Later Victorian Portraits Catalogue

By other artists
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exh. 1874
Portrait by Matthew White Ridley; untraced. Exh. RA 1874 (696).

publ. 1880
Design by Herbert Johnson for A Savage Club Dinner – A Portrait Group, half-length, profile to right, seated at extreme left; untraced. Wood-engr. by unidentified engraver repr. Graphic, 6 Mar. 1880, pp.356–7 (double-page ill.); and Watson 1907, facing p.143 (where entitled ‘The Gladstone Night’ and said to have taken place at the Pall Mall restaurant, Regent St).
See also Armitage, Frith, Gregory, Herkomer, Horsley, P.R. Morris, Orchardson.

1882
Watercolour by Thomas Walter Wilson, The Members of the Institute [of Painters in Water-colour] Touching Day, 1882, examining a sheet in open portfolio, centre of group; untraced. Probably exh. IPWC 1883 (342a); repr. Graphic, 28 Apr. 1883, p.422 (with key, Thomas no.35); and Christie’s, 9 May 1984, p.1.
See also Boughton, Clausen, Crane, Herkomer, Hayes, Herkomer
, Hine, Lucas, Parsons, Tenniel, J.W. Waterhouse.

publ. 1882
Wood-engr. by J.R. Brown, The Engraving Studio, half-length, profile to left, seated at right of end table; repr. Graphic, Christmas number, 1882, extra supplement.

Wood-engr. by Charles Roberts, half-length, seated to left, with woodblock and engraver’s tools and glass; cutting coll. NPG SB (W.L. Thomas). Probably an illustration to Hatton 1882, p.232.

1892
Watercolour drawing by (William) Walker Hodgson: see NPG 5900.

1894
Watercolour drawing by Leslie Ward (‘Spy’), whole-length, standing to left with hands behind back; untraced.
Chromolithograph repr. Vanity Fair, 13 Dec. 1894, p.399 (captioned ‘The Graphics’); copy coll. NPG D44729.


Undated portraits

Charcoal and watercolour drawing by ‘R.I. Small’ (?W. Small RI), head-and-shoulders; untraced; coll. Mrs M.E. Noel-Thomas, Kent, 1967 (ref. NPG Portrait Index).

Herkomergravure print by Hubert von Herkomer, head-and-shoulders to left; BM, London (ref. O’Donoghue 1908–22, vol.6 [1925], p.406 [1]).

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publ. 1890
Photograph by P.C. Mora of Brighton, head-and-shoulders to right; repr. in halftone ILN, 13 Dec. 1890, p.743; The Year’s Art 1892, facing p.118; The Year’s Art 1894, facing p.30 (where captioned ‘from a photograph by Debenham & Co.’); [1] MA, 1900, p.96 (obits); ILN, 27 Oct. 1900, p.597 (obits); and Daily Graphic, 18 Oct.1900, p.8 (obits).
Wood-engr. by ‘PN’ after Mora repr. ILN, 14 May 1892, p.600.
Wood-engr. by unidentified engr. after Mora repr. Graphic, 20 Oct. 1900, p.582 (obits).
The Debenham/Mora photograph is the most reproduced image of W.L. Thomas and the one used in the obituaries.


Footnote
1) The Year’s Art 1894 credits the photograph as by Debenham & Co. but in the ILN (1890) and also later reproductions of the photograph, Mora of Brighton is credited. The photographic studio at 127 Western Road, Brighton was owned by Arthur Debenham & Co. between 1889–91, and by P.C. Mora from 1891.

Carol Blackett-Ord