Adelaide Anne ('Mary Berick') Procter

Inscriptionback to top

Signed (lower right): E. G. R.

This portraitback to top

A woodcut by C. D. Mitton, after the painting, was published 1882 (example in NPG), for Legends and Lyrics: a book of Verses by Adelaide Procter (1882 edition). The NPG picture was bequeathed at the same time as the portrait of Bryan Procter (see NPG 788).

Physical descriptionback to top

Pale complexion, greenish eyes, brown hair. Dressed in a black costume, trimmed with red, and with red tassels, wearing various gold rings. Background colour brown.

Provenanceback to top

Bryan Procter, the sitter's father, bequeathed by his widow, Mrs Anne Procter, 1888.

Exhibitionsback to top

SKM, 1868 (605).


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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