John Laird

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Inscribed (top left): John Laird MP.

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In a letter of 5 December 1933 (NPG archives), the donor recorded that his father, who wrote the inscription, lived at 88 St James's Street in the early 1870s; from the apparent age of the sitter, the drawing would seem to have been executed around 1872.

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G. S. Bowles, presented by him, 1934.


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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