William Robertson

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Incised on the truncation: WILL.ROBERTSON D.D./1791/Tassie F

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Gray 1894
J. M. Gray , James and William Tassie, a biographical and critical sketch with a catalogue of their portrait medallions of modern personages, 1894, no.329.

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Christie’s, 27 February 1985, lot 30, bought Leggatt for the NPG.

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By W. Ridley 1802 (European Mag.), C. Picart, from a drawing by John Jackson, 1811 (D. Stewart, Biographical Memoirs).


This extended catalogue entry is from the out-of-print National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue: John Ingamells, National Portrait Gallery: Mid-Georgian Portraits 1760-1790, National Portrait Gallery, 2004, 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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