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William Makepeace Thackeray

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William Makepeace Thackeray, by Joseph Durham, 1864 -NPG 495 - © National Portrait Gallery, London

© National Portrait Gallery, London

Early Victorian Portraits Catalogue

William Makepeace Thackeray

by Joseph Durham
1864
33 in. (838 mm) high
NPG 495

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Incised on the back: J. Durham Sc./1864

This portraitback to top

Closely related to the marble bust of Thackeray by Durham at the Garrick Club, London, which is also dated 1864.

Referenceback to top

Kitton 1891
F. G. Kitton, 'The Portraits of Thackeray', Magazine of Art (1891), p 293.

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H. Graves & Co, presented by them, 1878.

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F. G. Kitton, 'The Portraits of Thackeray', Magazine of Art (1891), p 295.


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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