Joseph Severn

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Signed and dated (lower right): J. Partridge/Nov 1825/Rome.
Inscribed in pencil on the reverse: Mrs Westmacott.

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Although the features are not dissimilar from those in authentic portraits of Severn, the face as a whole is too thin to be confidently identified as his. Mrs Westmacott's name appears on the back of another drawing in the Partridge sketch-book.

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Purchased from the artist's collateral descendant, Mrs Ursula Richmond, 1955.


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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