Early Victorian Portraits Catalogue

George Thompson (1804-1878), Slavery abolitionist

A painting by G. Evans was exhibited RA, 1842 (284), engraved by C. Turner, published G. Evans, 1842 (example in NPG); a bust by S. J. B. Haydon was exhibited RA, 1847 (1375); a woodcut, after a photograph by C. Braithwaite of Leeds, was published ILN, LXXIII (1878), 377.


This extended catalogue entry is from the out-of-print National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue: Richard Ormond, Early Victorian Portraits, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1973, and is as published then. For the most up-to-date details on individual Collection works, we recommend reading the information provided in the Search the Collection results on this website in parallel with this text.