Later Victorian Portraits Catalogue

By other artists
Photographs

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1874
Design by unidentified artist, head-and-shoulders, half-profile to left; untraced. Repr. as wood-engr. ILN, 9 May 1874, p.456 (to mark election as ARA). Mistakenly said (Quiney 1979, p.127) to be based on photograph by Abel Lewis (see below, ‘Photographs, mid-1870s’).

1881
Pen and ink, 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-and-shoulders, slightly profile to left, standing sixth from right at back of composition; 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, Pickersgill, Poynter, Prinsep, Sant, Thornycroft, Watts, Woolner, Yeames.

1887
Oil on canvas, 345 x 297mm oval, by John Pettie, signed, head-and-shoulders, near-profile to right, plain background; Aberdeen AG, ABDAG004102. Repr. Quiney 1979, p.230.

1889
Oil on canvas by Walter William Ouless; see NPG 6176.


Probably posthumous portrait
Limestone statue, approx. 1980mm high, by unidentified sculptor, possibly sitter’s son Frank Loughborough Pearson (1864–1947), whole-length, standing wearing academic gown, holding plan of cathedral; on easternmost buttress, south entrance porch, Truro Cathedral. Ref. Truro Cathedral Guide, 1949, p.21; repr. Quiney 1979, p.170.

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1861
Albumen print, 86 x 55mm, by Camille Silvy, 19 Oct. 1861, whole-length to front, looking to right, in dark coat and holding top hat; NPG Ax56047. Ref. Silvy Day Book, vol.5 (6101).

mid-1870s
Sepia albumen cartes-de-visite by Abel Lewis, Isle of Man, two known poses:
(a) 98 x 58mm, half-length, nearly full-face, looking left, eyeglasses dangling; colls RIBA Library Photographs Coll., London, 5893; and NPG x4974. Repr. Quiney 1979, p.127.
(b) full-face, looking right; repr. The Year’s Art 1888, facing p.72.
The photographs are most likely to date from c.1876, when the church Pearson had designed in 1871–2 for Kirkbradden, Man, was consecrated. A possible later date is 1883–4, when the tower and spire were added. The sitter looks older than in the 1874 engraving listed above.

publ. 1892
Platinum print, 198 x 150mm, by Ralph Winwood Robinson, half-length, half-profile to left, seated at desk with drawings; NPG x7384. Repr. Robinson [1982].

Dr Jan Marsh