Nicholas Patrick Stephen Wiseman

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Inscribed on an old-looking label, formerly on the back of the frame: Cardinal Wiseman/By/Richard Doyle

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This drawing is not unlike H. E. Doyle's style (it is quite untypical of Richard Doyle's work), and the label may well have confused the two artists. There are old damage marks on the drawing, on the right cuff, on the mitre at the right, and the scoured lines lower left and centre. For another drawing by H. E. Doyle see NPG 4237, and for one attributed to R. Doyle see NPG 4619. A water colour by H. E. Doyle of 1858 is in the Irish NPG, possibly that exhibited RA, 1858 (794) and Dublin Exhibition, 1872, 'Portraits' (425), lent by the artist. Two drawings said to be by Richard Doyle are in a scrapbook owned by the Earl of Wemyss.

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Presented by Cardinal Bourne, Archbishop of Westminster, 1924.


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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