.

1914
Monotone photographs by Grove and Boulton, the RA Selection Committee, Apr. 1914, three known poses:
(a) 98 x 204mm, whole-length, seated third from left, with 10 other artists; RA, London, 08/2671
(b) 99 x 204, whole-length, seated third from left, committee photographed from opposite angle, 11 others visible with the addition of W. Lamb (Sec); RA, London, 08/2669
(c) 99 x 204mm, slightly variant pose to above image, taken moments apart; ref. Conway Library, Courtauld Inst., London.
See also Lucas, Poynter, Thornycroft.

1916
Photograph by unidentified photographer, whole-length, wearing Lt.-Col. uniform, standing on steps at 18 Hyde Park Gate; repr. Pery 1990, p.18.

1917
Bromide print, 146 x 98mm, by Walter Stoneman for James Russell & Sons on behalf of NPR, nearly half-length, profile to left, wearing military uniform and cap; NPG Ax39203. Repr. Phillips [1933], facing p.128.

1920
Photographs by Walter Stoneman for NPR, two known poses:
(a) whole-plate glass neg., half-length, torso to left, looking to front, wearing dark suit and bowtie; NPG x66996.
(b) bromide print, 160 x 115mm, head-and-shoulders to left, nearly full-face, wearing bowtie; NPG x66997.

Photograph by unidentified photographer, nearly whole-length, seated with wife in canoe on river Thames; repr. Pery 1990, p.19.

Undated photographsback to top

Photograph by unidentified photographer, whole-length, seated in studio at 18 Hyde Park Gate, right leg over arm of chair; repr. Pery 1990, p.19.

Photograph by unidentified photographer, whole-length, half-profile to left, standing, looking down at palette in studio with ?allegorical figure subject on easel; repr. in unidentified publication (cutting in NPG SB [Solomon]).

Photograph by unidentified photographer, whole-length profile to left, wearing riding boots and breeches, holding palette and standing beside easel with oil painting of semi-draped female; autograph album (‘Celebrities’), William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, UCLA (MS.1950.006).

Dr Jan Marsh