Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall)

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Incised on the front of the base: BARRY CORNWALL

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Bequeathed at the same time as the portrait of Adelaide Procter (see NPG 789). Procter's bust may have some connection with his monument by J. H. Foley, listed by W. G. Strickland, Dictionary of Irish Artists (1913), I, 363.

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The sitter, bequeathed by his widow, Mrs Anne Procter, 1888.


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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