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Rowland Hill

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Rowland Hill, by Lucius Gahagan Sr, circa 1828 -NPG 1401 - © National Portrait Gallery, London

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Mid-Georgian Portraits Catalogue

Rowland Hill

possibly by Lucius Gahagan Sr
circa 1828
20 in. (508 mm) high
NPG 1401

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A slight, posthumous image, probably modelled from the engraving by H. Robinson after S. M. Smith (see NPG 5397). ‘Vigo of High Holborn’ [A. L. Vago?], or the antiquary John Smith have previously been suggested as the modeller. [1]

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1) Anon. [probably c.1910] note, and conversation of John Smith’s grandson with C. K. Adams, 6 December 1940; both NPG archive.

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George Pool;1 bought Draper; his son, Francis Draper, by whom presented 1905.2

1 Of 77b Great Queen St., London.
2 Francis Draper was the framemaker for the NPG; the provenance as given by him in a letter of 13 June 1905 (NPG archive).


This extended catalogue entry is from the out-of-print National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue: John Ingamells, National Portrait Gallery: Mid-Georgian Portraits 1760-1790, National Portrait Gallery, 2004, 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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