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William Holl Jr
1 of 4 portraits by T.W. Harland
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Early Victorian Portraits Catalogue
William Holl Jr
by T.W. Harland
1830
8 in. x 6 3/4 in. (203 mm x 171 mm)
NPG 2913
This portraitback to top
The artist is presumably identical with T. W. Harland who exhibited a number of portrait drawings at the RA, 1832-54, including one in 1846 of H. Holl of the Haymarket Theatre (possibly a relative). Thieme-Becker suggests that T. W. Harland might be identical with John Whitfield Harland who published a Manual of Shading Instruction (1870). This seems unlikely, unless the Royal Academy catalogues mispelt Harland's first initial. The initial of the signature of the NPG drawing has sometimes been read as 'J'. No other portraits of Holl are recorded. The donors also presented a portrait of William Holl the elder (NPG 2912).
Provenanceback to top
By descent to the sitter's daughter, Mrs E. Holl, and presented by her and her daughter Mrs M. Baker, 1937.
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.