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Samuel Wilberforce

6 of 84 portraits of Samuel Wilberforce

Samuel Wilberforce, by Carlo Pellegrini, published in Vanity Fair 24 July 1869 -NPG 1993 - © National Portrait Gallery, London

© National Portrait Gallery, London

Early Victorian Portraits Catalogue

Samuel Wilberforce

by Carlo Pellegrini
published in Vanity Fair 24 July 1869
12 in. x 7 1/8 in. (305 mm x 181 mm)
NPG 1993

Inscriptionback to top

Signed (lower right): Ape

This portraitback to top

This is one of a large collection of original water-colour portraits for Vanity Fair. The water-colour of Wilberforce was published as a coloured lithograph (in reverse) in Vanity Fair, 24 July 1869, as 'Statesmen, No. 25/"Not a brawler".'

Physical descriptionback to top

Brown hair, blue eyes. Dressed in black and white clerical robes, with a blue ribbon round his neck.

Provenanceback to top

Charles Newman, purchased from him, 1923.


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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