William Makepeace Thackeray

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The copy by Thackeray for the Orphan of Pimlico is in the Harvard University Library. Maclise drew Thackeray on several occasions, and was friendly with him for a number of years; both men contributed to Fraser's Magazine.

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The sitter; by descent to his granddaughter, Mrs Richard Thackeray Fuller, and bequeathed by her, 1961.

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Thackeray Centenary Exhibition, Prince's Gallery, Piccadilly, May 1911.

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W. M. Thackeray, The Orphan of Pimlico, frontispiece, after a copy by Thackeray.


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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