Portraits in disguise - NPG 940
Edward William Lane
by Richard James Lane
1829
NPG 940
This is another example of an Arabic scholar in Arab dress. Lane (1801-76) was one of the leading Arabists in Europe. He made voyages up the Nile in 1826 and 1827, and studied the people of Cairo from 1833-5, adopting local dress (as Richard Burton was to when he made the pilgrimage to Mecca in 1853). He published The Manners and Customs of the Modern Egypt in 1836. On his right hand he retains his signet ring, a curiously European reference within the portrait.
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Edward
Lane as an Arabic Scholar
by Richard James Lane, 1829 |
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Henry Brougham, 1st Baron
Brougham amd Vaux
by Sir Thomas Lawrence, 1825
NPG 3136 (Detail)
The fronts of this black morning coat have been squared off. The roll collar is cut high at the back and the lapels have the fashionable 'M' notch. Round his neck he wears a silk stock.
