Later Victorian Portraits Catalogue

Self-portraits
By other artists
Photographs

Self-portraitsback to top

1848
Chalk drawing, inscr. 'JD Watson se Bpse [?] del 1848', half-length to front; coll. Castle Hotel, Conwy. Ref. Sotheby’s, 20 Nov. 1979 (43); repr. Houfe 1979, p.768.

1860s
Pen and ink drawing, whole-length, profile to left, on horseback in group of three; Birket Foster Sketchbook, priv. coll., f.13

Pen and ink drawing, head-and-shoulders, to front sketching, centre in group of three; Birket Foster Sketchbook, priv. coll., f.7.


Possible self-portrait

1881
Oil on canvas, inscr. and dated 'JDW 1891', three-quarter-length, profile to left, white hair, wearing brown coat and hat, as historical figure in multi-figure mural; coll. Castle Hotel, Conwy.

By other artistsback to top

c.1850s
Pencil drawing by unidentified artist, head-and-shoulders, almost profile to left, looking to front, with long hair and wearing cravat; coll. Castle Hotel, Conwy.

1862
Watercolour by Frederick Walker, head-and-shoulders to front; Manchester AG, 1925.81.

1870s
Painted plaster bust by Edward. E. Geflowski; coll. Castle Hotel, Conwy. Repr. (on mantel in lounge) at www.castlewales.co.uk.

c.1880s
Oil on canvas by unidentified artist, bust, turned to right, slightly profile to right facing front, with white hair and long moustache, holding paintbrush in right hand; coll. Castle Hotel, Conwy.

Photographsback to top

c.1863–4
Albumen print by David Wilkie Wynfield; see NPG P85.

Albumen print, 213 x 162mm, by David Wilkie Wynfield, half-length to left, in costume with white ruff collar, locket in hand; colls NPG x20698; and RPS, Bath, 2808p.

Albumen print, 215 x 166 mm, by David Wilkie Wynfield, half-length, to front, in black cape with white lace collar; RA, London, 03/6714.

c.1864
Albumen cartes-de-visite by Elliott & Fry, two known poses:
(a) three-quarter-length to left, sitting on a table; NPG Ax14973.
(b) head-and-shoulders, profile to left; NPG Ax28972 and NPG Ax131913).

c.1864-6
Albumen carte-de-visite by unidentified photographer, almost whole-length to front, with (Myles) Birket Foster; Birket Foster cartes album, priv. coll.

1860s
Albumen cartes-de-visite by John & Charles Watkins, two known poses:
(a) head-and-shoulders, almost profile to right; in Birket Foster cartes album, priv. coll.
(b) half-length to right; RWS. Ref. Courtauld Photographic Survey in NPG SB (Watson). Head-and-shoulders vignette, 89 x 57mm; The Rob Dickins Coll., Watts G., Compton, COMWG2008.1402; and Birket Foster cartes album, priv. coll. Repr. Maas 1984, p.142.

Albumen prints by unidentified photographer (possibly William Foster?), mostly taken in Surrey, starting roughly in 1862, six known poses:
(a) whole-length, to front, hands on hips, first on left standing in group, with (Myles) Birket Foster, at a costume party in the garden at ‘The Hill’, Surrey; William Foster ‘Scrap book’, priv. coll., f.5.
(b) whole-length to right, second from right seated in group with (Myles) Birket Foster, at a costume party in the garden at ‘The Hill’, Surrey; William Foster ‘Scrap book’, priv. coll., f.6. Repr. Reynolds 1984, p.118.
(c) whole-length, profile to right, in costume fencing or duelling, second from left in group with (Myles) Birket Foster, outside ‘The Hill’; William Foster ‘Scrap book’, priv. coll., f.8.
(d) whole-length, profile to left, playing mandolin (?) in group with (Myles) Birket Foster, seated, front row, on right; William Foster ‘Scrap book’, priv. coll., f.7.
(e) whole-length, to front, in costume, hand on hip, leaning against a door outside ‘The Hill’; William Foster ‘Scrap book’, priv. coll., f.10 (upper)
(f) whole-length, to front, standing outside ‘The Hill’ wearing costume, first on right in group with (Myles) Birket Foster; William Foster ‘Scrap book’, priv. coll., f.10 (lower).

c.1860s
Albumen carte-de-visite by unidentified photographer, half-lenth, profile to left, seated to left, wearing checked suit; Birket Foster cartes album, priv. coll.

c.1871-77
Carte-de-visite 92 x 57mm, by W.& D.Downey, inscr. ‘Watson R.A’, half-length to front wearing dark velvet jacket, right hand to ear, left arm across chest; NPG x136796.

before 1890
Albumen print by unidentified photographer, half-length to front; untraced. Repr. The Year’s Art 1890, facing p.172.

Albumen print by Fradelle & Young, three-quarter-length, profile to left; untraced. Repr. MA, p.179; as engr. (head-and-shoulders, almost profile to left) Graphic, 1

Magdalene Keaney