Sir John Bowring

Inscriptionback to top

Incised (left rim): JOHN BOWRING and (bottom centre): P. D. David/1832

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According to Webber (letter in NPG archives), this medallion was cast in the Paris foundry of L. Richard. Cust also presented a medallion of Amelia Opie (NPG 1081), and purchased for himself the medallions of Canning, Brunel, Byron, Flaxman, Franklin, Ross, Admiral Smith, Leader and Lord Rivers. Bowring owned the marble bust of Bentham by P. David D'Angers, exhibited RA, 1829 (1180). Another cast of the NPG medallion is in the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Angers.

Referenceback to top

Gunnis 1953
R. Gunnis, Dictionary of British Sculptors (1953), p 121.

Provenanceback to top

L. Richard; his son-in-law; F. P. Webber; Sir Lionel Cust, presented by him, 1897.


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.

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