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- subject matching 'Regency Style - Men'
Regency style was characterised by greater distinction between the sexes, as men's dress became more sober and less subject to the extremes of fashion. This corresponded with the increasing informality of their attire and the abandonment of false hair and wigs. After Waterloo in 1815 however, there was a revival of interest in men's fashion as the officers returning from the Napoleonic wars took their place in civilian society. This was expressed in a form of dandyism with exaggerated echoes of military dress. In this group you can trace the development of menswear from 1792 to 1830 as represented in portraits from the Gallery's collection.
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
by Juan Bauzil (or Bauziel)
watercolour, 1812-1816
NPG 308
John Arthur Douglas Bloomfield, 2nd Baron Bloomfield
by Sir Thomas Lawrence
oil on canvas, 1819
NPG 1408
by Joseph Severn
oil on canvas, 1821-1823
NPG 58
Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux
by Sir Thomas Lawrence
oil on panel, 1825
On display in Room 18 on Floor 3 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 3136
by Laurence Theweneti
watercolour and pencil, 1825
NPG 3125
by Daniel Maclise
pencil and watercolour, 1830
NPG 5513
King George IV ('A voluptuary under the horrors of digestion')
by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured stipple, published 2 July 1792
NPG D12460
' - "All Bond-Street trembled as he strode" - '
by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured etching, engraving and stipple, published 8 May 1802
NPG D12790
Votaries of Fashion. St. James's. Lord Petersham, etc. (Charles Stanhope, 4th Earl of Harrington)
by Joseph Grego
hand-coloured lithograph, published 1892
NPG D9331